History

Holographix Timeline Jan25

Holographix and Headwall OEM capabilities make up the Optical Components & Assemblies business within the Headwall Group. Holographix and Headwall have decades of experience enabling customers to innovate, and a deep technology base in optics and photonics.

 

Headwall was founded in 1976 as American Holographic, specializing in original holographic gratings. Holographix was founded in 1985, specializing in replication technology. Both companies were acquired by major telecom companies in 2000 due to their deep technology base and ability to innovate. And both companies became independent again in 2003.

 

Holographix pursued a path of advancing the state of the art in replication technology, dramatically expanding the scope of capabilities while Headwall pursued higher levels of integration around gratings, optical assemblies, and optical modules around spectral measurement; and today uniquely deploys hyperspectral technology at scale.

2022

Holographix Becomes a Headwall Group Company
The Headwall Group of companies are focused on the development and sale of hyperspectral imaging products and technology for widespread use in markets such as remote sensing, industrial machine vision, and general research, as well as designing and manufacturing precision optical components and assemblies in volume to meet the needs of our OEM customers’ instrumentation for a variety of uses.

2019

Large Format Optical Coating Capability Added
Vacuum Process Technologies’ Citation 45 Precision Optical Coating System is installed and operational at Holographix.

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2018

ISO 9001: 2015 Certification Achieved
Holographix has successfully completed its certification audit conducted by NQA, and our quality management system is now officially compliant with the new ISO 9001:2015 standard.

2018

Holographix Moves to New State-of-the-art facility in Marlborough
The 15,000 square foot facility is equipped with 6 precision-controlled manufacturing rooms designed specifically to accommodate our substrate cleaning and UV replication processes. The new facility allows Holographix to better serve their growing customer base as the company continues to expand their manufacturing capacity to meet a growing demand for their custom products.

2017

Holographix Wins BAE Systems’ Gold Supplier Award
Holographix LLC, is presented with a BAE Systems’ 2017 Gold Supplier Award. BAE Systems’ Electronic Systems sector, based in Nashua, New Hampshire, presents this award to suppliers that consistently provide high quality, on-time delivery of cost-effective products. Holographix has successfully achieved the required performance with a 100% quality rating, and a 100% on-time delivery for 2017.

confocal Microscope

2017

Confocal Microscopy Capability Added
Keyence’s VK-X260K Violet Laser Confocal Microscope is installed to support Holographix’ growing custom microlens array business.

2016

Holographix Wins BAE Systems’ Product Innovation Award
Holographix LLC has been chosen by BAE Systems (UK) as the 2016 Product Innovation Award winner at their recent Electronics Systems Supplier Conference! This award was presented to Holographix in light of the numerous innovative solutions that Holographix has provided over the last 10 years while supporting the development and manufacture of BAESystems’ custom see-through optical waveguides for their LiteHUD® Head-Up Display (HUD)product, as well as their Q-Sight®/Q-Warrior® Helmet-Mounted Display (HMD)products.

2015

ISO 9001: 2008 Certification Achieved

Dicing Machine

2014

Wafer Dicing Capability Added

2014

Slanted Grating Manufacturing Capability Added
Holographix develops large area slanted grating capability using our proprietary polymers and Ion Milling process.

2013

Capability Added to Fabricate Custom Optics up to 350mm x 600mm in Size

2012

Wafer-level Defect Inspection Capability Added

2012

Holographix Expands to 12,500 Square Feet

2010

Holographix Enters Microlens Array (MLA) Market

2009

Holographix Achieves ITAR Registration
Holographix becomes ITAR registered with the United States government.

2009

Holographix Announces Blazed Grating Capability

2008

First Replicated Diffractive Waveguide Fabricated For HUD Application

2007

Holographix Expands With New Nano-Replication Labs
The addition of these labs increases capacity by 50% allowing the company to accommodate increasing demand for nano- and micro-structure replicated templates and finished products.

2006

First Replicated Diffractive Waveguide Fabricated For HMD Application

Illustrative Blazed Grating SEM Image

2004

Holographix Wins Long Term Supplier Contract
Newly formed Holographix LLC signs multi-million dollar production supply agreement with major manufacturer of life science instrumentation.

2003

Transmission Gratings Pass Telcordia Tests
Holographix announces the availability of replicated transmission gratings for use in telecom applications. High efficiency diffraction gratings that pass the demanding Telcordia (Bellcore) temperature and humidity testing requirement can be produced in OEM production quantities.

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2003

Headwall bought out by management​

2003

Company Re-acquired by Previous Management to Form Holographix LLC

2002

Thin-film Optical Coating Capability Added
A new Denton Infinity22 boxcoater with both thermal and ebeam evaporation, and ion assist is installed at Avanex’ Hudson Facility.

2001

ISO 9001 Certification Achieved
Avanex’ Hudson facility’s quality management system is now officially compliant with the ISO 9001 standard.

2000

Holographix, Inc. is Acquired by Avanex Corp.
The acquisition of Holographix is of great strategic importance to Avanex vision of significantly reducing the cost per wavelength for service providers. “This partnership with the leading developer of photonic processors gives us the opportunity to leverage the technological assets at Avanex to develop next-generation products,” said David Rowe, President of Holographix.

2000

American Holographics acquired by Agilent

1999

Holographix Announces Mirror Replication Services
Replication minimizes system cost, reduces weight of the final component, and significantly simplifies system design by eliminating glass mirrors and placing the mirror surface directly onto the metal mount.

1997

Holographix Announces Grating Replication Services
Holographix announces grating replication services based on technology developed to lower cost of scanning devices.

1991

Holographix, Inc. Moves to 5,000 Square Foot Facility in Hudson, MA

Holographix Logo 1985

1985

Holographix, Inc. Is Incorporated
The original corporation, Holographix, Inc., is founded to develop and produce custom holographic-based scanning solutions.

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1976

American Holographics Founded