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History & Milestones
2011 |
- OptiGrate is named as a “50 Florida Companies to Watch”
award winner
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2010 |
- Launch of full product line of ultra narrow band BragGrate™
Notch and Bandpass filters with wavelength from 488 to 1064
nm
- First demonstration of a monolithic Notch filter with OD>5
and bandwidth <10 cm-1 at 785 nm
- OptiGrate is awarded $1.5M US government contracts to
develop VBG based technologies
- Demonstrated PTR glass with absorption lower than 1x10-4
cm-1 at 1 micron
- OptiGrate’s CTO Dr. Leon Glebov is named an SPIE Fellow
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2009 |
- First demonstration of 100x100 mm2 high energy laser target boards in PTR glass
- OptiGrate receives NASA award to develop fiber laser
technologies
- First demonstration of 200W laser diode module with 20
pm line width
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2008 |
- OptiGrate appoints Dr. Alexei Glebov as President and CEO
- Light Processing and Technologies (DBA OptiGrate) becomes OptiGrate Corporation
- First demonstration of CBG based femtosecond pulse compressor with 90% efficiency
- First high efficiency gratings with 60x60 mm2 lateral dimensions
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2007 |
- First 30W Volume Bragg Laser (VOBLA) built at OptiGrate
- First demonstration of VBG filter with 20 pm spectral width
- Opened new glass fabrication facility
- OptiGrate’s VBG passed 20 kW laser radiation test
- First demonstration of UV VBG at 390 nm with 90% efficiency
- Launch of BragGrate Combiner product for kW-class spectral beam combining
- Developed PTR glass technology with 100 mm lateral dimensions and absorption of 3x10E-4 cm-1 at 1 micron
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2006 |
- Absolute diffraction efficiency of 99.7% is achieved in VBG
- Fabricated first high efficiency gratings with 35x35 mm2 lateral dimensions
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2005 |
- Opened new holographic facility
- First volume order received
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2004 |
- First RBG filter with OD5
- First Phase II STTR Government contract
- First Chirped Bragg Grating compressor is fabricated
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2003 |
- Core patent issued for the platform technology
- Discovery of non-linear photosensitivity of PTR glass to visible radiation
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2002 |
- First commercial order
- First commercial order for RBG for laser diode (LD) stabilization
- Demonstration of first RBG based tunable filter
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2001 |
- Demonstrated spectral and angular narrowing and stabilization of lasers with VBG selection of longitudinal and transverse modes for a DoD program
- Discovery of 3rd harmonic generation in PTR VBG
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2000 |
- Exclusive license for platform technology
- First Phase I STTR Government contract
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1999 |
- Incorporation of Light Processing and Technologies Inc. (DBA OptiGrate)
- VBG with 98% diffraction efficiency is demonstrated
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