Dr. Andy Piper, Vice President, New Product Development

Andy brings to DenseLight over 15 years of manufacturing & R&D experience in Optoelectronics & Laser Physics with focus on high power lasers, Fibre amplifiers & LIDAR. Prior to joining DenseLight, he was the CTO of iLuma Photonics, where he lead the development of award winning industrial laser products. He designed, developed and built manufacturing and production process from scratch, using lean & modular manufacturing methods. In addition to this, he was also worked with suppliers to ensure they met iLuma’s stringent quality & reliability requirements. Before joining iLuma, Andy spend a number of years as a laser development engineer, spending time developing among other things, Red Energy Pulsed laser modules.

Andy has doctorate and a BEng Degree with 1st Class Hons from the University of Southampton, and in named as co-inventor in a number of patents.