Fairfield, N.J., company finds niche market for night-vision imaging gear.

Publication: The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Byline: Martha McKay

Nov. 20--The day after the infamous slow-speed chase in 1994 of O.J. Simpson in his white Ford Bronco, a major broadcaster was on the phone to Electrophysics Corp., a 40-person company in Fairfield.

Turns out that the TV producers were livid they had missed a key shot: Simpson sat in his car until darkness fell and then slipped unseen into his Brentwood mansion in California.

Camera operators hovering overhead in helicopters weren't equipped with something Electrophysics sold: night-vision gear for TV cameras.

Electrophysics hadn't begun its corporate life selling night-vision equipment -- or the sophisticated infrared and thermal imaging technology it now sells to the military and commercial customers.

The company began modestly...

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