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Orlando, FL (February 24, 2009) – The University of Central
Florida (UCF)
and OptiGrate Corp., an Orlando-based company that started 10 years
ago with
commercialization of a breakthrough technology developed at UCF,
have extended a
licensing agreement giving the company exclusive rights to make,
sell and sub-license
its full line of distinctive holographic optical elements.
OptiGrate, a client of UCF’s award winning-Business Incubation
Program, designs
and manufactures a full range of volume Bragg gratings (VBG), a type
of unique
narrowband optical filter for industrial, scientific, and defense
applications. Superior
technologies devised by the founder of the company, UCF Optics Professor
Leon
Glebov, allow OptiGrate to offer patented volume Bragg gratings with
record
characteristics.
OptiGrate was the first company that started commercialization of
volume Bragg
gratings in the late 1990’s and continues to set records in
VBG technologies, supplying
trademarked BragGrate™ gratings to customers in five continents.
With the renewed agreement, UCF’s complete VBG-related patent
portfolio and
all technology improvements made at UCF can be exclusively used by
OptiGrate
to protect its VBG manufacturing as well as secure OptiGrate’s
customers in
implementing BragGrate™ products in their applications. “We
have pioneered VBG
in inorganic glass and patented key VBG technologies covering high
efficiency grating
fabrication, use of VBG’s in all laser resonators for mode
selection and stabilization,
including laser diodes, of course, use of chirped Bragg gratings
for ultra-short pulse
stretching and compression and many other applications that require
spectral and
angular filtering,” said Glebov, who serves as OptiGrate’s
chief technical officer.
“In 2008, UCF was ranked among the top 10 universities in the
nation in technology
strength,” said M.J. Soileau, UCF’s vice president for
research and commercialization.
Technology such as that developed by OptiGrate helped the university
achieve that
standing. “We are proud to achieve this milestone and we strongly
support UCF spinoffs
converting technologies born at UCF into real markets,” Soileau
said.
Alexei Glebov, chief executive officer of OptiGrate, said that ”with
the extension of
this agreement we not only strengthen our bonds with UCF but also
convey to our
customers a clear statement that the highest quality patents will
guard our products
and our customers who trust BragGrate™ quality in their applications.”
About OptiGrate Corp.
OptiGrate Corp. is a fast-growing privately owned company that was
spun out of the
University of Central Florida’s Center for Research and Education
in Optics and Lasers
(CREOL) in 1999. OptiGrate designs and manufactures a full range
of volume Bragg
gratings in inorganic photosensitive silicate glass and supplies
custom-built as well as volume
orders of diffractive optical components to a number of government
contractors as well as key
industrial and academic players in optoelectronics, analytical, and
semiconductor industries.
More information is available at www.OptiGrate.com. Phone: 407-381-4115. |
