Jul 15 2008
QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-brightness, high-power semiconductor chip-based lasers for the consumer electronics, industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced the company's technical marketing team recently published a technical paper in the prestigious laser industry trade magazine Laser+Photonics.
Dr. Paul Rudy, Dr. Tom Steele and Dr. Laurent Vaissié (see bios below) collaborated on the technical paper entitled “More Efficient and Less Complex” which discusses recent breakthroughs in QPC’s semiconductor laser technology which have improved the compactness, efficiency, power and beam quality on lasers while simultaneously reducing the waste heat and complexity of the system, thus reducing cost. The article was published in both English and German and both are available for review on the company’s website at www.qpclasers.com under Recent Articles.
The article describes the industry leading performance and benefits of QPC’s unique and proprietary high performance chip-based laser technology which is protected by 16 patents (9 issued, 7 pending). Proprietary processes and numerous trade secrets underlie the company’s optoelectronic technologies and enable the extraordinary ability to generate up to a 10x reduction in size, weight, power consumption and cost compared to conventional laser technology available on the market today.
“QPC’s next generation technology arms our customers with a number of key competitive advantages, and we are pleased to announce this esteemed recent publication which describes these in detail,” said President and CEO Dr. Jeffrey Ungar. “With over one hundred customers in more than 20 countries around the globe, we will continue our technical marketing activities to drive our worldwide growth in our target markets - consumer electronics, defense, medical and industrial.”
The authors include:
- Dr. Paul Rudy is QPC’s senior vice president of marketing and sales and has more than 12 years of semiconductor laser industry experience. He joined QPC in 2004 from Coherent, Inc. (NASDAQ: COHR) where he led market development for their semiconductor business unit. Dr. Rudy received his masters and doctoral degrees in physics from the University of Rochester.
- Dr. Tom Steele is QPC’s director or medical market development and has more than 9 years of bio-medical laser market expertise. Previous roles included a position at Spectra Physics Lasers, a division of Newport (NASDAQ: NEWP) where he served as the director of marketing and commercial sales manager. Dr. Steele received his doctoral degree in physics from Stanford University.
- Dr. Laurent Vaissié serves as QPC’s senior product manager. Prior to joining QPC in 2007, he led the product development and technical marketing of compact, user-friendly Ultrashort Pulse fiber Lasers at Raydiance, Inc from 2004 to 2007. He received his masters and doctoral degrees in Optics from the College of Optics and Photonics, CREOL for his work on high power surface-emitting semiconductor lasers.
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