Headquartered in Santa Ana, California, OptoSigma continues to provide the photonics industry with the finest laser grade optics, optical coatings and hardware to the domestic USA and over 20 international agents. The keys to their success are global manufacturing, consistent product performance and availability, price and delivery, and good old-fashioned customer service.

OptoSigma is part of the Sigma Koki Manufacturing Group of seven global manufacturing facilities. The company's primary manufacturing is done in Japan, while custom design work and global catalog component distribution is handled from Santa Ana, CA.

Company History
OptoSigma was founded in 1995 as a joint venture between several industry veterans and Japan-based parent company Sigma Koki. It was founded on the basic principle of providing the best service and product value in the industry. The company began modestly, with its first catalog in 1995 being 152 pages. Today, the 2006-2007 catalog, the company's fifth, is over 400 pages, with over 5000 products. The Santa Ana facility has the added value of custom thin film coating manufacturing with Ion-Assist Deposition and Advanced Plasma Source Ion-Assist Deposition, which produce dense, durable and very robust AR and HR coatings.

OptoSigma optics are fabricated at one of the seven facilities of Sigma Koki in Japan. Volume throughput and Japanese manufacturing techniques provide high quality, low-cost optics for most catalog and OEM applications.

OptoSigma Engineering Experts
Sr Mechanical engineer Clayton Summers, formerly of Melles Griot and Newport Corp, offers customer support to one who knows what he wants to achieve, but not exactly what equipment he needs to accomplish it. That may mean modification of an off-the-shelf product, or building a system together with the customer.

Andrew Clawson, formerly of OCLI - JDSU, is at the helm of the optical engineering and coatings departments. He has design capability, coating capability, and a fully competent optics-applications engineering background to offer OptoSigma customers.

An Industry Exclusive
OptoSigma's "secret weapon" for the past eight years, is its high-performance TSD extended contact stages, used for any precision application, such as positioning components in a laser path. Made of hardened tool steel and with very few moving parts, they are very low-profile, precise and rugged. The vacuum-compatible TSD stages, used in ultraclean environments — are vacuum-ready right out of the box. The micrometers have no paint — they come ready to go in vacuum chambers.

OptoSigma's ‘Specialty'
OptoSigma's specialty is its custom optical coatings. Manufactured within a class-1000 cleanroom designed for cleaning, loading, and inspecting optics both catalog or customer supplied, all components are carefully inspected before and after coating. This environment is virtually particulate-free. High performance coatings from 190 nm to 3 microns are provided in Ion-Assist Deposition chambers and Advanced Plasma Source Ion-Assist chambers.

OptoSigma is actively investing in its future to give the company greater visibility in the domestic US and international distribution by 2010.

"The philosophy behind the successful growth of our business has been communication. We pride ourselves on listening to what our customers ask for. There are many companies in our industry who think that they know what customers want and manufacture products only to find out that they missed the mark. Our philosophy is ... listen... and provide the customer with products that meet their requirements and needs. By providing people what they are asking for, we create a partnership that is long lasting and mutually beneficial."

— Steve McNamee, COO
OptoSigma Corporation

OptoSigma has the expertise, manufacturing resources and the desire to work closely to determine and provide product to the specifications necessary. The company's optical and mechanical engineers work with customers throughout the design, development, prototype and production process. We fully enjoy this unique experience each and every day.

Custom Optical Coatings