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Connecticut’s Optics and
Photonics Industry: Growth and Opportunity
A Joint Program of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Connecticut
and the Connecticut Optics and Photonics Association
Thursday, March 20, 2008
5:00-7:30pm
5:00pm-5:45pm Registration and Networking
5:45pm to 7:30pm Program
Lawn Club, New Haven Directions
193 Whitney Ave., New Haven
Register Online:
http://www.mitforumct.org/calendar.htm
The MIT Enterprise Forum of Connecticut and the Connecticut
Optics and Photonics Association jointly bring you
“Connecticut’s Optics and Photonics Industry: Growth and
Opportunity.” The Program will focus on Connecticut’s active and
growing optics and photonics industry, with presentations by
Anastasios Maurudis from the new Connecticut Optics and
Photonics Association and a panel of optics and photonics
companies operating here in Connecticut, including the
following:
Panelist: Dr. Holger Schluter, Vice President Laser, TRUMPF
Inc., Farmington, CT:
TRUMPF is the largest manufacturer of Fabricating Machinery in
the United States and a World Market Leader in Lasers used for
Industrial Production Technology. TRUMPF Inc. is the North
American subsidiary of TRUMPF GmbH +Co. KG based near Stuttgart,
Germany. With approximately 640 employees, TRUMPF Inc. is the
largest subsidiary within the TRUMPF Group and is one of the
largest manufacturers of fabricating machinery in the United
States.
TRUMPF Inc. is dedicated to serving the American, Canadian and
Mexican market needs of: fabricating machinery, OEM laser and
laser marking. The TRUMPF Group of companies has subsidiaries in
more than 25 countries and over 7,200 employees with sales in
excess of $2.5 billion. The TRUMPF Group is a world leader in
sheet metal fabrication machinery and industrial lasers.
Panelist: Mr. Richard Rogoff, Vice-President, ASML-Optics,
Wilton, CT:
ASML is the world's leading supplier of advance lithography
systems for the semiconductor manufacturing market. ASML has
manufacturing sites in Europe and the US, R&D sites in Europe,
US, and Asia, and Sales and Service offices in over 50 locations
throughout the world. ASML currently produces in volume the
world's most advanced 193nm Immersion Step and Scan lithography
system and has shipped the world's only full field EUV Step and
Scan lithography system. These systems enable the 65nm/45nm
production node for the most advanced MPUs and Memories and the
development of the next generation technologies.
ASML Optics is a Strategic Business Unit within the ASML
corporate structure. From a portfolio of proven extreme
precision optical technologies, including optical design and
mechatronics, ASML Optics provides our customers complete
optical system solutions for imaging and illumination, remote
sensing and alignment metrology applications. ASML Optics
complete Design-to-Image solutions capabilities allows our
customers faster time to market and greater ROI for their Next
Generation optical systems. We operate advanced optics
technology development and manufacturing sites in Connecticut
and California.
Panelist: Dr. Ernest Guignon, Co-Founder/Director of
Engineering, Ciencia, East Hartford, CT:
Ciencia, Inc. is a small, privately owned corporation that has
operated in East Hartford since 1991. Ciencia’s core business is
contract research and development. Ciencia’s staff designs and
prototypes analytical instrumentation for specific applications
and environments. The primary technological areas involved are
time-resolved fluorescence detection and grating-coupled surface
plasmon resonance imaging. Emphasis is placed on reducing the
size and cost of instrumentation while expanding functionality.
Ciencia's main business focus is the integration of advanced
fluorescence sensing instrumentation, novel fluorescent dyes,
and proprietary assay methods with sophisticated analytical
systems targeted to broad applications in biomedical research,
environmental and industrial markets. Ciencia's goals are to
dramatically reduce the size and cost of instrumentation while
achieving commensurate increases in assay sensitivity, speed and
robustness, and then, through collaboration with strategic
partners, to design, develop and produce fully integrated
systems targeted to specific applications.
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opposite Yale Peabody Museum.
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Merrit Parkway South.
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