David C. Brown ^{Top-Executive}

Advanced Photonic Sciences (APS) is a technology-driven photonics company that was organized in 2003 as Snake Creek Lasers, LLC. Today the company legally does business as Advanced Photonic Sciences, having recently converted to a C-Corporation. Our company develops and manufactures not just individual laser devices, but also modules and systems and custom devices that incorporate optical, electro-optic, spectroscopic, and nonlinear optical components, and advanced electronics technologies.

APS is located in beautiful northeast Pennsylvania, in a modern facility that contains offices, research and development laboratories, and manufacturing.

The company was founded by Dr. David C. Brown, a renowned laser physicist with over 45 years of experience in optics and lasers who has made seminal contributions to those fields. Prior to founding APS, Dr. Brown worked at senior research positions in projects at General Electric in Syracuse, Schenectady, and Binghamton, all in NY, at The Laboratory for Laser Energetics at The University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, and at Northrop-Grumman in Redondo Beach, CA. He is a scientific reviewer for sixteen highly regarded laser and optics journals, including most Optica and IEEE journals, and is an author of or contributor to sixteen U.S. patents or patents pending.

In 2019 Dr. Brown was elected a Fellow of Optica, “for industrial leadership and pioneering research in rare-earth activated lasers, rare-earth doped cryogenic laser technology, and the understanding of thermal effects in fiber lasers and cryogenic lasers”.

Our company has a long history of scientific collaborations, with organizations such as Clemson University, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, Binghamton University, Montana State University, and others. Most collaborations involve optical spectroscopy of rare-earth and transition metal doped laser crystals and glasses, while others are focused on 3-D printing and advanced electronics and printed circuit boards.