IMOS Technology Improves Scalability and Lowers Cost

Founded in 1991, Digital Optics Corporation began as a micro-optics developer and is now a leading supplier of diffractive and micro-optical components. In the late 1990s, Digital Optics recognized that the labor-intensive integration and packaging of its components in the optoelectronic industry was driving customer costs higher and was leading manufacturers to seek inexpensive, overseas labor to produce these components. In 1998, Digital Optics identified an innovative technology that had the potential to change the telecommunications, data storage, and scanner industries in many of the ways that the integrated circuit has changed computer electronics since 1959. The technology, called integrated micro-optical systems (IMOS), uses many of the same processes of reflective manufacturing to make miniature optoelectronic systems.