Dr. Ivan Divliansky is the Founder and current CEO of Hololase Photonics LLC. He is also a Research Associate Professor of Optics & Photonics at CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics at UCF. He has broad research expirience in the areas of high-power laser beam combining, solid state and fiber laser systems design, design and applications of volume Bragg gratings and other volume diffractive elements. 

Dr. Divliansky graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering /Materials Science from The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to that, he earned his B.S. and M.S. from the Physics department of Sofia University, Bulgaria.

Dr. Divliansky has publications in journals such as Nature Photonics, Light: Science & Applications, Advanced Materials, Applied Physics Letters, Optics Letters, and others. He has edited one book and co-authored two book chapters, co-authored four patents, and is an Associate Editor within the editorial board of Frontiers in Physics, specialty section Optics and Photonics.

Dr. Divliansky served as a chair of Optica’s Holography and Diffractive optics technical group.