About us.
Founding a company
In 2004, graduate engineer Dirk Günther founded Optomet GmbH together with his business partner and former fellow student, graduate engineer Qian Liu. Since then, the company has been developing and manufacturing state-of-the-art measurement technology at its headquarters in Darmstadt to meet the most demanding vibration analysis requirements in industry and research.
Milestones
In 2011, the Darmstadt-based company became the first in the world to use FPGAs in its instruments. Field Programmable Gate Arrays are the key components for pushing laser Doppler vibrometers to the limits of what is technically possible. Optomet was also the first company worldwide to present an infrared scanning vibrometer at Automotive Testing Expo 2015 in Stuttgart. The 2018 launch of OptoSCAN, the new full-field vibration imaging software for intuitive vibration data acquisition, analysis, and visualization, marked another revolutionary milestone in the laser vibrometer market.
Philosophy
"Always striving for the best possible solution and going uncompromisingly to the limits of what is technologically feasible." This motivation from the founding days still describes the Optomet DNA today. To this day, the only questions underlying the development of every single product are: where do the technical limits lie, and how can they be pushed further?
History
2004
Company founded in Stuttgart by managing directors Dirk Günther and Qian Liu, focusing on the development of custom optoelectronic products
2007
Focus on the in-house development of a "laser Doppler vibrometer"
2010
Relocation of the company headquarters to Darmstadt
2011
Market launch of the world's first fully digital, FPGA-based HeNe laser Doppler vibrometer (Vector series) with color touchscreen
2015
Sales launch of the Ethernet-enabled infrared (SWIR) laser vibrometer (Nova series)
First Ethernet-based high-speed data acquisition and analysis software OptoGUI for single-point laser Doppler vibrometers (1 Gbit)
Market launch of the world's first SWIR scanning laser Doppler vibrometer (Scan-Series)
2016
Expansion of the company premises with a new production facility
Sales launch of the innovative dual-fiber system (Fiber-Series) based on digital fiber-coupled SWIR laser Doppler vibrometers
2018
Market launch of the new imaging full-field vibrometer software OptoSCAN for intuitive data acquisition, analysis, and visualization of vibrations and transient processes
2019
Innovative enhancement of laser vibrometry with absolute distance measurement for capturing the 3D geometry of measurement objects
2020
Market launch of the enhanced Nova-Xtra with an extra-large aperture. It is designed to measure vibrations over distances of up to 300 m.
2021
The Fiber-Micro-Manipulator revolutionizes the study of auditory mechanics by exploring its vibrational and dynamic intricacies.
2022
Presentation of the Vector-Micro-Optics, which enables ultra-precise measurements on the smallest objects using an exceptionally small laser spot of approximately 3 um.
2024
Market launch of the new SMART series. A new generation of products with unlimited possibilities.