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Management & Staff

Jeffrey Ungar, Ph.D., CTO and Founder
Dr. Ungar founded QPC Lasers after a 17 year career at Ortel Corporation, a pioneer in the development of analog fiberoptic technology for CATV. He joined that company in 1983 as one of the first five employees, and stayed at Ortel until after its sale to Lucent Technologies in 2000 for $3 billion. At Ortel, he occupied senior positions including Director of Advanced R&D for Optoelectronic Components and Director of Material and Structure Technologies. He holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from Caltech.

Wentao Hu, Ph.D., Vice President Engineering
Dr. Hu joined QPC Lasers in 2004 as Technical Manager and was promoted to VP of Engineering in January 2007. From 1997 to 2004, he worked at Quantronix Corporation (now a subsidiary of GSI). At Quantronix, he occupied senior positions including Director and Vice President, managed the R&D and manufacturing of high power solid-state lasers, as well as the laser applications center. Dr. Hu received his Ph.D. in Optical Engineering in 1995 from SIOM (Shanghai Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for his pioneer work on DPSSL in China. Dr. Hu has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and professional conferences and has been granted three patents.

Laurent Vaissie, Ph.D., Vice President Marketing and Sales
Dr. Vaissie joined QPC in 2007 as Product Manager and was promoted to Director then V.P. of Marketing and Sales in 2008 and 2009 respectively. From 2004 to 2007, he led the development and technical marketing of high power ultrashort pulse lasers at Raydiance Inc. Dr. Vaissie holds a B.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Ecole Centrale Marseille and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the College of Optics/CREOL for his work on high power grating-coupled semiconductor laser diodes. He holds six granted patents and has written over twenty publications in scientific journals and trade magazines. He is a member of OSA, SPIE and DEPS.