Professor Gérard A. Mourou currently serves as the Directeur of the Laboratoire d' Optique Appliquée at ENSTA-Ecole Polytechnique. He previously served as the A. D. Moore Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and as the Director of the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science at the University of Michigan. 

Professor Mourou has been a pioneer in the field of ultrafast lasers and their applications in scientific, engineering and medical disciplines. At the University of Rochester with his students he demonstrated the technique of Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) that has bridged the field of optics traditionally in the electron volt to Relativistic Plasma Physics, Nuclear Physics, High Energy Physics and Astrophysics. In high speed electronics, he introduced the Electrooptic Sampling and the generation of THz pulses. In material science, he showed the first picosecond structural probe (picosecond electron diffraction). At the University of Michigan, with his students, he discovered the light channeling, and the deterministic character of the damage threshold in the femtosecond time scale. With his colleagues, he applied this property to nanomorphing and in ophthalmology to eye surgery, focusing on photorefractive surgery, a technique known as Intralasik. 

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is the recipient of R. W. Wood Prize from the OSA, the Harold E. Edgerton Award, from the SPIE, the D. Sarnoff Award from IEEE. He received from the University of Michigan the Russel Award. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America. 

Dr. Yves Bellouard is Assistant Professor in Micro-/Nano- Scale Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands. He received a BS in Theoretical Physics and a MS in Applied Physics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in France in 1994-1995 and a PhD in Microengineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Switzerland in 2000. Dr. Bellouard is the recipient of the Omega Scientific Prize (2001) awarded by the Omega Foundation for outstanding individual contributions in the field of Micro-engineering, Condensed Matter Physics and Chronometry for his work on Shape Memory Alloys. 

Before joining Eindhoven University of Technology, Dr. Bellouard worked as a Research Scientist at the Center for Automation Technologies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York where he also taught Precision Engineering and Micro-Robotics. While at Rensselaer, he closely collaborated with Translume on its development of novel integrated monolithic devices that incorporate both optical and mechanical functions.

Dr. Wayne Knox is Director and Professor of Optics at The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester since April 2001. He received the BS degree from The Institute of Optics in 1979 and the Ph.D. degree from The Institute of Optics in 1984. He went to Bell Laboratories as a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff in 1984, and was promoted to Member of Technical Staff in 1985. In 1993, he was promoted to Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, and in 1997 to Director of the Advanced Photonics Research Department. 

He has chaired many international scientific meetings such as the Ultrafast Phenomena Meeting, CLEO, OSA Annual Meeting, Ultrafast Electronics and Optoelectronics, and the Quantum Optoelectronics Topical Meeting. His research areas are Ultrafast Sciences and Technology, Telecommunications, Ultrafast Biomedical Optics and Optics Education. He has over 130 publications in referred journals, 40 patents granted and pending, and is Fellow of the Optical Society of America and Fellow and Life Member of the American Physical Society. He received the 1990 Initiatives in Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences, and the 1999 American Association of Physics Teachers Richtmyer Award.

Dr. James W. (Jim) Seeser is the former (retired) vice president-technology from Optical Coating Laboratory Inc. (OCLI), a division of JDS Uniphase. (1983-2001) While at OCLI he was responsible for numerous advanced development programs, including coating processes for optically variable pigments such as those used in most currencies world wide, energy efficient lamps, projection display systems such as the TI DMD, wavelength division multiplexing products for telecommunications, and other applications in aerospace, defense, and medical markets. He also was a board member of Flex Products Inc., a JV with ICI America, and a board member of OpticNet, Inc., both public companies. 

Prior to working at OCLI, Jim taught at Hope College (Holland, MI), serving from 1970 to 1976 on the physics faculty and computer science faculty. 

Jim has advised Translume on product development, potential strategic partnerships, and cost management. His hand-on experience developing advanced manufacturing processes is invaluable to Translume.

Dr. Long Yang joined Microdisplay in April 2004 as the Vice President of Optoelectronics Engineering. Prior to that, Dr. Yang was the Vice President of Engineering at DiCon FiberOptics and the Vice President of R&D of the Amplifier Component Group of JDS Uniphase. At these positions, he led the teams to develop state-of-art fiber optics components and modules. 

As pioneering effects in Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Dr. Yang led a diverse team to develop a Liquid-Crystal-on-Silicon technology for micro-display and was a key contributor to the vertical surface emitting lasers and 50GHz high-speed trigger circuit. While in Bell Laboratories, Dr. Yang worked on the strained quantum-well lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuit using Chemical Beam Epitaxy. Dr. Yang's technical activities covered a wide spectrum, ranging from material science, semiconductor processing, device, circuit, packaging, high speed testing, Optoelectronics module and product reliability.