In December 2022, Wasatch Photonics has celebrated its 20th anniversary. Founded in 2002, the company designs and manufactures high efficiency transmission gratings for spectroscopy, optical coherence tomography (OCT), astronomy, and pulse compression, as well as spectrometers for OCT, Raman, and other spectroscopic techniques.

In twenty years, Wasatch Photonics has grown from a small shop started by a group of entrepreneur-innovators in Logan, Utah, to commercialize disruptive volume phase holographic (VPH) grating technology, establishing three sites across the US and a global distributor network. Along the way, we’ve patented several unique VPH grating technologies and developed a line of highly configurable modular spectrometers for OCT and Raman with industry-leading sensitivity and speed. Both the Logan, UT, and Morrisville, NC, manufacturing facilities are ISO 9001:2015 certified and are under upgrade or expansion.

Board chairman Lindsay Burton said, “Wasatch Photonics has a genuine positive impact on the world – I get such a thrill to hear our team talk about the applications. It’s amazing to be involved in cutting edge technology that couldn’t have been done ten to twenty years ago. We are doing some truly meaningful work, and it’s wonderful that so many of our team share that same motivation and vision. That makes our efforts collaborative, and it shows.”

“The company still has a lot of its original innovative spirit, in all aspects – from engineering to marketing,” says Doug Miller, one of the founders, “but now we’re a company that can design to a high spec, build it, and deploy it reliably.” No longer a start-up but a flourishing company, we’ve become like so many of our OEM customers – big enough to have an impact in the industry, but still small enough to care about each customer.

“As we look forward, we are focused on keeping our founding principle of innovation alive and using it to drive the most promising applications of Raman, OCT, and VPH gratings,” says CEO Dr David Creasey. “We continue to refine, optimize, and miniaturize our product lines to enable those next-generation devices in a way that both accelerates their development, and is scalable to volume for OEMs. There’s never been a more exciting time for the company.”