CVI Laser Marks 40th Anniversary
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sept. 3, 2012 — CVI Laser is marking 40 years of providing thin-film-enabled optical components and subsystems to the semiconductor, life sciences, industrial, aerospace and scientific markets. The company was founded in Albuquerque in 1972 to support high-energy laser development at Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories. During that decade, CVI entered the research and industrial optics markets, where its notable products included components for bar-code scanners. CVI also published one of the first...