Why Alluxa - Alluxa is an ISO 9001:2015 certified, ITAR registered manufacturer of high-performance optical filters and thin- ... film coatings. Alluxa has rapidly grown from a small startup to a world leader in precision thin films. Our engineering team has been instrumental in achieving this growth by refining our advanced SIRRUS™ Plasma Deposition process, designing and building our coating equipment, and dedicating a large amount of resources to research and development. Meanwhile, our leadership team has been reinvesting in the business and creating a progressive company culture that benefits both our customers and our people. Located in Santa Rosa, CA, Alluxa was founded in 2007 by a team of thin film deposition veterans. Alluxa's core team brings together decades of expertise and diverse backgrounds in deposition, automation, metrology, and optics. Alluxa produces its filters with a new class of custom optical thin film coating equipment designed and built by our team. The combination of our state of the art automation, proprietary control algorithms, and a patented plasma thin film deposition process allows the world's most difficult filters to be created in a fraction of the time required by other hard coating methods. Using this proprietary thin film optical coating platform, Alluxa is delivering custom solutions to the most challenging optical coating problems - including bringing lower costs to high performance requirements. read more