Jenoptik Optical Systems is pleased to welcome Matt Falanga to our optical engineering team in Jupiter, FL.

Matt has prior experience from Johnson and Johnson Vision Care, Draper Laboratory, and Clear Align in product development and testing. He will split responsibilities between the lab and design desk specializing in testing and optical tolerancing.

Matt graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science, Optics/Optical Sciences. At UCF, he was a graduate research assistant in the Nanophotonic Device Group and is a member of Tau Beta Pi and the IEEE Photonics Society.

Jenoptik Optical Systems is pleased to welcome Matt Hejazi to our mechanical engineering team.

Matt brings experience in product design and manufacturing process support from a variety of industries including Automation, and RF. His experience has led him to be closely involved in the complete design process from initial concept and development of manufacturing plans, to test planning and verification of first products in low and high volume applications. In particular, Matt expands the Jupiter team’s internal capabilities for finite element analysis. He holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Florida Atlantic University.

Matt will work alongside our Jupiter design team (optical systems) and Huntsville mechanical engineering (microoptics) team to expand the team’s technical depth.

Ten finalists in the SPIE Startup Challenge will present their three-minute pitches to a panel of judges at Photonics West on Wednesday 6 February 2013, 3:30-5 p.m.    The three winners will land a share of the $17,500 prize. The finalist presentation is open to the public with free registration.

"The SPIE Startup Challenge has become an outstanding annual opportunity to see early-stage innovation in progress," said Jay Kumler, President of JENOPTIK Optical Systems and Startup Challenge Finalist Judge. "Partnering with SPIE as lead sponsor for the past two years is one tool that JENOPTIK uses to encourage entrepreneurship in our company and in our industry. The event fits our values and our culture."

Full information on the event can be found here: http://spie.org/x91473.xml

Jenoptik’s Lasers & Material Processing division appoints Stephen Hypsh to the post of the Vice President of the Lasers Business Unit in the USA & North America.

Stephen Hypsh has more than 15 years of experience and excellent knowledge of the laser sector, mainly in the USA and North America. Before he began working for Jenoptik, he held various executive positions in the industry. Most  recently, he used to be responsible for the business development at Raydiance – a manufacturer of femtosecond lasers. Moreover, one of his previous positions was that of a Sales Manager at Trumpf Lasers in North America.

SPIE has named Tolis Deslis, Engineering Manager at Jenoptik Optical Systems, a Senior Member. Tolis will be recognized in San Diego this week at the SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference along with the other recipients.

Senior Members are recognized by the Society for their professional experience, their active involvement with the optics community and SPIE, or significant performance that sets them apart from their peers.

Annually the Membership Committee recommends a class of members for recognition as Senior Members. Criteria include 5 years of SPIE membership along with 10 years of professional experience. Accomplishments considered include product engineering and development, patents, publishing of journal articles or textbooks. Service to SPIE, the industrial community, government or educational community is also considered.

A complete listing of the 2012 honorees including links to the recipient’s profile of technical publications and SPIE involvement on the SPIE announcement webpage.

Nick Smith joined Jenoptik Optical Systems as a Production Process Engineer for optical manufacturing in May 2012.

At Jenoptik, Nick will support optical manufacturing developing manufacturing plans and as a CNC expert, support all areas of related manufacturing including LEAN initiatives and capacity planning. He comes to Jenoptik experienced in aspheric manufacturing metrology and processing and will add to the company's existing expertise as a manufacturer of precision aspheric and spherical optics.

BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA -- Twenty aspiring entrepreneurs will pitch their biophotonics and optoelectronics ideas and products to a team of expert judges in a photonics-based start-up business pitch competition Monday and Wednesday (23 and 25 January) at the SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco. Hosted by SPIE and sponsored by Jenoptik, the contest will bring together early-stage entrepreneurs with experienced industry leaders, product specialists, and venture capitalists serving as contest judges.

Participants each will have just three minutes to pitch the product or procedure that they think has commercial potential.

Marcelo Guimaraes has joined Jenoptik Optical Systems, Inc. in a program management role where his primary responsibility is a new multi year, multi million dollar development and fabrication contract.  Marcelo’s unique experience base includes optical metrology, entertainment imaging equipment, program management, and even teaching all of which will be drawn on in his new role.

Marcelo spent 11 years with Kodak in the Entertainment Imaging Division in various optical engineering and project management roles related to motion picture cameras, film scanners and image quality.  He has authored two patents in these areas.  After time with QED Technologies in its Optical Metrology Division, Marcelo was most recently the Optics Program Coordinator and also served as an Optics professor at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY.

Marcelo Guimaraes has joined Jenoptik Optical Systems, Inc. in a program management role where his primary responsibility is a new multi year, multi million dollar development and fabrication contract.  Marcelo’s unique experience base includes optical metrology, entertainment imaging equipment, program management, and even teaching all of which will be drawn on in his new role.

Marcelo spent 11 years with Kodak in the Entertainment Imaging Division in various optical engineering and project management roles related to motion picture cameras, film scanners and image quality.  He has authored two patents in these areas.  After time with QED Technologies in its Optical Metrology Division, Marcelo was most recently the Optics Program Coordinator and also served as an Optics professor at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY.

The employees of JENOPTIK Optical Systems, Inc. held celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the founding of Jenoptik at each of US locations this summer.  These celebrations followed the formal event held in Jena, Germany  July 2nd. The local anniversary celebrations provided a time to reflect on the dedication and accomplishments, technical and commercial, of Jenoptik employees worldwide since 1991.