Press Coverage

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DATE: January 31, 2012

First Place Award in the Emerging Company category in the Great Lakes Enterpreneur's Quest competition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DATE: September 22, 2011

BioPhotonic Solutions among 53 Semi-Finalists of the Michigan Innovation Competition

Towards lasers that detect roadside bombs news coverage:

CNN

FOX News

MSNBC

Applied Physics Letter publication detailing the research

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DATE: April 19, 2011

BioPhotonic Solutions Inc. Honored as One of the 2011 “Michigan 50 Companies to Watch”...
(East Lansing) – BioPhotonic Solutions Inc. has been recognized as one of the 2011 “Michigan 50 Companies to Watch,” an awards program sponsored by the Edward Lowe Foundation and presented by Michigan Celebrates Small Business. For full document press here.

An article on 'Painless biopsies with smart lasers:

posted February 2011.

Using laser microscopes that deploy rapid, ultra-short pulses to identify molecules, doctors may soon have the tools to perform painless skin cancer biopsies...

An article on 'Smart Lasers'in Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry:

posted January 2011.

Researchers at Michigan State University are working to develop laser microscopes that deliver rapid pulses to identify specific molecules

Our CTO, Igor Pastirk was selected as one of the Michigan's top executives by Corp! magazine:

Corp! Magazine Nov/Dec 2010

Michigan Business Leaders — Thriving in the New Economy By Lynne R. Zacharias November/December, 2010
Business leaders are under more pressure than ever to navigate and succeed in this challenging economy. Corp! magazine chose to recognize the state’s top executives who are finding success and continuing to move toward the future with its inaugural Michigan’s Top Chief Executives recognition program.
Only 21 leaders were chosen for this recognition. The winning executives are driving innovation, bringing business to Michigan and generally making business happen.Read More...

Removing the applications bottleneck for ultrafast lasers

Archive LASER+PHOTONICS - Issue 2010/01

Applications that require ultrafast lasers depend on the generation and reliable delivery of ultrashort pulses to the target. While the generation difficulties have essentially been surmounted, reproducible delivery of pulses shorter than 50fs has prevented their entry into mainstream applications. This article presents a new technology to adaptively overcoming the difficulty of ultrashort pulse delivery.Read More...

Real-time pulse characterization and more

Femtosecond pulse shaping, Nature Photonics 4, 157 (2010) doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.24

The femtoFit from BioPhotonic Solutions is an ultrashort-pulse shaper that has three functions: accurate arbitrary pulse shaping, fast phase measurement and pulse compression to within 1% of the theoretical bandwidth limit.Read More...

East Lansing Laser Co's New Headquarters Increases Space by 33 Percent

Capital Gains, 03/11/2009

BioPhotonic Solutions just opened its new headquarters in East Lansing, increasing its space... Read More...

New Laser Technology, New HQ From East Lansing Firm

Great Lakes IT Report Posted: Tuesday, 03/03/2009 5:58PM

BioPhotonic Solutions Inc. of East Lansing has created and patented a new, breakthrough laser technology that will revolutionize the use of ultrafast lasers in industry, medicine, scientific research, and even homeland security... Read More...

Biophotonic Solutions of Okemos Taps Hot Global Laser Market

Capital Gains, 10/17/2007

“We’re creating the market, we are creating the needs and we are seeing that market grow,” Dantus says about... Read More...

Smart lasers promise technology, jobs

MSU Today 11/20/2006

Lasers capable of everything from monitoring diseases to enhancing metabolic studies of drug interactions are the future of modern medicine and promise to draw high-tech jobs to Michigan... Read More....

$17.1 million, 185 jobs: State grants, loans encourage new products and research

Lansing State Journal 11/10/2006

By Jeremy W. Steele Lansing State Journal

Nearly six years ago, a research team at Michigan State University filed its first patent request for a new laser technology. On Wednesday, chemistry professor Marcos Dantus was awarded $1.4 million in state aid to help turn those lasers into viable products... Read More...

Mid-Michigan Small Business Wins Large Homeland Security Grant

MITechNews.com Wednesday, 10/05/2005

OKEMOS — Biophotonic Solutions Inc. has received a $750,000 grant from the Department of Defense to develop technology born at Michigan State University to which will be used to shape laser pulse technology for the fast and accurate detection and identification of chemicals... Read More...