The Story of Semrock

Semrock was founded in September 2000 by Victor Mizrahi and Turan Erdogan. It was one of the many venture capital-funded start-ups that emerged during the telecom bubble. At that time, the venture capital community was eager to invest in telecom, so Mizrahi and Erdogan received rapid funding. The money was used to purchase state-of-the-art ion-beam-sputtering (IBS) deposition equipment—the technology of choice for making sophisticated dense wavelength division multiplexing thin-film filters—and to hire good people. Learn how our optical filters team has evolved over the years in the article below.