Company History and Profile
OptiGrate
(legally
Light Processing & Technologies, Inc.) is a privately held company
engaged in the development and fabrication of robust high efficiency volume
diffractive gratings for optical beam control in high power laser systems,
optical communications and processing. The company was established by
researchers at the Center for Research and Education on Optics and Lasers (CREOL)
at the University of Central Florida with the goal of commercializing
high-efficiency holographic elements (commonly volume Bragg gratings) by means
of photo-thermo-refractive (PTR) process. This technology
development was started by Co-Founder and current President and Chief Technology
Officer, Dr. Leon Glebov, who co-authored the first publication on the discovery
of the photo-thermo-refractive phenomenon in a doped silicate glass, and the
recording of the first volume hologram in this material in 1989.
OptiGrate designs and manufactures volume diffractive gratings in reflecting
and transmitting geometries with efficiency exceeding 97% for commercial and
defense applications. The
basic technology of hologram recording in a photosensitive glass is protected by
two issued
U.S. patents (6,586,141,
6,673,497,
7,324,286,
7,326,500,
7,394,842) and several others pending. The
company develops and produces custom prototypes of different diffractive
optical components for a number of optical and semiconductor companies.
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