Bristol Instruments - located just outside of Rochester, NY - was created in 2005 by three technical and marketing leaders from the photonics industry. They are veterans of the former Burleigh Instruments, a scientific instrumentation company founded in the early 1970s. Burleigh served a variety of markets, including scientific research and telecommunications, until the early 2000s. Bristol Instruments still honors the legacy of Burleigh Instruments, and has since expanded its capabilities to better serve customers from the scientific research, telecommunications, and optical metrology communities.