OptiGrate designs and manufactures volume diffractive gratings in reflecting and transmitting geometries for commercial and defense applications. The basic technology of hologram recording in a photosensitive glass is protected by six issued U.S. patents and several pending patents.
Selected Technical Papers
Overview Papers
“Volume Bragg Gratings in PTR Glass--New Optical Elements for Laser Design”
L.Glebov, Invited Paper
3rd Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) Topical Meeting. ASSP Technical Digest, Paper Code MD1, Nara, Japan, January 2008.
“High brightness laser design based on volume Bragg gratings.”
L.Glebov, Invited Paper
Laser Source and System Technology for Defense and Security II. Proceedings of SPIE 6216 (2006) 621601.
Wavelength Stabilization and Spectral Narrowing of Lasers
"Single-frequency-mode Q-switched Nd:YAG and Er:glass lasers controlled by volume Bragg gratings"
N. Vorobiev, L. Glebov, and V. Smirnov
Opt. Express 16, 9199-9204 (2008)
"Continuous wave, 30 W laser-diode bar with 10 GHz linewidth for Rb laser pumping"
A. Gourevitch, G. Venus, V. Smirnov, D. A. Hostutler, and L. Glebov
Opt. Lett. 33, 702-704 (2008)
Ultra-Low-Frequency Notch Filters
"Volume Bragg Gratings as ultra-narrow and multiband optical filters"
A.Glebov, O.Mokhun, A.Rapaport, S.Vergnole, V.Smirnov, and L.Glebov (Invited Paper)
Proceedings of SPIE 8428 (2012) 84280C
"Novel Volume Bragg Grating notch filters for ultra-low frequency Raman measurements"
A.Glebov, O.Mokhun, V.Smirnov, L.Glebov, A.Rapaport, B.Roussel, H.-J.Reich, and F.Adar
The 3rd Scientific EOS Annual Meeting (EOSAM 2010), paper 4007
Chirped Bragg Gratings for Ultrashort Pulse Stretching and Compressing
L. Glebov, V.Smirnov, E. Rotari, I.Cohanoschi, L.Glebova, O.Smolski, J.Lumeau, C.Lantigua, and A.Glebov
Optical Engineering 53(5), 051514 (May 2014)
"Large-aperture chirped volume Bragg grating based fiber CPA system"
K.-H.Liao, M.-Y.Cheng, E.Flecher, V.I.Smirnov, L.Glebov, and A.Galvanauskas
Opt. Express 15 (2007) 4876-4882.
Spectral Beam Combination of High-Power Lasers
"Spectral Combining and Coherent Coupling of Lasers by Volume Bragg Gratings"
O.Andrusyak, V.Smirnov, G.Venus, V.Rotar, and L.Glebov
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 15 (2009) 344-353.
"Efficient Power Scaling of Laser Radiation by Spectral Beam Combining"
A.Sevian, O.Andrusyak, I.Ciapurin, G.Venus, V.Smirnov, and L.Glebov
Opt. Lett. 33 (2008) 384-386
Narrowband Filters
"Ultra-Narrow Bandpass filters based on Volume Bragg Grating Technologies"
J.Lumeau, V.Smirnov, A.Glebov, and L.Glebov
Proceedings of SPIE 7675 (2010) 76750H
"Tunable narrowband filter based on a combination of Fabry-Perot etalon and volume Bragg grating"
J.Lumeau, L.Glebov, and V.Smirnov
Opt. Lett. 31 (2006) 2417-2419.
Theory of Volume Bragg Gratings
"Modeling of phase volume diffractive gratings, part 1: Transmitting sinusoidal uniform gratings"
I.Ciapurin, L.Glebov, and V.Smirnov
Optical Engineering 45 (2006) 015802.
I.Ciapurin, D.Drachenberg, V.Smirnov, G.Venus, and L.Glebov
Optical Engineering 51 (2012) 058001 .
Angular Deflection
"Angle Selective Enhancement of Beam Deflection in High-Speed Electrooptic Switches"
Glebov, A. L.; Smirnov, V. I.; Lee, M. G.; Glebov, L. B.; Sugama, A.; Aoki, S.; Rotar, V.
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE; Volume 19, Issue 9, May1, 2007 Page(s):701 - 703
Process for Production of High Efficiency Volume Diffractive Elements in Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glass
High Efficiency Volume Diffractive Elements in Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glass
Optical Beam Steering and Switching by Optically Controlled Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator with Angular magnification by High Efficiency PTR Bragg Gratings
Sensitization of Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glass to Visible Radiation by Two-Step Illumination
Volume Bragg Lasers Based on High Efficiency Diffractive Elements in Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glass
Stretching and Compression of Laser Pulses by Means of High Efficiency Volume Diffractive Gratings with Variable Periods in Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glass
