{"id":2514,"date":"2012-05-01T20:41:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T20:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2012-05-01T20:41:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T20:41:53","slug":"physics-professor-quoted-in-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/physics-professor-quoted-in-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser-optics company moves to Oviedo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leonid Glebov stands amid the beams, wires and metal studs of what will soon be the new home of OptiGrate Corp., the laser-optics company he helped found more than a dozen years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a big move for the small business, the laser scientist said last week as he checked on the construction&#8217;s progress. Until now, the company has been a tenant in Central Florida Research Park as part of the University of Central Florida&#8217;s business incubator.<\/p>\n<p>OptiGrate will nearly double its space when it moves into the new, 10,000-square-foot facility in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/topic\/PLGEO100100414070000.topic\">Oviedo<\/a>. Its expansion, Glebov said, is driven by growing sales of its tiny electro-optic components, used in everything from military communications gear to medical equipment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I won&#8217;t say we&#8217;ll double our employees in a year \u2014 no, not that fast,&#8221; said <strong>Glebov, an award-winning UCF physicist<\/strong> who immigrated from Russia in the mid-1990s and became a U.S. citizen a few years ago. &#8220;We expect growth to be steady as our sales increase. This is all very exciting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OptiGrate is not alone, according to laser-optics experts in Central Florida, which has one of the largest concentrations of such companies in the country. Many laser firms are now in hiring mode, filling high-paying\u00a0<a id=\"itxthook1\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.orlandosentinel.com\/2012-04-22\/business\/os-cfb-manufacturing-cover-0423-20120422_1_smaller-laser-companies-optics-job-growth#\">technology<\/a> jobs that exceed by 25 percent or more the average annual wage of about $40,000 in Orange County.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from the <em>Orlando Sentinel<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.orlandosentinel.com\/2012-04-22\/business\/os-cfb-manufacturing-cover-0423-20120422_1_smaller-laser-companies-optics-job-growth\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonid Glebov stands amid the beams, wires and metal studs of what will soon be the new home of OptiGrate Corp., the laser-optics company he helped found more than a dozen years ago. 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