John Khaydarov is Director of Engineering. John joined Spectralus in October 2007 and is responsible for laser engineering. He has more than 20 years of experience in solid-state lasers, widely tunable optical parametric devices, nonlinear and fiber optics, and high-speed fiber-optical telecommunications. Before joining Spectralus Dr. Khaydarov held senior engineering positions at Continuum Electro-Optics and Optimight Communications where he led development and productization of numerous commercially-successful solid-state laser and tunable products for industrial, scientific, medical, and telecommunication markets. Dr. Khaydarov authored more than 50 publications and presentations and number of patents protecting laser and telecommunication system designs. Dr. Khaydarov received his M.S. in Physics from Moscow State University and Ph.D. in Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics from the General Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences (also in Moscow, Russia).