Ondax Enters into a Licensing Agreement with PD-LD to Strengthen IP Portfolio

Jan. 25, 2009 - PRLog -- Ondax, Inc, a world leader in the design and manufacture of volume holographic gratings (VHGs) and wavelength stabilized, semiconductor lasers for the consumer electronics, industrial, defense, and medical markets, announces that it has entered into a licensing agreement with PD-LD Inc.

In addition to the 9 issued patents and 20 patent applications pending that Ondax currently holds, customer applications are now protected by several of PD-LD’s U.S. and foreign patents including U.S. Patent Nos. 7,298,771, 7,397,837, 7,248,617, 7,477,818, 7,248,618, 7,125,632, 7,031,573, 7,273,683, 7,391,703, when purchasing VHGs or lasers from Ondax.

“This new licensing agreement solidifies the protection of our intellectual property portfolio in our core technology of volume holographic gratings and their applications and further strengthens our leadership in this field.” said Ondax President and CEO, Christophe Moser, Ph.D.

Dr. Moser went on to say “Our customers already know they are assured the highest quality and reproducibility from Ondax VHGs. They now also have the confidence of knowing Ondax has the complete IP portfolio to protect their applications when using Ondax products - whether used in high volume, consumer applications or low volume, defense applications.”

Ondax, Inc. has been manufacturing commercial VHGs since 2001. The Ondax PowerLocker™ is a volume holographic glass grating which diffracts a defined efficiency at a specific wavelength of light. The gratings increase spectral brightness of laser diodes, locking their wavelength and increasing temperature stability and yield. The PowerLocker™ VHG is available in wavelengths from 350nm to 3microns. Ondax also manufactures VHG-stabilized laser diodes at wavelengths from 403nm to 785nm for applications in Raman Spectroscopy, Flow Cytommetry, Bio Medical instrumentation, semiconductor material testing, etc. Ondax also conducts custom product development programs for its diverse customer base in commercial, medical, industrial, government, defense, and research applications.

For additional information contact:

Linda West
VP of Sales and Marketing
Ondax, Inc.
lwest@ondax.com
Tel. (626) 803-5724
Fax (626) 357-9321
www.ondax.com

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Leading manufacturer of Volume Holographic Gratings (VHG’s). Products include VHG’s, TO can and fiber coupled wavelength stabilized lasers, RGB filters, beam combiners, VHG fast axis collimators and single and multi-line spectral filters.