Doug McCarter, Vice-President and co-Founder, serves as technical integrator and customer liaison. He has worked in and with the petrochemical industry for over 30 years providing troubleshooting expertise on reciprocating equipment as well as supplying custom-machined parts. Since 1999, he has co-authored and authored seven technical papers concerning SCSi processing and its application. Recently, he was designated as a "Senior Member" in SPIE that honors those who have significantly contributed to the optics and photonics community.

Manijeh Razeghi joined Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as a Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices in fall 1991, where she created the undergraduate and graduate program in solid-state engineering. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, pioneering in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has authored or coauthored more than 1000 papers, more than 30 book chapters, and 16 books. She holds 30 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bunshah Award in 2004 and many best paper awards. Razeghi is an elected fellow of SWE (1995), SPIE (2000), IEC (2003), OSA (2004), APS (2004), IOP (2005), IEEE (2005) and MRS (2008).

Pioneer in the area of III-V compound semiconductors and optoelectronic devices from the deep ultraviolet to the far infrared spectral bands, including in particular InP and GaAs based semiconductors and devices, which were at the heart of the optical fiber telecommunication revolution of the late 20th Century and the rise of the information age

Paul Michael Petersen has more than 30 years of research experience in laser physics, nonlinear optics, and optical measuring techniques and he has headed several collaborative research projects within laser physics. Until 1989 he worked in the fields of optical chaos and nonlinear optics in semiconductors. In 1994 he joined the Optics and Fluid Department at Risø National Laboratory. From 2001 until 2007 he was head of Laser Systems and Optical Materials at Risø National Laboratory and in 2008 he became head of research at DTU Fotonik at the Technical University of Denmark. From 2002 to 2012 he was adjunct professor in Optics at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University. In 2011 P.M.Petersen was appointed Full Professor in New Light Sources at DTU Fotonik at the Technical University of Denmark.

high power diode lasers based on nonlinear optics and Diode lasers used for lighting.

Sergey Mirov received Ph.D. in Physics in 1983, from the P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Since 1993, Mirov is a faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Currently, he is a university Professor of Physics at the UAB and director of the Center for Optical Sensors and Spectroscopies. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, and member of the American Physics Society, and SPIE. He has authored or co-authored over three hundred ninety scientific publications, has published 1 book, several book chapters, and holds twenty patents.

Laser physics-Novel lasers and applications

Vladimir Fal’ko is a condensed-matter theorists, who was responsible for advances in the theory of electronic and optical properties of graphene (including discovery of bilayer graphene, in 2006) and theory of localisation and quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. Educated at Moscow Physical Engineering Institute and the Institute for Solid State Physics RAS, he worked as a research fellow at Max-Planck-Institut in Stuttgart and Oxford University and, now, he holds the post of Distinguished Professor of Condensed Matter Theory at Lancaster University (UK). His current interest includes modelling heterostructures of graphene and other atomically thin two-dimensional crystals, as part of the Horizon2020 European Graphene Flagship Project.

Graphene and related two-dimensional atomic crystals: electronic transport and optical properties.Heterostructures of two-dimensional atomic materials (grapheen-hBN, etc).strongly correlated states of electrons in two-dimensional materials, quantum Hall effect.Fundamentals of nanoelectronics, spintronics, and nano-electro-mechanical systems. Quantum optics and optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots.

Mahi R Singh received Ph.D. (1976) degrees from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in condensed matter physics. After that he was awarded an Alenxander von Humbold Fellow in Stuttgart University, Germany from 1979 to 1981. Currently, he is Professor in this university. He was a visiting Professor at University of Houston, He also worked as a chief researcher at CRL HITACHI, Tokyo and he was a visiting Professor and Royal Society Professor at University of Oxford, UK. He was the Director of the Centre of Chemical Physics and theoretical physics program at Western. Singh has worked in many research are of science and technology including nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, semiconductors structures, high temperature superconductors, nanophotonics, plasmonics, polarotonics and nanoscience and technology.

Nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, semiconductor structures, high temperature superconductors, nanophotonics, plasmonics, polarotonics and nanoscience and technology

J.K. Heinrich Hoerber is a Professor of Nanobiophysics, School of Physics University of Bristol, UK. He is Editor of the Journal “Molecular recognition”, published by Wiley. He is an Honorary Professor of University College London (UCL) 2003 - 2008.

Current research interest: Interactions between light and nanostructures i) surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy on nanostructures ii) sensor development for biomedical applications iii) use of optical properties to produce large quantities of mono disperse nanostructures for industrial applications 2. Electron transport in non-conducting materials i) data storage ii) photo voltaic iii) chemical catalysis 3. Mechanical properties of proteins connecting structure and function

Devki N. Talwar, Indiana U of Pennsylvania (IUP), Chair of Department of Physics, conducts research on optical/electronic properties of defects and phonons in semiconductor materials used for various electronic and opto-electronic devices. He has been with Indiana U of Pennsylvania (IUP), Department of Physics, for almost 27 years and is the author of more than 120 refereed journal articles, 3 book chapters and review articles. His expertise in the sophisticated Green’s function technique is considered very useful for providing information on the electronic and vibrational properties of defects in semiconductors, quantum wells and superlattices.

Devki Talwar conducts research on defects in semiconductor materials used for various electronics and opto-electronics.

Fedor V Kusmart is Vice Head of Physics Department, Loughborough University, Uk. For ten years Kusmartsev has been leading and managing the large multi-stakeholder research consortium – the European Network-Programme “Arrays of Quantum Dots and Josephson Junctions”(AQDJJ). This very large consortium included 75 research teams with very different cross-disciplinary background, from Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Mathematics and Computing Departments of 75 EU universities distributed over 12 EU countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK) and have very different cultural, academic and industrial backgrounds. The European Science Foundation assessment reports unanimously stated that the strong success of the AQDJJ consortium work was “due to the leadership of the AQDJJ chairman, Prof Fedor v Kusmartsev”.He is a Member of International Editorial Advisory Boards: journal N1: Advances in Condensed Matter Physics (since 2007); journal N2: Econophysics, New Economy and Complexity (since 2010). N3: Scientific Reports (NATURE, since 2013); was a guest editor of several high profile journals: Journal of Physics A(2003), Superconducting Science and Technology(2009), J. of Modern Physics B(2008).

His current topics of research include: Many body and classical dynamics, motion, stability, Saturn Rings, Protoplanetary disks, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Quantum Computing, Cosmology, Dark Matter and Dark energy, Chaos and Nonlinear Physics, Magnetic materials, Graphene, Nanophysics, Metamaterials, Topological Insulators. Magnetic Nanoparticles and their application inNanomedicin, Internet and other Networks and other Complex Systems, Communications, Sociophysics and Econophysics.

Anwar serves as an Editor of IEEE Journal of Electron Devices and has served as an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (2001 – 2010). He serves as the conference chair of the international conference on Terahertz Physics, Devices and Systems: Advanced Applications in Industry and Defense of the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012). He has also chaired the 2006 and 2007 Terahertz Physics, Devices and Systems Conference as part of SPIEs Optics East. Anwar is a SPIE fellow.

Localization of one-dimensional structures, transport in semiconductor devices, impurity diagnostics in quantum well structures, Sb-based type–II infrared detectors, noise in semiconductor devices, power performance of GaN-based HFETs and circuits.

Luís António Dias Carlos got his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Évora, Portugal, in 1995 working on photoluminescence of polymer electrolytes incorporating lanthanide salts. Currently, he is Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Physics Department. Since 2009 he has been the vice-director of the CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Portugal (with ca. 420 people, CICECO, http://www.ciceco.ua.pt/, is one of the largest European institute in the Materials and Nano fields). He is member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Physics section) since 2011 and was visiting professor of S. Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, S.P. Brazil (1999, 2012 and 2013), University of Montpellier 2, France (2008). Luís Carlos is co-author of 2 international patents, ca. 370 papers and book chapters with ca. 8900 citations (Hirsch’ index h of 49) and co-guest editor of special issues of the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology (2010) and of the Journal of Luminescence (2015). He received the Portuguese Science Foundation prize for Scientific Excellence (2004) and a CNPq Special Visiting Researcher Grant, Science Without Borders Program, Brazil (2013).

His current scientific interests include nanothermometry, light emission of functional organic–inorganic hybrids, silicates and nanocrystals, applications of hybrid materials in green photonics (solid-state lighting, luminescent solar concentrators and integrated optics), self-assembly and emergence of complexity in organic/inorganic hybrids, and luminescent/magnetic nanoparticles as new probes for multimodal imaging.

Debesh Choudhury earned his M.Sc.Tech. (optics & optoelectronics) degree in 1989 and Ph.D. (applied optics) degree in 1995 respectively from University of Calcutta and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He served as a scientist at Instruments R&D Establishment, Dehradun, India. He worked at the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan for postdoctoral research. Presently, he is a professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Neotia Institute of Technology, Management and Science, West Bengal, India. He experienced a variety of research areas in and around signal and image processing, pattern recognition, holography, laser instrumentation, microwave imaging, VLSI circuits and systems. He also handled projects in adaptive optics and imaging through turbulent media. He is an avid user and a promoter of GNU/Linux, free and open source software. He is a senior member of SPIE, member of IEEE, Optical Society of India, Optical Society of America, Indian Laser Association, Instrument Society of India, ACM, FOSET.

Image processing, digital holography, pattern recognition, microwave imaging, VLSI circuits and systems.