WaveFront After the Acquisition: Chris Rich on Strategy and Technology

In April 2022, Holography News (the predecessor to Holography & Optical Technology News™) published an in-depth interview with Chris Rich, co-founder and CEO of WaveFront Technology, charting more than three decades at the forefront of holography. That conversation explored WaveFront’s origins in recombination and tooling, its evolution into deep microstructure UV-casting and freeform optical technologies, and the company’s vision to integrate macro, micro and nanostructures into unified optical security features.

Since that interview, WaveFront has entered a significant new phase with its acquisition by Hueck Folien, a development that brings together WaveFront’s specialist origination and microstructure capabilities with Hueck Folien’s established production capability and market reach.

This follow-up interview revisits the technical themes discussed in 2022 and explores the strategic and technological implications of the WaveFront–Hueck Folien acquisition.