Springtime is the perfect time to visit our area! With the International Museum of Photography (George Eastman House), local wineries, and parks of the Finger Lakes, there’s a wealth of activities coming alive in Upstate New York! 

Check out our Second Quarter Newsletter and see why business is looking so bright for Optimax and our customers! Here are a few items of special note:

For the latest on Optimax, please visit Optimax Systems Web Site regularly.

Best Regards,

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Defense & Security Symposium
(formerly AeroSense)

It’s time to make your plans to attend SPIE’s premier Defense & Security Symposium (formerly AeroSense), which will be held at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center, April 12-16 in Orlando (Kissimmee), FL. 

Defense & Security will link you with individuals and companies who are leading the world in threat detection, surveillance and scanning, airport security, emergency response, law enforcement and more…basically all technologies that are currently supporting homeland defense.

Optimax will be located in Booth #619 with Rick Plympton available to discuss your custom optics requirements.

For more information regarding this important symposium, visit the following web site:

http://spie.org/conferences/programs/04/or

We look forward to seeing you at Defense & Security in April!

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Optimax Is Going to Mercury!

While NASA is celebrating its successful landing of the two Mars Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) in January, a new Mission on the horizon that will capture everyone’s attention in mid-2004 - Mercury MESSENGER!

MESSENGER is a MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and
 Ranging mission to orbit the planet Mercury, and photograph the planet's
 surface through Optimax lenses. The mission is designed to scientifically
 investigate Mercury and as a result, better understand the terrestrial planets
 and their evolution. Unlike the Mariner 10 mission in 1974-75, when only 45%
 of the planet’s surface was imaged, MESSENGER will be tasked to map the entire surface of Mercury through multiple flybys.

Optimax lenses are installed on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), which is one of the components on MESSENGER. This instrument consists of wide-angle and narrow-angle imagers that will map landforms, track variations in surface spectra and gather topographic information. A pivot platform will help point it in whatever direction the scientists choose. The two instruments will enable MESSENGER to “see” in the same way human eyes observe.

The scheduled launch date is May 2004 and the best place to obtain mission updates is http://messenger.jhuapl.edu (click on “The Mission”, then “Mission Design” for the latest schedule).

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Optimax Employee Profile…
Tom Kelly – Controller

Tom Kelly, our Controller, joined Optimax in May 2001. His previous professional position was a Partner with a large, regional certified public accounting firm located in Rochester, New York. Over his twenty-five year career with this firm, Tom served many Not-For-Profit, Retail and Manufacturing clients. In addition, Tom served as the firm’s IT leader. He is a 1975 graduate from St. John Fisher College with a BS degree in Accounting. Tom is a lifetime resident of Rochester, New York. 

Tom married his high school sweetheart, Chris. They have three children, ranging in age from 15 to 22 years old.

Golf is a summer-time passion; his goal is to get his handicap down a couple of strokes, to 17 this year. In the fall and winter he enjoys watching the Buffalo Bills and downhill skiing. He also enjoys cooking for his family and recently started hiking with Chris. Tom is also a volunteer driver for a senior citizen program at his church.

When asked about his work experiences, Tom comments that “seeing a manufacturing company from the inside has been enlightening. Observing the day to day challenges of a progressive and technologically innovative company like Optimax, seeing the successes (and failures), and assisting management in positioning Optimax as the premier provider of prototype optics has made my time here tremendously rewarding both professionally and personally.” 

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Special Testing Requirements…

Our customers have shown increased requirements for the following:

• Material Certification
• Radius of curvature
• Interferograms for surface figure < 0.1 wave
• Interferometric Testing of Aspheres
• Surface Roughness
• Environmental
• Laser damage testing

Optimax would like to address your requests at the quoting stage to ensure that all of your requirements are fulfilled. We have added a section to our web site which simplifies testing requirements, with three standard options and special testing identified seperately.

http://www.optimaxsi.com/Sales/InspectionDataOptions/InspectionDataOptions.htm

If you have any questions regarding the supply of data, please feel free to contact us or visit our website at www.optimaxsi.com.

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Message of Hope…

Economic adversity has certainly presented challenging times over the past few years. Optimax would like to offer a short inspirational Message of Hope courtesy of Rick Plympton’s 9-month old daughter, Cecelia.

http://www.optimaxsi.com/Corporate/Newsletters/2004_Q2/Hope.ppt (507KB, PowerPoint) 

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