Company Facilities/Capabilities: Company History and Products
EOT is a privately held company founded in Fremont, CA. in 1987 by its current President, David Scerbak. Prior to founding EOT, David co-founded Lightwave Electronics and worked at Quanta-Ray. In 1992, EOT moved to its operations to Traverse City, MI. EOT is involved in the development and manufacture of Faraday rotators and isolators as well as photodetectors. Many of the manufacturers of scientific and industrial laser systems utilize EOT's Faraday rotators/isolators as integral components in their laser systems. Likewise, many laser manufacturers and prestigious research centers use EOT's photodetectors to monitor the output of their lasers.

EOT recently moved into its new facility at 5835 Shugart Lane in Traverse City. This facility has 15,000 square feet dedicated exclusively to the development and manufacturing of EOT's products. Some of the features of this facility are:

Production and Q.C. Optical Assembly
Over 3,000 square feet of space is dedicated exclusively to optical assembly. Included in this space are Class 100 and Class 1000 clean rooms. The optical assembly area features 6 Optomate Drilled Granite Optical Tables and 3 laminar flow benches for optical test and alignment. The Optomate tables have lasers, HEPA filtration, computer data capture, power meters, translation stages, wave plates and all other necessary components required for the alignment and testing of Faraday rotators and isolators.

Optical Inspection
EOT has a room dedicated to the inspection of incoming optics. This room contains an interferometer for testing of wavefront distortion, a Zygo profilometer for the 3D testing of surface quality, a microscope used to inspect for optical imperfections and a laminar flow bench.

Magnet-mechanical assembly
EOT has a Magnetic Instrumentation Model 7500/900-8I magnetizer, an arbor press, bandsaws, lathes, a Unitek Miyachi laser welder, a Bridgeport milling machine and parts cleaning stations.

Detector assembly and test
EOT has single frequency diode pumped lasers from CrystaLaser, Hewlett Packard digitizing oscilloscopes, a Rhode & Schwartz 26.5GHz spectrum analyzer, 8168F tunable lasers from Hewlett Packard, a diode pumped Q-switched diode pumped laser from Power Technologies, a die bonder from Cammax Precima, a wire bonder from WestBond, Genesys microwave design software, Autocad LT2004 and several support optics and nanopositioners.

Research and Development
EOT has a fiber lab, a high power laser lab and an optics lab. Equipment in these labs include two high power SDL fiber lasers, a high power Coherent CO2 laser, Metricon prism coupler, a Fujikara Arc Fusion Splicer, a Sumitomo Fusion Splicer, diode pumped Nd:YAG lasers, HeNe lasers, an Argon Ion laser, a monochrometer and an optical spectrum analyzer. EOT also has a number of software programs including Zemax, and software for magnetic modeling.