Boulder, CO – January 25, 2007 – ColorLink, a leading supplier of polarization and color management optics for the consumer electronics industry today announced the release of ALPS™, a solid state switchable polarizer for the 3D projection market. 

The product will be launched at the 2007 Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Conference which will take place at the San Jose Convention center.  The conference is to be held on the 28th through the 31st and uses ALPS to showcase the conference’s 3D content.  ColorLink’s CTO, Gary Sharp will present a technical paper on ALPS on Tuesday, Jan. 30th at 4:20pm.

ALPS is a high transmission single-pixel optical device that attaches to existing digital projectors.  They mount externally to the front end of the projection lens.  Very simple electronics synchronize the projector with ALPS.  They have an added feature that enables users to modify the ALPS output to match any of the existing polarized-eyewear formats.  This functionality is crucial to system integrators who in many cases have to adapt to existing eyewear currently in use at a particular location. 

ColorLink’s Product Development Engineer, John Korah summarized, “ALPS addresses two important issues facing the 3D projection market.  First, the use of a single projector instead of the usual two projectors and secondly, it allows users to select a performance level that matches the application.  This versatility will provide a significant cost advantage as ALPS finds application ranging from theme park style 3D entertainment to high-end 3D visualization for the industrial and scientific community.”  

With its rapid switching, high contrast, zero loss in resolution and a color balanced performance, ALPS enable a multitude of 3D configurations and will further expand the penetration of 3D projection displays. 

About ColorLink®
ColorLink, Inc. is a privately held photonics company based in Boulder, Colorado.  ColorLink is engaged in the design, manufacture and licensing of color management components, polarization optics and optical systems.  Key Markets include digital projection systems, data storage and retrieval systems and digital image capture.  ColorLink products may be found in color monitors, high-definition televisions and data projectors using high-resolution micro displays, CD/DVD players, HD-DVD and Blu-ray DVD players, digital cameras, gaming consoles as well as 3D projectors and monitors.  ColorLink also provides research and development support to system integrators.  High volume manufacturing is supported by our subsidiary ColorLink Japan, Ltd., based in Joetsu City, Japan.

Boulder, CO – September 28, 2006 – ColorLink, a technology-driven photonics company, announces the hiring of Jill Thomassian as Vice President of Operations. Her experience includes 13 years in high-volume manufacturing systems design and development.  During the course of her career, Jill has been directly responsible for the startup and ramp-up of numerous products and the development of their associated manufacturing facilities and tooling. In her new position at ColorLink, Jill will be responsible for manufacturing development and production operations at ColorLink’s Boulder facility.

Jill comes to ColorLink from Microfabrica, a high-tech MEMS start-up company. While at Microfabrica, Jill was responsible for the facility and equipment infrastructure required for development of the patented EFAB™ microdevice manufacturing process. In the mid 1990s, Jill served as Program Manager at ATS-Oregon where she managed the design, integration, and profitability of system integration projects for the semiconductor, optics and LCoS industries. Jill began her career at Hewlett-Packard as a Manufacturing Development Engineer in charge of the technology transfer of manufacturing lines to Asia and the implementation of ISO 9001 manufacturing process controls.

Jill holds a MBA from the University of Southern California and an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Her thesis work was on developing automated control algorithms for the 3D Printing Rapid-Prototyping Process.  

About ColorLink, Inc. ®
ColorLink, Inc. is a privately held photonics company based in Boulder, Colorado.  ColorLink is engaged in the design, manufacture and licensing of color management components, polarization optics and optical systems.  Key Markets include digital projection systems, data storage and retrieval systems and digital image capture.  ColorLink products may be found in color monitors, high-definition televisions and data projectors using high-resolution micro displays, CD/DVD players, HD-DVD and Blu-ray DVD players, digital cameras, gaming consoles as well as 3D projectors and monitors.  ColorLink also provides research and development support to system integrators.  High volume state-of-the-art manufacturing is supported by our subsidiary ColorLink Japan, Ltd., based in Joetsu City, Japan.

Boulder, CO – September 12, 2006 – ColorLink, a leading supplier of polarization and color management optics announced today that its US Patent No. 7,106,509 for a new technology used to enhance vision has been issued. ColorCorrect® looks to change the world of sunglasses.

ColorCorrect® consists of a retarder film based filter that is sandwiched between two polarizers.  One version is a triple bandpass filter that only allows the transmission of the three colors – red, green, and blue – which enhances color and contrast.  ColorCorrect is ideally suited for improving vision in sports eyewear, sunglasses and ski goggles especially in low light and flat light conditions.  The filter can be designed to enhance specific regions of the visible spectrum to improve vision performance for specific sports such as tennis, baseball, golf, etc.  The ability to see for example a yellow tennis ball when tossed in the air or a white baseball on a cloudy day is dramatically improved by wearing ColorCorrect sunglasses.  With other color enhancement technology such as dyes or rare earth elements, there are only a limited number of spectral designs that can be achieved.  Essentially any spectral response can be designed using ColorCorrect and it can be used to improve color vision deficiency.  The filter itself is made using polycarbonate film which unlike rare earth doped glass is impact resistant.  

ColorLink looks to have this technology available to consumers in the next year. 

About ColorLink, Inc. ®
ColorLink, Inc. is a privately held photonics company based in Boulder, Colorado.  ColorLink is engaged in the design, manufacture and licensing of color management components, polarization optics and optical systems.  Key Markets include digital projection systems, data storage and retrieval systems and digital image capture.  ColorLink products may be found in color monitors, high-definition televisions and data projectors using high-resolution micro displays, CD/DVD players, HD-DVD and Blu-ray DVD players, digital cameras, gaming consoles as well as 3D projectors and monitors.  ColorLink also provides research and development support to system integrators.  High volume state-of-the-art manufacturing is supported by our subsidiary ColorLink Japan, Ltd., based in Joetsu City, Japan.

Boulder, CO – August 17, 2006 – ColorLink, a leading supplier of polarization and color management optics for the consumer electronics industry today announced the release of SnapWave™, a solid state switchable color filter for the digital image capture market.   SnapWave equipped cameras will capture a noticeably wider array of colors with no loss in resolution.   

SnapWave can mount on to the front end of existing cameras with some simple electronics for synchronization to the camera shutter.  SnapWave can be designed to convert black and white cameras into color or enhance the performance of existing color cameras through the principle of spectral-division and find immediate application where color fidelity is critical such as e-commerce, medical imaging and machine vision. 

ColorLink’s Product Development Manager, John Korah explained, “ColorLink’s SnapWave is a commercially viable solution to color enhancement that addresses the limitations of the incumbent technologies and fits in a package that satisfies almost all cameras”.     SnapWave Specifications read more

About ColorLink®
ColorLink, Inc. is a privately held photonics company based in Boulder, Colorado.  ColorLink is engaged in the design, manufacture and licensing of color management components, polarization optics and optical systems.  Key Markets include digital projection systems, data storage and retrieval systems and digital image capture.  ColorLink products may be found in color monitors, high-definition televisions and data projectors using high-resolution micro displays, CD/DVD players, HD-DVD and Blu-ray DVD players, digital cameras, gaming consoles as well as 3D projectors and monitors.  ColorLink also provides research and development support to system integrators.  High volume state-of-the-art manufacturing is supported by our subsidiary ColorLink Japan, Ltd., based in Joetsu City, Japan.

Boulder, CO - July 12, 2006 – ColorLink, a technology-driven photonics company, hires Dr. Miller Schuck, PhD as Sr. Staff Scientist.  Dr. Schuck brings almost 10 years of experience in illumination, imaging and non-imaging optics for projection and near-to-eye (NTE) applications.  In his new position at ColorLink, Miller will develop optics for backlights and projection displays utilizing lamp, LED, and laser sources.  In addition, Miller will support 3-D and auto-stereoscopic display research and development, and support the specific optical needs of ColorLink projection customers.

Dr. Schuck holds a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado where he researched liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) devices for automotive head-up display applications.  In the early 1990’s, he was employed at Ford Motor Company’s Scientific Research Laboratories and developed networking for intelligent vehicle applications.   During the late 1990’s, Miller was an integral part of LCOS startup Colorado MicroDisplay, Inc., developing optical engines for NTE applications including HMD’s and camera viewfinders.  He researched specialty lenses for holographic data storage at InPhase Technologies, and most recently, worked several years at Brillian Corporation leading NTE optical engine efforts and playing an integral role in the development of projection lenses and lamp- and LED-based illumination systems for LCOS RPTV products.  Dr. Schuck has 7 issued patents and over 20 publications and conference presentations.

About ColorLink, Inc. ®
ColorLink, Inc. is a privately held photonics company based in Boulder, Colorado.  ColorLink is engaged in the design, manufacture and licensing of color management components, polarization optics and optical systems.  Key Markets include digital projection systems, data storage and retrieval systems and digital image capture.  ColorLink products may be found in color monitors, high-definition televisions and data projectors using high-resolution micro displays, CD/DVD players, HD-DVD and Blu-ray DVD players, digital cameras, gaming consoles as well as 3D projectors and monitors.  ColorLink also provides research and development support to system integrators.  High volume state-of-the-art manufacturing is supported by our subsidiary ColorLink Japan, Ltd., based in Joetsu City, Japan.

Boulder, CO – April 14, 2006 - ColorLink now makes available an inexpensive 3-D monitor for stereoscopic viewing.  Users will be able to switch between normal 2-D and 3-D viewing with a push of a button.  3-D visualization has been typically limited to engineers and scientists because of cost.  Consumers and especially gamers will find the price of this new monitor to be affordable enough to add 3-D viewing to their desktop at work and home.  Most video games currently available on the market are already enabled to be viewed in exciting 3-D.  Until now what has been missing is an inexpensive display.    This 17-inch diagonal monitor with SXGA resolution offers superior image brightness and clarity in both 2-D and 3-D modes.

ColorLink’s President, Leo Bannon, stated, “We hope by providing an inexpensive 3-D monitor more consumers will be able to take advantage of the thrilling aspect of 3-D.  The recent success of 3-D movies such as Polar Express and Chicken Little shows consumers are interested in 3-D again.  The red and blue glasses of the past have been replaced with circularly polarized glasses that eliminate eyestrain and fatigue.”

Set-up of the monitor is simple and only requires a computer with a stereo-ready graphics card and driver such as the nVidia Quadro FX series.  3-D Desktop Monitor Specifications read more

About ColorLink, Inc. ®
ColorLink, Inc. is a privately held photonics company based in Boulder, Colorado.  ColorLink is engaged in the design, manufacture and licensing of color management components, polarization optics and optical systems.  Key Markets include digital projection systems, data storage and retrieval systems and digital image capture.  ColorLink products may be found in color monitors, high-definition televisions and data projectors using high-resolution micro displays, CD/DVD players, HD-DVD and Blu-ray DVD players, digital cameras, gaming consoles as well as 3D projectors and monitors.  ColorLink also provides research and development support to system integrators.  High volume state-of-the-art manufacturing is supported by our subsidiary ColorLink Japan, Ltd., based in Joetsu City, Japan.