WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 2, 2024 — Optica’s membership elected Turan Erdogan vice president and Christine Hendon director-at-large. Erdogan serves as president of Plymouth Grating Laboratory, Inc. and previously served as site leader of Melles Griot and CTO and vice president of business development for the IDEX Optics & Photonics platform. Hendon is an associate professor of electrical engineering and vice dean of diversity and strategic partnerships within the engineering school at Columbia University. Her research contributions include optical systems and methods to extract architectural information and identify structural substrates within tissue.
TOPTICA is a Germany-based company that manufactures and supplies products such as diodes and ultrafast fiber lasers for scientific and industrial applications.