News and Press Releases

Dr. Leonid Glebov, President and CTO of OptiGrate, has been named the 2008 recipient of the Dennis Gabor Award from SPIE for discovery and practical implementation of photothermorefractive glass as a new medium for recording high-efficiency volume holographic gratings.
Dr. Leonid Glebov, President and CTO of OptiGrate, elected to the 2008 Fellow Membership of the Optical Society of America (OSA) for  pioneering studies of photo-ionization physics of pure and doped glasses.
The Florida High Tech Corridor’s first-ever “Award for Innovation in Central Florida” was awarded to OptiGrate on September 19, 2007. This Central Florida company designs and manufactures a variety of optical gratings and devices for commercial and military uses. OptiGrate received a William C. Schwartz Industry Innovation Award from the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission.
"Photosensitive Glass Changes Light Properties to Create Holograms," Leon Glebov's hologram work celebrated as one of top 100 technological breakthroughs. Dr. Leon Glebov's work has been celebrated as one of the top 100 technological breakthroughs by the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) for pioneering a method of writing microscopic pathways - holograms - into glass.
“Tripping the Light": OptiGrate makes holographic technology breakthrough,” by Nancy Christianson Curry. Reprinted from TEXTURE magazine, a publication of the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission, Summer / Fall 2006, pp. 28-29.