Spectralus Corporation was founded in 2003 by Dr. Stepan Essaian with the mission to develop high-efficiency, mass-manufacturable, periodically-poled nonlinear optical crystals and laser products enabled by these crystals.Dr. Stepan Essaian is President, CEO, and Founder of Spectralus. He has over 20 years of technical and management experience in solid-state optoelectronics, semiconductor devices, and telecommunications systems and networks. In 2000-02, Dr. Essaian served as the Chief Scientist for Solid State Photonix/Teraburst Networks Co, a leading developer of an OMO analog switch for OXCs. At Teraburst, Dr. Essaian has directed the development of advanced all-optical switch devices for future OXC systems.