Luis A. Spinelli — - at Coherent

Mr. Luis A. Spinelli was the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at Coherent, Inc. since February 2004 until January 2018. Mr. Spinelli has over 25 years of experience in the photonics industry, including almost 19 years at Coherent. Mr. Spinelli joined Coherent in May 1985 and until April 1997 held various engineering and managerial positions. In February 1998, he led Coherent's Advanced Research Unit (ARU) from its inception, whose charter is to identify and evaluate new and emerging technologies of interest for Coherent, Inc.'s across a range of disciplines in the laser field. Since October 2002, Mr. Spinelli has served as Vice President for Corporate Research and as Chair of Coherent, Inc.'s Technical Advisory Board. He has been instrumental in the development of a number of Coherent's technologies and products such as deep ultra-violet frequency-doubled ion lasers for semiconductor manufacturing and telecom applications. He is one of the inventors of Kerr Lens Mode-Locking (KLM), one of the most widely used techniques to generate ultra-short pulses in solid-state lasers. Under his direction, the ARU pioneered the development of Optically Pumped Semiconductors Lasers (OPSLs) creating a fundamental platform with a strong intellectual property position for a wide range of laser products. Mr. Spinelli holds a Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina with post-graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds nineteen patents in various areas of laser technology.