Holo/Or

Holo/Or is an Israeli high-technology company focused on the design, manufacture, and commercialization of diffractive optical elements, commonly abbreviated as DOEs. Its products modify, divide, homogenize, or otherwise control laser and other optical beams through precisely engineered diffractive surface structures. The company serves specialized applications rather than mass-market consumer optics, with products used in industrial laser processing, micromachining, materials treatment, medical laser systems, optical measurement, and other technically demanding environments. The company was founded in 1989 by Israel Grossinger, who had previously served as vice president of research and development at Indigo, a technology company later sold to Hewlett-Packard. At the time, diffractive optical elements were found primarily in research institutions. Grossinger identified an opportunity to turn the technology into commercially deployable optical components and established Holo/Or around that objective. The business therefore emerged at an early stage in the commercialization of DOE technology, when conventional refractive optics were still the dominant approach for many beam-control tasks. Holo/Or's first manufactured product was the Dual Wavelength Module, or DWM. It was proposed to Coherent Medical, a company active in medical laser systems, and became Holo/Or's first commercial partnership. The DWM was designed for systems using a carbon-dioxide laser together with a visible red aiming beam. Because the two wavelengths behave differently in conventional optical systems, they can experience chromatic and spherical aberrations and fail to converge at the same effective focal point. Holo/Or's diffractive lens brought the two beams together at a diffraction-limited focal point. The product is described as the world's first commercial DOE and continued to be used in surgical laser systems and Fourier-transform infrared systems. The company's product portfolio includes top-hat beam shapers, which transform a laser's native intensity profile into a more uniform distribution; high-power beam homogenizers and diffusers, which distribute optical energy more evenly; beam splitters and samplers for creating multiple spots or monitoring power; and vortex lenses, which generate beams with distinctive phase structures for applications including metal cutting and particle trapping. These products address recurring engineering requirements in laser manufacturing: controlling energy density, improving process uniformity, producing multiple simultaneous processing points, and integrating monitoring or aiming functions into compact optical systems. Beyond its standard product families, Holo/Or has recorded international patents connected with applications such as intraocular lenses, fundus cameras, hair-coloring diagnostics, optical guiding systems, portable scanners, and aesthetic laser treatment. This patent activity indicates that the company has applied diffractive design beyond industrial beam shaping, including ophthalmic, diagnostic, imaging, and medical-aesthetic technologies. The available reference material does not establish the company's current ownership, revenue, employee count, headquarters address, public listing, or detailed worldwide distribution structure. Holo/Or is best characterized as a specialized B2B optics and photonics brand whose identity is tied to the commercialization of DOE-based optical products.

Holo/Or was established in 1989 by Israel Grossinger to commercialize diffractive optical elements, a class of optical components that at the time was used mainly in research institutions. Grossinger's prior experience as vice president of research and development at Indigo helped inform the company's technology-commercialization strategy. Holo/Or was created to move DOE design and manufacturing into practical products for industrial and medical customers. The company's first manufactured product was the Dual Wavelength Module, developed for Coherent Medical. The module addressed a problem in laser systems that combine a carbon-dioxide processing laser with a visible red aiming beam. The different wavelengths can produce chromatic and spherical aberrations, making it difficult to bring both beams to the same precise focal location using ordinary refractive optics. Holo/Or's diffractive lens used a patterned optical surface to unite the beams at a diffraction-limited focal point. The product is identified in the reference material as the first commercial DOE and continued to find use in surgical laser systems and Fourier-transform infrared systems. From this initial medical-laser partnership, Holo/Or developed a broader portfolio of diffractive optical products. Its offerings came to include top-hat beam shapers for producing uniform laser intensity profiles, high-power homogenizers and diffusers for distributing optical energy, beam splitters and samplers for multi-spot processing and power measurement, and vortex lenses for specialized beam structures. The applications described for these products include industrial micromachining, materials processing, metal cutting, particle trapping, and laser-system monitoring. Holo/Or also pursued intellectual-property activity across several optical and biomedical fields. The company's international patents have been associated with intraocular lenses, fundus cameras, hair-coloring diagnostics, optical guiding systems, portable scanners, and aesthetic laser treatments. These areas show the breadth of the company's DOE expertise, extending from manufacturing equipment to ophthalmic devices, diagnostic imaging, and medical-aesthetic systems. The available source material provides limited information about later corporate developments. It does not document a public listing, acquisition, ownership change, financial results, leadership succession, or a specific current headquarters address. Accordingly, the documented history is centered on Holo/Or's founding, its pioneering commercial DWM product, the expansion of its DOE product families, and its patent activity in industrial and medical optics.

• 1989

  Holo/Or is founded

  [1]Holo/Oren.wikipedia.org

  Israel Grossinger founded Holo/Or to commercialize diffractive optical elements that had previously been concentrated largely in research environments.

• First Dual Wavelength Module is commercialized

  [1]Holo/Oren.wikipedia.org

  Holo/Or manufactured the Dual Wavelength Module for Coherent Medical, creating a diffractive solution for aligning carbon-dioxide laser and red aiming beams.

• DOE product portfolio expands

  [1]Holo/Oren.wikipedia.org

  The company developed product families including top-hat beam shapers, high-power homogenizers and diffusers, beam splitters and samplers, and vortex lenses.

• International patent activity broadens application scope

  [1]Holo/Oren.wikipedia.org

  Holo/Or recorded patents relating to ophthalmic, diagnostic, guiding, scanning, and aesthetic-laser applications.

A specialist photonics and optical-engineering company positioned around the commercial design and manufacture of diffractive optical elements for industrial, medical, diagnostic, and research applications.

• diffractive laser lens

  Dual Wavelength Module (DWM)

  The DWM was Holo/Or's first manufactured product and was proposed to Coherent Medical for medical laser applications. Its diffractive lens was designed to compensate for the different optical behavior of a carbon-dioxide laser and its visible red aiming beam, bringing the two wavelengths to a common diffraction-limited focal point. The technology was used in surgical laser systems and Fourier-transform infrared systems.

• laser beam shaping

  Top-hat beam shapers

  Top-hat beam shapers use diffractive optical design to convert a laser beam into a more uniform intensity profile. The resulting distribution can support consistent energy delivery across a working area, making the products relevant to industrial micromachining, materials processing, and other laser applications where process uniformity is important.

• laser beam homogenization

  High-power beam homogenizers and diffusers

  These optical elements redistribute laser energy to create a more even beam or illumination pattern while being intended for demanding, high-power environments. They are associated with industrial processing and other applications that require controlled power density and reduced spatial variation across the target area.

• beam management and monitoring

  Beam splitters and samplers

  Holo/Or's beam splitters and samplers divide an incident beam into multiple optical paths or controlled outputs. The reference material identifies multi-spot processing and power monitoring as key uses, allowing one laser source to support parallel processing points or measurement of beam power within an optical system.

• structured-light optics

  Vortex lenses

  Vortex lenses generate a structured optical field with a vortex-like phase profile. Holo/Or associates these products with metal-cutting applications and particle trapping, where the unusual beam geometry can provide specialized control of material interaction or microscopic objects.

1. 1Holo/Oren.wikipedia.org
2. 2Clinical Assessment of Holo-Or Trifocal Diffractive Contact Lensesjournals.lww.com
3. 3Objective and subjective assessment of a new diffractive trifocal contact lensdoi.org