GDAC Photonics, Inc.

Producing an advanced semiconductor light source for fiber optic gyro navigational guidance, medical imaging, and smart fiber sensors.

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Electronics / Instrumentation
  • Location Princeton, NJ, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded March 2018
  • Employees 2
  • Incorporation Type C-corp

Company Summary

Producing a new class of semiconductor broadband light source, called the double-pass light source (DPLS), with higher power, higher efficiency, and broader spectrum than the state-of-the-art superluminescent light-emitting diode (SLD), previously invented by our founder, G. A. Alphonse, now in use in fiber gyroscopes and OCT ophthalmic systems, with future applications to smart fiber sensors.

Team

  • Don Carlin
    COO

    SB, SM MIT in Physics, PhD Yale in Applied Physics, Post-Doc and Business Program at Harvard. Long experience in optoelectronics including Group Head at Sarnoff. Previous C-Level experience in technology ventures.

  • Gerry Alphonse
    Chairman and CTO

    Prolific inventor (6- patents) including state-of-the-art SLD currently in widespread use in fiber optic gyro and optical coherence tomography (OCT) applications. Formerly at Sarnoff. BSEE, MSEE (NYU), PhD (Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn). IEEE Fellow and NJ Inventor's Hall of Fame.

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