History
Established in 2009 and located just 30 minutes north of Denver in Longmont, Colorado, Perkins Precision Developments (PPD) is an innovative company with deep expertise in optical manufacturing. Our team brings together more than 100 years of combined experience in the photonics industry.
Our 12,600-square-foot facility includes a Class 10,000 clean room and is fully equipped for shaping, grinding, polishing, coating and assembly. This enables us to produce a wide range of precision optical components and assemblies in various shapes and sizes. All of our optics are manufactured and coated in-house, ensuring high quality and consistency.
We specialize in custom laser optics such as wedged windows, high energy laser mirrors, epoxy-free high LDT polarizing beam splitter cubes, spherical lenses, right-angle turning prisms and thin film plate polarizers for demanding applications in Directed Energy, Space-qualified Satellite Systems, Quantum Research and Industrial Materials Processing.
PPD’s in-house fabrication, super-polishing, IBS coating, and precision assembly capabilities allow us to deliver cutting-edge, high-performance solutions tailored to our customers’ exact specifications.
PPD also offers durable, dielectric, low-loss ion beam sputtering (IBS) coatings on customer-provided super-substrates. Our coating capabilities include high-reflective (HR), dual HR, anti-reflective (AR), broadband AR (BBAR), polarizing, dichroic, and other beam splitter coatings.
Whether you need a critical one-off prototype or high-volume OEM components, we’re ready to meet the challenge!
Leadership
Jay Perkins
Jay’s career in optics manufacturing and engineering management spans almost 50 years. His experience fabricating and coating precision optics includes 13 years as president of High Plains Optics in addition to time spent at other renowned optics companies such as Particle Measuring Systems and Meadowlark Optics.
Jay is a respected businessman and leader who is dedicated to establishing long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with his customers by providing innovative solutions, quality product and excellent customer service.
Emily Kubacki
Ms. Kubacki is responsible for PPD’s worldwide sales and marketing efforts. After receiving an optical engineering degree from the University of Rochester, Emily spent several years involved in optics manufacturing, including the fabrication and metrology for NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope mirrors.
She has over 30 years of combined experience in the engineering, sales and marketing of optical components and has published articles in industry magazines such as Photonics Spectra, Laser Focus World and Photonik.
Why Choose Perkins?
- CMMC 2.0 Level 2 Self-Assessed
- Consistent Quality
- In-house Manufacturing & Coating
- Production Flexibility
- Reliable Customer Service
- Customer Focused Solutions
- R & D Projects Welcome
- ITAR Compliant
- RoHS compliant
Markets Served
- OEM Laser Manufacturing
- Semiconductor Test & Measurement
- Industrial Materials Processing
- Space-qualified Satellite Optics
- Universities/Academia/Research
- Biomedical Instrumentation
- Aerospace /Directed Energy
- Quantum Science
Corporate Memberships
Society of photo- Optical instrumentation Engineers
Colorado Photonics Industry Association
Optical Society of America
