High Tech Top Employers

New Mexico is becoming well known as a 'high technology' state. High tech companies are well supported with a vast array of resources available though our two national laboratories and many research facilities.

'Gazelle' Companies

Metro New Mexico has a sizeable list of locally-grown high tech companies that more than doubled their employment and increased their revenues by 50% in the last three years.

• AgilOptics - Albuquerque; provides a cost-effective way to correct aberrations in laser beam quality
• Applied Technology Associates - Albuquerque; specializes in all aspects of precision sensing, measurement and controls
• CVI Laser LLC - Albuquerque; optical components and assemblies
  
• MZA Associates Corporation - Albuquerque; advanced solutions for a variety of technical problems

Source: The Albuquerque Journal Business Outlook 'Flying 40' 2007

Other Optics/Photonics Companies

Albuquerque

• Advanced Optics Electronics, Inc. - Development, production and sales of electronic flat panel displays
• Apogen Technologies - Leading provider of technology solutions in the federal marketplace
• Boeing-SVS Inc. - Lasers and electro-optical systems
• CIC Photonics, Inc. - Design and production of innovative analytical and industrial instrumentation and sampling systems
• Decade Optical Systems, Inc. - Research and development, design, assembly, and automated production of advanced high-power laser diode arrays, solid-state laser systems, and related components and subsystems
• E M Optomechanical, Inc - Provides metrology tools to the semiconductor and microsystems industries
• Emcore - Compound semiconductor solutions for the broadband and wireless communications and solid state lighting markets
• InLight Solutions, Inc. - Researches and develops sensor-based measurement systems for life science applications
• InSync, Inc. - Custom optical manufacturing company
• International Photonics Consultants - Research, development and testing of radiation hard nano- and macro- photonics for space applications
• Kestrel Corp. - High technology research and development company that is dedicated to technology transfer
• MK Photonics Inc. - Precision optics manufacturing and marketing company
• Optical Surface Tech - Specializes in manufacturing custom optical components
• Optisource, LLC - Provides waveplates, beamsplitters, polarizers and lenses
• Optomec, Inc. - Delivers additive manufacturing solutions for high-performance applications in the Electronics, Biomedical, and Aerospace & Defense markets
• Schafer Corporation - Albuquerque; Research, development, test and evaluation of technology applications
• TruTouch Technologies, Inc. - Laser-based noninvasive alcohol testing systems
• WaveFront Sciences, Inc.- Albuquerque; world leader in wavefront sensing metrology.

Rio Rancho

• Atlantic International Imaging - Experienced supplier of very high technology imaging and instrumentation products
• Senspex - Applied science and technology for Homeland Security and Defense.

Santa Fe

• Retriever Technology - Advanced digital imaging
• Santa Fe Energy Research - Hardware and software solutions and engineering consulting for the scientific and industrial clusters
• Southwest Sciences - Research and develop technology in combustion, atmospheric chemistry, imaging, and optical sciences.

Microsystems/MEMS Companies

Albuquerque

• Corning Willow - Assembles and programs optical switches for fiber optic networks
• GET Systems - Makes electroplating equipment to coat dust and smaller particles
• L&M Technologies - Microelectrics research and development
• MEMX, Inc. - Founded by former Sandia scientists with venture financing, a start-up which possesses the world's most advanced MEMS capability
• MesoSystems Technology, Inc. - Manufactures biological sampling devices
• NanoPore, Inc. - Makes porous surface materials for microelectronics and optics
• Qynergy Corp. - (Sandia-UNM spinoff) Develops power supplies for microsystems
• Radiant Technologies, Inc. - Ferroelectric film technologies and products
• Superior Micropowders, LLC - (UNM spinoff) Micro-grain powders with unique chemical properties
• SurFect - (GET spinoff) Coats small objects with metal.