Dr. Leonid Glebov, President and CTO of OptiGrate, has been named the 2008 recipient of the Dennis Gabor Award which is annually presented by SPIE in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in diffractive wavefront technologies, holography and metrology applications. The 2008 Award was made for discovery and practical implementation of photothermorefractive glass as a new medium for recording high-efficiency volume holographic gratings.

Also, Leon was elected to the 2008 Fellow Membership of the Optical Society of America (OSA) for pioneering studies of photoionization physics of pure and doped glasses which enabled both the discovery and development of technologies based on high-efficiency volume holographic gratings in photothermorefractive glass.

Congratulations Leon!

OptiGrate designs and manufactures all types of volume Bragg gratings (transmitting - TBG's, reflecting - RBG's, chirped - CBG's) in inorganic photosensitive silicate glass. Patented volume Bragg gratings with 95%+ diffraction efficiency are manufacturing under the exclusive license from University of Central Florida.   The company produces custom prototypes of diffractive optical components for a number of Government contractors and other optical and semiconductor companies. OptiGrate successfully completed two Phase II STTR grants from the US Department of Defense and currently performing a Phase I NAVY SBIR project on compact stretcher/compressor for high power ultrafast lasers based on volume chirped Bragg gratings and Phase II NASA SBIR project to develop high resolution diffractive gratings operating from UV to near-IR spectral range.    NEW PRODUCT ALERT: Transverse Chirped Bragg Gratings     Come and visit us at Photonics West in San Jose, CA (January 27-29, 2009)     OPEN POSITION: Optical Test Engineer   OPEN POSITION: Laser Engineer