Tower Optical Corporation: Riding the Waveplates

Mel Kantor

Mel Kantor is not a scientist, but he knows a good tech business when he sees one. Here, he talks about his experience as leader of a Florida-based waveplate manufacturer.

 

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Tower Optical Corporation of Boynton Beach, Fla., U.S.A., is a leading manufacturer and distributor of waveplates (optics that manipulate the polarization of light) and other “build-to-spec” optics. I used this fundamental component of optical systems as a key building block of Tower’s success.

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