PG&O Videos

1. PG&O Capabilities Video 3/27/2024

   Explore PG&O's precision optical fabrication services: scribing, cutting, machining, grinding, polishing, coating, and more. High-quality, cost-effective solutions tailored to your needs.

2. Maximizing Capabilities And Throughput Without Compromising Quality 1/31/2024

   Dan Bukaty Jr., President of Precision Glass and Optics, provided an update on the company's latest advancements, such as repolishing services and equipment that will bring new levels of throughput to its services.

3. PG&O Expanded IR Optical Materials And Capabilities 2/6/2019

   PG&O introduces new IR optical products and capabilities at Photonics West 2019. These new materials are composed of finished infrared optical components and current with potential applications in biomedical, night vision, military/defense, etc. markets.

4. Product Video: Thin Film Coating Capabilities 1/31/2018

   This year at Photonics West, Dan Bukaty Jr. with PG&O discussed his company’s thin film coating capabilities. Watch the video to learn about their ability to coat large optics (up to 600mm in diameter), as well as a new system that allows them to monitor optical coatings in real-time, which ensures individual layer index accuracy, and the ability to measure layer thickness down to 1nm.

5. Product Video: Achieving High Performance And Cost Effective Solutions In Optical Fabrication 2/1/2017

   This year at Photonics West, Dan Bukaty with PG&O (Precision Glass & Optics) talked to us about how over 100 years of collective engineering experience at his organization has been leveraged to deliver high performance optics without breaking the bank.

6. Over 100 Years In Optics Experience 2/18/2016

   At 2016’s Photonics West exhibition, Dan Bukaty talked to us about Precision Glass & Optics’ (PG&O) view on partnering with their customers.

7. BOROFLOAT® & Optical Mirrors Video 6/19/2015

   BOROFLOAT®, the world’s first borosilicate glass by SCHOTT, has become one of the most influential specialty glass materials with its thermal stability, superior surface quality, and remarkably high transmission for utilization in research applications such as its implementation in the Hobby Eberly Telescope.

8. You Can Still Buy American 2/12/2015

   At Photonics West this year, Dan Bukaty Jr. with Precision Glass & Optics (PG&O) spoke with us about the misconception of Asian manufacturers being both faster and less expensive than their American counterparts. If you’re looking for plain or coated optics or high-volume scribing technology from a U.S. based manufacturer, look no further.

9. Full Line Of Polarizing Beamsplitters For High-Power Laser Applications 8/20/2014

   At Optics and Photonics 2014, PG&O’s president Dan Bukaty, Jr. met with Photonics Online to discuss his company’s line of polarizing beamsplitters with extinction ratios of up to 1000:1 and a laser damage threshold up to 12 megajoules per cm/2.

10. Thin Film Coatings And Optical Assemblies 2/10/2014

    Dan Bukaty, president of Precision Glass and Optics (PG&O) offers up some information on his company’s thin film coating capabilities and optical assemblies. PG&O’s optical solutions are used in a wide variety of applications – from mission critical aerospace and defense systems, to biomedical and display applications.