Press Releases & News
2017
MAY 23, 2017
IPG Photonics Corporation (NASDAQ: IPGP) today announced that it has acquired OptiGrate Corporation, a pioneer and leading manufacturer of the highest-quality chirped volume Bragg grating (VBG) technologies. OptiGrate VBG-based components enable dramatic performance improvement, miniaturization and cost reduction of ultrafast pulsed lasers for micro materials processing, medical and other applications. OptiGrate is a supplier to IPG, and as this relationship has deepened, the companies determined that there was a strong mutual benefit to joining together.
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2014
MAY / 2014
OptiGrate Corp, a graduate of the UCF Business Incubation Program of Orlando, has been named a finalist for the National Business Incubation Association’s 2014 Outstanding Incubator Graduate award in the technology category. The winner of the prestigious award will be announced May 20 at NBIA’s 28th International Conference on Business Incubation in New Orleans.
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2013
NOVEMBER / 2013
OptiGrate began when a Russian scientist seized a ripe opportunity in the U.S. market. This University of Central Florida spinoff designs and manufactures volume Bragg gratings that boost laser performance and advance spectroscopy. OptiGrate’s Central Florida location has provided economic benefits, and it also enables collaborations with UCF and other organizations. Read more »
SEPTEMBER / 2013
OptiGrate is one of dozens of companies created by technological discoveries at UCF and nurtured to profitability in its business incubators. “It’s a disruptive technology,” explained M.J. Soileau, UCF’s vice president for research and a professor of optics. The technology basically provides the foundation for a new line of laser products. “It’s going to give people the ability to make things you didn’t know you could make,” continued Soileau, who earned a PhD in quantum electronics from the University of Southern California. “They’re first out of the block.” Read more »
JULY / 2013
Seeking to help emerging companies advance, the
Super Region has locked on to leveraging the collective strengths of
its universities and their supportive business communities. The
result: targeted success.
A shining example of academic and industrial
collaboration is OptiGrate Corp., a world-class optics company that
specializes in the volume Bragg grating (VBG) technology.
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MARCH / 2013
OptiGrate Corp., a graduate of the UCF Business Incubator (UCFBI) –
Central Florida Research Park, was nominated as the “Small
Manufacturer of the Year” at the Manufacturer’s Association of
Central Florida (MACF) Annual President’s Award Dinner in November.
Each year the Awards of Excellence are presented to MACF members in
each manufacturing category: small, medium and large.
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2012
NOVEMBER / 2012
OptiGrate Corp has been recognized with the President’s Award by
the Manufacturers Association of Central Florida (MACF) in the Small
Manufacturer category. Every year this award goes to one company in
each category: small, medium, and large manufacturers.
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OCTOBER / 2012
OptiGrate Corp recently moved to a new location to accommodate an
increased demand for the firm’s volume Bragg grating (VBG) products
and allow for future expansion. The new 10,000 square foot
state-of-the-art facility nearly doubled OptiGrate’s corporate
office space and manufacturing facilities and was specially designed
and engineered for volume Bragg grating production. The facility -
the only vertically integrated VBG production plant in the world –
includes photo-thermo-refractive glass production unit, VBG
holographic production unit, and VBG laser application development
lab.
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APRIL / 2012
OptiGrate’s CEO Dr. Alexei Glebov presented an invited paper at
Photonics Europe in Brussels, Belgium (15-20 April 2012) on “Volume
Bragg Gratings as Ultra-Narrow and Multiband Optical Filters”. The
paper reviews recent advances in VBG technologies that enabled
key improvements of high efficiency grating properties and led to
development of unique VBG based optical filters for Raman
spectroscopy and other applications. The
full article can be downloaded here »
APRIL / 2012
Among the newly chosen SPIE Fellows are Alexei Glebov, president
and CEO of OptiGrate Corp., whose father Leonid Glebov of the
University of Central Florida (UCF) is also an SPIE Fellow.
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JANUARY / 2012
OptiGrate’s optical filters are featured in the 2012 Annual Trends
Issue of
Photonics Spectra.
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2011
JANUARY / 2011
OptiGrate Corp has been recognized as a recipient of the 2011
Florida Companies to Watch award, an honor presented by GrowFL,
the Florida Economic Gardening Institute.
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2010
SEPTEMBER / 2010
OptiGrate Corp has launched a complete product line of new
ultra-narrow notch and bandpass filters for Raman spectroscopy
applications. Read more »
2009
FEBRUARY / 2009
The University of Central Florida (UCF) and OptiGrate Corp., have extended a licensing agreement giving the company exclusive rights to make, sell and sub-license its full line of distinctive holographic optical elements. Read more »
JANUARY / 2009
Orlando Company Transforms Bright Ideas into Real World Products. Read more »
JANUARY / 2009
... has developed and patented the most compact and robust femtosecond laser pulse stretcher and compressor based on Chirped Volume Bragg Gratings (CBGs) technology. Read more
JANUARY / 2009
"Alexei brings to OptiGrate a deep understanding of the optoelectronics industry and extensive experience managing advanced technology development and new product introduction,” Read more »
2008
JANUARY / 2008
For discovery and practical implementation of photothermorefractive glass as a new medium for recording high-efficiency volume holographic gratings.
2007
NOVEMBER / 2007
For pioneering studies of photo-ionization physics of pure and doped glasses.
SEPTEMBER / 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.
MARCH / 2007
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.
2006
JULY / 2006
Reprinted from TEXTURE magazine, a publication of the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission, Summer / Fall 2006, pp. 28-29. |
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