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BaySpec Inc.: We Can Make It!
How does BaySpec’s business model provide for sustainable growth? By exploring and understanding new markets and manufacturing custom solutions for clients.
Volume phase holographic gratings.
BaySpec was established in the late 1990s when William Yang was asked to build a grating-based wavelength-division multiplexer-demultiplexer. The customer, Bell Laboratories, U.S.A., requested a large number of channels and performance in extreme temperatures without thermal compensation. For this challenge, Yang used highly-efficient volume phase holographic gratings (VPG), but building the device to withstand harsh environmental conditions was daunting. So he brought in a trusted friend and classmate, Charlie Zhang from the University of Waterloo in Canada, to help build the prototype. After satisfying Bell Labs, they founded BaySpec Inc. Within two years the company went from its humble beginnings in a Silicon Valley garage to holding 18 patents.
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