Goals & Achievements

Quality Education and Research in Optical Science

Innovative education and research by OpTeC members has strengthened the optics industry in Montana by educating employees and helping developing new products sold by local optical companies to customers around the world. OpTeC teams are at the forefront of optical research and interact with local optics companies and with optical researchers from around the world. We provide a world-class education in optical science and engineering through the departments of Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Chemistry. Students are welcome to take classes in all of these and other departments. Each OpTeC research group supports undergraduate and graduate students to work on their research projects.

Collaborations with Industry & Other Researchers

Local Industry Collaborators (Bozeman):

• AdVR Inc.
• Big Sky Laser Technologies
• ILX Lightwave Corporation
• Lattice Materials
• Resonon Inc.
• Scientific Materials Corporation

National and International Contacts:

• NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., MD
• NASA Langley, VA
• NASA Stennis Space Center, MS
• NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory, CO
• University of Arizona, Optical Sciences Center
• University of Alaska, Geophysical Institute
• Air Force Research Laboratory, NM
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research, VA
• IBM Almaden Research Ctr, CA
• Sandia National Labs, NM
• Laser Photonics Technology Inc., NY
• Loker Hydrocarbon Institute, CA
• Wright Laboratories / MLPJ, OH
• Argonne National Laboratory, IL
• Clarendon Lab., Univ. of Oxford, UK
• Materials Research Center, Sheffield Univ., UK
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France
• National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Japan

Hosting an Annual Optical Conference

Each year OpTeC sponsors an Optical Science and Laser Technology conference featuring speakers from industry at the local and national level, as well as presentations from MSU undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs and faculty. Keynote speakers in past years have included directors from National Centers: Center for High Technology Materials, U of New Mexico; and Optical Sciences Center, U of Arizona; faculty from Cornell University, Dartmouth College, CREOL, U of Central Florida, and Optical Sciences Center, U. of Arizona; and researchers from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, and the Environmental Technology Laboratory, CO.

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