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Leadership
OptiGrate has the excellent combination of skills and experiences of key management and technical personnel in bringing innovative technology to the market.
The leadership team consists of:
Dr. Alexei Glebov
Dr. Alexei Glebov has a wealth of industrial experience
in managing advanced product development and manufacturing in
optoelectronic industry, with a strong emphasis on new product
introduction (NPI). Dr. Glebov started his industrial career at Bell
Laboratories, Lucent Technologies in 1998 and worked for over a decade
in various technical and management positions on cutting-edge technology
development at Finisar Corp, Fujitsu Ltd, and Lucent Technologies. He
has 35 US patents issued and pending, more than 50 peer-reviewed journal
publications and book chapters with 600+ citation index, is a frequent
invited lecturer, editor of several proceedings bands, conference chair,
session chair, executive organizing and program committee member at
major SPIE, IEEE and EOS meetings and trade shows. Dr. Alexei Glebov
joined OptiGrate in 2008 as CEO and President and leads the company in
the successful growth to become the leader in the field of holographic
optical elements for optoelectronic applications.
Education: Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Georg-August University of
Goettingen, Germany, M.S. in Applied Physics from University of St.
Petersburg, Russia
Mr. Vadim Smirnov
Mr. Smirnov pioneered the early development of volume
Bragg grating technology in PTR glass and has 15-year experience in
holography and VBGs. He is the principal investigator of three research
projects on large aperture volume Bragg gratings for spectroscopy, high
energy femtosecond lasers, and spectral beam combining. Over the last
five years, he has been the leading force behind the development of new
VBG products that today comprise a majority of OptiGrate’s product
lines. He has also been a key contributor in VBG technologies on four
DOD funded programs: ADHELS, STAB, APPLE, and SHEDS. He is the coauthor
of six US patents and 75 papers and presentations on PTR hologram
technology and its applications.
Education: Master of Science in Physics, St-Petersburg Technical
University of Fine Mechanics & Optics, Russia; Master of Science in
Optics, School of Optics/CREOL, University of Central Florida
Prof. Dr. Leon Glebov
Prof. Glebov founded OptiGrate in 1999. As President and
CTO he was instrumental in establishing the company and he continues to
direct OptiGrate’s research and development activities in his current
role as Vice President of R&D. The early work of Dr. Glebov and his team
in 1970’s has paved a way to modern VBG technology in PTR glass and his
further research efforts in 1990’s enabled to bring the technology to a
commercial level that lead to the founding of OptiGrate. Dr. Glebov is also
a Research Professor at CREOL, at the University of Central Florida,
where he leads the Photoinduced Processing research group since 1995.
Before coming to the US, Prof. Glebov has led the world-renown Vavilov
State Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia where, over the course of many
years he has held various high-level positions from Head of the Optical
Glass Division to Director of the Institute. Dr. Glebov has published
one book, more than 304 technical articles in scientific journals and
holds more than 20 patents.
Education: M.S. in Physics and Engineering, Leningrad Polytechnic
Institute, Leningrad, Russia (1971), Ph.D. in Physics (major in Optics),
State Optical Institute, Leningrad, Russia (1976), Doctor of Science in
Physics (major in Optics), State Optical Institute, Leningrad, Russia
(1987).
Dr. Oleg Smolski
Dr. Oleg Smolski started his scientific career at the
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in 1982, where he worked as Researcher
for sixteen years in the laboratory headed by Prof. Zh. Alferov, 2000
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics. His knowledge and experience in the field
of semiconductor laser technology were extended performing research in the
University of Connecticut, and then managing the Packaging, Test and
Reliability Group at Infinite Photonics, Inc. In 2003 Dr. Smolski joined
CREOL, at the University of Central Florida, where he was involved in
the execution of different research programs and also in development of
the CREOL nanophotonics facility. Beginning 2007 Dr. Smolski worked as
an Associate Research Professor at the University of North
Carolina-Charlotte. His research activity covers the broad area of the
technologies including semiconductor structure epitaxial growth, laser
diode processing&packaging, developing advanced light-emitting devices
with the in-plane integrated diffraction optical elements etc. Dr. Oleg
Smolski is a co-author of over 50 scientific papers published in refereed
journals and conference proceedings.
Education: Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics from Ioffe Institute, St.
Petersburg, Russia; Master of Science in Optoelectronics from St.
Petersburg Electrotechnical University, St Petersburg, Russia.
Dr. Igor Ciapurin
Dr. Igor Ciapurin is with OptiGrate Corp since 2005. He
received his PhD degree in Physics from the State University of Moldova,
where he joined the R&D Department in 1991 and has held different
research and management positions. Since 2001, Igor has been with CREOL/UCF
in Orlando, Florida, where his research has mainly aimed to design and
develop volume Bragg gratings in PTR glass for spectral beam combining
of high-power lasers. He has 70+ publications in refereed journals and
conference proceedings, and 15+ years of experience in business
management.
Education: Ph.D. in Physics of Semiconductors and Dielectrics from
the State University of Moldova, M.S. in Optoelectronics from Kishinev
State University, Moldova
Dr. Aleksandr Ryasnyanskiy
The research activity of Dr. Ryasnyanskiy covers optical and nonlinear optical properties of nanomaterials, development of pulsed and CW laser sources including fiber lasers, parametric oscillators, and amplifiers, etc. His work experience includes several research positions in France: Institut des nanosciences de Paris (2004-2005), Institut d’Optique, Paleseau (2007-2009);
and in the United States: Institute for Lasers, Photonics and BioPhotonics, Buffalo, NY (2006-2007); Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA (2009-2011) where he gained experience in optics and laser physics. He has published more than 70 technical articles in scientific journals and more than 40 talks have been presented at international conferences and workshops.
Education: M.S. in Physics and Mathematics, Samarkand State University, Samarkand, Uzbekistan (1999), Ph.D. in Physics (major in Laser Physics), Institute of Electronics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (2002)
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