Job Title: Senior Display Engineer

Job Description: Responsible for optical design and validation for world's most advanced displays. 

Company: Apple, Inc.

Current Position: Experimental Plasma Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

I am conducting experiments using high-intensity lasers. My areas of interest include the generation of novel sources of electrons, x rays, and gamma rays through laser-plasma interaction, Compton scattering, and laser-wakefield acceleration. I am currently leading an effort to develop these sources for applications in high-energy density sciences at LLNL and the Linac Coherent Light source, in addition to doing experiments for the National Ignition Facility.

Current Position-Manager, R&D Measurement & Inspection Equipment at Alcon Laboratories, Inc.

The role of the Measurement & Inspection Equipment Manager is to lead a team of engineers and technicians in the development, validation, and transfer of measurement and inspection equipment and processes in support of new intraocular lens and delivery systems products, as well as process improvements in support of intraocular lens and delivery system production.

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, Materials Science and Engineering Dept.

My research interests include nano-optics, plasmonics, metamaterials, optical force manipulation of molecules and single molecular imaging.

Job Title: Research Scientist

Company: Oculus Research, Facebook

Job Description: Develop future virtual reality headset

Current Position: Director of Engineering at Lumentum (formerly JDSU)

Mike manages the company's development of kilowatt class lasers for the global $2B laser cutting and welding market. Builds the R&D team and insures the success of major product development programs. Works closely with product line managers and product marketing managers to drive the technology and product roadmaps for the kilowatt laser business segment. Manages and tracks the execution of milestones through the formal product development process (PDP), including product variants (PV) and new product introduction (NPI). Manages OpEx and CapEx budgets. He manages a team of 16 employees.

Other recent positions he has held include Program Manager, Micro Processing at TRUMPF, Inc. and Chief Scientist at Raydiance.

Professional Society Involvement:

• Senior Member of OSA
• Senior Member of SPIE
• Member of IEEE Photonics Society
• Program Chair, CLEO Applications & Technology Committee
• Mentor, The Innovation School, Washington, DC
• Member of CLEO Joint Council on Applications
• Member of CLEO Steering Committee
• Chair of the Optical Society of America (OSA) Public Policy Committee
• Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
• David Richardson Medal Committee
• Judge-OSA Enabled by Optics contest
• Member of OSA Industry Development Associates Committee
• Industrial Advisory Board, College of Optics & Photonics, UCF
• Judge-Start-Up Challenge, SPIE Photonics West
• SPIE Photonics West Program Committee on Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications
• Laser Microprocessing Committee, International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics (ICALEO)
• Committee on Non-Linear and Ultrafast Optics (NLUO), IEEE Photonics Society
• Guest Entrepreneur at University of California Entrepreneurship Academy, Sacramento, CA

Job Title: Research Scientist

Company: Oculus Research, Facebook

Job Description: Develop future virtual reality headset

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Kansas

Alessandro conducts research in Optics and Photonics, teaches, and mentors students. He has 3 PhD students.

Prior to this position, Alessandro was a Post-Doc at the University of California Berkeley.

He is a member of OSA, SPIE, and IEEE.

Current Position: Chief Technology Officer and Director of Holography at OptiGrate Corp.

In 1999 OptiGrate Corp pioneered commercial volume Bragg gratings (VBGs) from photo-thermo-refractive glass. VBG technologies were developed in the late 1990’s at the University of Central Florida with the US government funding and then licensed to OptiGrate for commercialization. 

In 2017 OptiGrate Corp was acquired by IPG Photonics. IPG Photonics Corporation is the world leader in high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers. Founded in 1990, IPG pioneered the development and commercialization of optical fiber-based lasers for use in diverse applications, primarily materials processing. Fiber lasers have revolutionized the industry by delivering superior performance, reliability and usability at a lower total cost of ownership compared with conventional lasers, allowing end users to increase productivity and decrease operating costs. IPG has its headquarters in Oxford, Massachusetts, and has additional plants and offices throughout the world. For more information, please visit www.ipgphotonics.com.

Richard DeSalvo head of the Microwave Photonics Group at Harris Corporation in Melbourne, FL.   He was one of CREOL’s first Florida native graduate students, and among the first to obtain the PhD in Physics at UCF in 1993. Dr. DeSlavo is a leader in  areas of microwave photonics integration, coherent lightwave communications, and virtual photonics. He continues strong interaction with CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics as a Graduate Faculty Scholar, and he has lead partnerships with our faculty on major federal contracts. Dr. DeSalvo continues to give our students, both undergraduates and graduates, opportunities for internships at Harris as well as long-term employment. Currently at least nine of our graduates or current students are working in his group.