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Peter Vitruk, PhD
Company Overview \| Mission \| America-Based \| History \| References \| Management \| Employment Peter Vitruk, PhD \| Paul Diaz, MSEE
Inventor, technologist, scientist and entrepreneur with focus on surgical laser technologies PhD holder in RF plasma and laser technologies 20+ years of successful laser technology and new product development in academia and industry, including basic and applied R&D "... one of the leading authorities worldwide ..." on "... gas discharge physics and in particular the study of the structure and stability of radiofrequency discharges" (peer reference, 1996)
PRINCIPAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2002 - Present	Co-founder and manager of Luxarcare LLC, and Aesculight LLC - American based (Seattle, WA, USA) surgical CO2 laser service and manufacturing companies with over 12,000 customers world-wide and growing.
2000	Work on atomic slab Xenon laser is re-printed in SPIE Milestone Series, vol. MS159, page 518.
1998 - 2002	Developer of Luxar's 25W industrial laser product line at Luxar/ESC/Lumenis, Seattle, WA, USA.
1995 - 98	Project manager, world's first 600W sealed industrial slab CO2 laser at Synrad, Inc, Seattle, WA, USA.
1995	Contributor to development of world's most powerful and compact atomic CW Xenon laser at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
1991 - 95	Contributor to development of world's first table-top 1,000 Watt slab CO2 laser at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
	Contributor to development of world fastest switching slab CO2 laser at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
1994	Contributor to development of scaling rules for sealed CO2 gas lasers at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
1988 - 91	World's first measurement of V-I-W characteristics of RF plasma in CO2 gas lasers at the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, USSR.
EDUCATION
1985 - 90	PhD in Physics	Department of Molecular and Chemical Physics, Moscow Physics & Technology Institute, Moscow, USSR
1979 - 85	MSc in Physics	Department of Molecular and Chemical Physics, Moscow Physics & Technology Institute, Moscow, USSR
PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS P. Vitruk, P. Diaz, et al, "RF excited gas laser", US Patent 7,145,926 P. Vitruk, P. Diaz, "Flexible hollow waveguide...", US Patent 7,079,739 P. Vitruk, "Truncated ridge waveguide for all-metal gas laser excitation", US Patent 6,711,201 P. Vitruk, "Stable multi-fold telescopic laser resonator", US Patent 6,442,186. P. Vitruk, "All-metal, DC excited laser with RF pre-ionization", US Patent 6,442,185. P. Vitruk and J. A. Broderick, "All metal electrode sealed gas laser", US Patent 5,953,360. P. Vitruk et al, "Laser with split-wave hybrid resonator", US Patent 5,892,782. P. Vitruk, "Variable aperture cavity laser", US Patent 5,822,354. P. Vitruk, "Gas laser", USSR patent 1382343, 11.05.1986. P. Vitruk and N. A. Yatsenko, "RF excited gas laser", USSR patent 1644269, 29.07.1988. P. Vitruk and N. A. Yatsenko, "Industrial gas laser system", USSR patent 1644270, 29.07.1988. P. Vitruk, "RF capacitive discharges in diffusion-cooled slab gas lasers", PhD Thesis, Moscow Physics & Technology Institute, Moscow, Russia, 1990. P. Vitruk and N. A. Yatsenko, "Small RF excited waveguide CO2 laser of medium power", Pis'ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz., 15, 1989, pp. 1-5. A. D. Colley, P. Vitruk, H. J. Baker and D. R. Hall, "Compact sealed slab waveguide CO2 lasers at 1 kW", Proc. CLEO'92, Anaheim, May 10-15, 1992, p. 608. K. M. Abramski, H. J. Baker, A. D. Colley, D. R. Hall, C. J. Shackleton and P. Vitruk, "Compact diffusion-cooled array and slab carbon dioxide lasers at the 1kW level", Proc. Int. Conf. on Laser Advanced Materials Processing, Nagaoka, Japan, 7-12 June, 1992, pp. 73-77. P. Vitruk, H. J. Baker and D. R. Hall, "The stability and characteristics of CO2 slab laser alpha RF discharges at 100 MHz", Proc. 10-th Int. Conf. on Gas Discharges and their Applications, Swansea, UK, 13-18 September, 1992, 2, pp. 534-535. P. Vitruk, H. J. Baker and D. R. Hall, "The characteristics and stability of high power transverse radio frequency discharges for waveguide CO2 slab laser excitation", J. Phys. D.: Appl. Phys. 25, 1992, 1767-1776. H. J. Baker, A. D. Colley, D. R. Hall, C. J. Shackleton, F. Villarreal and P. Vitruk, "High power cw slab-waveguide molecular lasers", 11-th UK Conf. on Quantum Electronics, Belfast,Sept. 1993. P. Vitruk, H. J. Baker and D. R. Hall, "Similarity and scaling in diffusion-cooled RF excited carbon dioxide lasers", IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, QE-30, 1994, N7, pp.1623-1634. A.D. Colley, P. Vitruk, L. A. Doyle, H. J. Baker and D. R. Hall, "RF discharge uniformity control in kilowatt class, RF excited, large-area electrode CO2 lasers", Proc. Conf. Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO-Europe'94, Amsterdam, Holland, 28 Aug-2 Sept 1994, paper CML1. G. Yu, H. J. Baker, P. Vitruk and D. R. Hall, "Transverse RF excited, table-top fast-axial-flow CO laser with 1kW output power", Proc. Conf. Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO-Europe'94, Amsterdam, Holland, 28 Aug-2 Sept 1994, paper CWH3. F. Villarreal, A. A. Cameron, A. D. Colley, P. Vitruk, H. J. Baker and D. R. Hall, "High pressure CW molecular gas lasers using narrow gap slab waveguides", Proc. CLEO'95, Baltimore, USA, June 1995, CMJ4. P. Vitruk, R. J. Morley, H. J. Baker and D. R. Hall "High power continuous wave atomic Xe gas laser with radiofrequency excitation", Appl. Phys. Lett., 67, 1995, N 10, pp. 1366-1368. P. Vitruk et al, "700 W, diffusion-cooled, large area, 40.68 MHz excited CO2 laser employing split-wave hybrid confocal resonator", SFHPLAC'98, Santa Fe, NM, 26-30 April 1998.

Peter Vitruk, PhD