About

Nearly 50 years of making light behave.

Tower Optical Corporation is a precision optics manufacturer in Boynton Beach, Florida. Founded in 1978 and under the same ownership since 1997, we manufacture the components that go into laser systems, scientific instruments, and defense platforms.

Capabilities at a glance

We manufacture high-quality precision optics — waveplates, lenses, prisms, beamsplitters, windows, mirrors, filters, precision optical flats, and the assemblies that hold them. Stock items ship in days; build-to-print work is quoted in about a day.

Our components go into leading-edge photonics, electro-optics, lasers, telecommunications, medical instruments, optical imaging, and optical computing. Our customers are aerospace and defense contractors, government labs, universities, and the companies building tomorrow’s instruments.

The Tower Optical team in the Boynton Beach shop

The Tower Optical team — Boynton Beach, Florida

To be the supplier of choice for the most demanding and innovative organizations focused on improving man’s quality of life through light-based technologies.

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Boynton Beach, Florida

ISO 9001:2015 · AS9100 · ITAR

CAGE 1N2U3 · OSA · SPIE · APOMA

Timeline

Company history

  1. 1978

    Tower is founded

    Precision optics manufacturing begins in the United States.

  2. 1997

    Current ownership

    The company comes under the ownership that still runs it today — stability the customer base can plan around.

  3. 2007

    ISO 9001 certified

    First registration certificate received, establishing the quality management system we still operate.

  4. Today

    ISO 9001:2015 · AS9100 · ITAR

    Serving aerospace, defense, medical, telecom and research — with stock waveplates in 40+ wavelengths and build-to-print for everything else.

Leadership

The people signing your certificate of compliance

Yoany Rodriguez, Ph.D.

President & CEO

Harry Seth

Chief Operations Officer

James “Chip” Gorsuch

Director of Business Development

Margie D’Orazio

Accounting Manager

Quality

Zero-defect, by philosophy

Tower is committed to meeting customer requirements and raising satisfaction through a culture of continuous improvement. Management stands behind every product and keeps investing in equipment, training, and ISO 9001 — with a zero-defect philosophy.

  • ISO 9001:2015Certified — manufacturing, sales & marketing of precision optics
  • SAE AS9100Aerospace quality system compliant
  • ITARRegistered · CAGE 1N2U3
  • 10 yrRecords retention on defense orders

Careers

Build optics for a living

Tower is interested in experienced opticians — grinding & fabrication, polishing, assembly technicians, QA inspectors, inside sales, and precision optics sales reps (defined territories). We are a drug-free workplace and hold all applications in strict confidence.

Apply: send your résumé
  • Grinding & fabrication
  • Polishing
  • Assembly technicians
  • QA inspectors
  • Inside sales · optics sales reps

Boynton Beach, FL · strict confidence on all applications

Have a drawing? We’ll have a number for it.

Flight optics, IR and mirror assemblies, DUV lithography components — send your specs or CAD file. Quotes go out within one business day.