LPTH Press Release: LightPath Technologies Adjourns Annual Meeting Until February 25

LightPath Technologies Adjourns Annual Meeting Until February 25 For Immediate Release: ORLANDO, FL - January 28, 2016 - LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) (“LightPath,” the “Company” or “we”), a leading vertically integrated global manufacturer, distributor and integrator of proprietary optical and infrared componentsand high-level assemblies, announced today that its Annual Meeting of Shareholders scheduled for January 28, 2016 has been adjourned to February 25, 2016 at 11:00 am ET, and will take place at the Company’s offices at 2603 Challenger Tech Court, Suite 130, Orlando, FL 32826. The adjournment period will allow for the continued solicitation of proxies from shareholders with respect to Proposal 2, the proposal to increase the board size from seven to twelve directors, and Proposal 3, the proposal to modify the percentage of shareholder votes needed to change the board size, from 85% to a majority of shares represented. Shareholders who have already voted do not need to recast their votes. Proxies previously submitted will be voted at the reconvened meeting unless properly revoked. Shareholders who have not already voted or wish to change their vote are encouraged to do so using the instructions provided in your voting instruction form or proxy card. The Company filed a proxy statement for its 2016 Annual Meeting with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 18, 2015. Shareholders as of the record date of December 1, 2015 who have not yet voted are encouraged to vote during the adjournment period. Additionally, shareholders are urged to read the proxy statement and other relevant information on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As of January 28, 2016, the proposals had the support of over 80% of the Company’s outstanding shares. Under the Company’s articles of incorporation the proposals require support from 85% of the outstanding shares. During the period of adjournment, the Company will continue to solicit proxies from stockholders. Stockholders who have not yet voted are encouraged to do so before February 25, 2016. If stockholders need any assistance in voting their shares, please contact the Company’s proxy solicitor, Alliance Advisors, LLC, at 877-777-8133 or via email atLPTH@allianceadvisorsllc.com. About LightPath Technologies LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) provides optics and photonics solutions for the industrial, defense, telecommunications, testing and measurement, and medical industries. LightPath designs, manufactures, and distributes optical and infrared components including molded glass aspheric lenses and assemblies, infrared lenses and thermal imaging assemblies, fused fiber collimators, and gradient index GRADIUM® lenses. LightPath also offers custom optical assemblies, including full engineering design support.  For more information, visit www.lightpath.com. This news release includes statements that constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding our ability to expand our presence in certain markets, future sales growth, continuing reductions in cash usage and implementation of new distribution channels.  This information may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements.  Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, factors detailed by LightPath Technologies, Inc. in its public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Except as required under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, we do not have any intention or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Contacts: Jim Gaynor, President & CEO                        Dorothy Cipolla, CFO                        Jordan Darrow LightPath Technologies, Inc.                           LightPath Technologies, Inc.               Darrow Associates, Inc. Tel: 407-382-4003                                           Tel: 407-382-4003 x305                     Tel: 631-367-1866

LPTH Press Release: LightPath Technologies Exhibiting at SPIE Photonics West 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: LightPath Technologies Exhibiting at SPIE Photonics West 2016 LightPath to Show New Products to an Expected 20,000 Attendees and 1,250 Vendors For Immediate Release: ORLANDO, FL - January 14, 2016 - LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) (“LightPath,” the “Company” or “we”), a leading vertically integratedglobal manufacturer, distributor and integrator of proprietary optical and infrared components and high-level assemblies, today announced it will exhibit at the SPIE Photonics West 2016 Exhibition.  The show will take place on February 16-18, 2016 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.  LightPath will occupy Booth #722 located within the conference center in the South Hall.  To learn more about LightPath’s Precision Glass Molding capabilities, an open invitation is extended to all attending the show.  Some of the highlighted products to be displayed include: • Acylindrical Lenses • Aspheric Mirrors • Insert Molding • Lens Edging, Dicing, and Edge Blackening • Thermal Imaging Lens Assemblies LightPath’s Executive VP of Operations, Alan Symmons will be teaching a class during the show on the Fundamentals of Molded Optics, Wednesday, February 17th from 8:30am to 12:30pm and LightPath’s Senior Optical Engineer and expert in Laser optics Andrew A. Chesworth, PhD. will be  presenting a paper, Thursday, February 18th from 9:50am - 10:10am,  as part of SPIE OPTO on Novel fiber fused lens for advanced optical communication systems. LightPath Technologies will be represented by a full complement of its sales and technical staff.  Jim Gaynor, the Company’s CEO, commented, “We look forward to the opportunity to demonstrate our advanced manufacturing capabilities and custom options to OEMs, partners, and prospects while continuing to increase the market’s awareness and acceptance of our optics and photonics solutions.”  SPIE Photonics West the #1 laser, photonics, and biomedical optics conference: 20,000 attendees, two exhibitions, over 1,250 exhibiting companies, 70 special events, 4,800 papers About LightPath Technologies LightPath provides optics and photonics solutions for the industrial, defense, telecommunications, testing and measurement, and medical industries. LightPath designs, manufactures, and distributes optical and infrared components including molded glass aspheric lenses and assemblies, infrared lenses and thermal imaging assemblies, fused fiber collimators, and gradient index GRADIUM® lenses. LightPath also offers custom optical assemblies, and gradient index GRADIUM® lenses. LightPath also offers custom optical assemblies, including full engineering design support.  For more information, visit www.lightpath.com. This news release includes statements that constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding our ability to expand our presence in certain markets, future sales growth, continuing reductions in cash usage and implementation of new distribution channels. This information may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, factors detailed by LightPath Technologies, Inc. in its public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, we do not have any intention or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. ### Contact: Kimberly Clifton Marketing Manager 407-382-4003 Ext 337

Seminar: "Transparent glass-ceramics for photonics applications produced by melting and sol-gel" by Dr. Maria Jesus Pascual 1.21.16/11:00am-12:00pm/ CREOL RM 103

Seminar: "Transparent glass-ceramics for photonics applications produced by melting and sol-gel" by Dr. Maria Jesus Pascual

Thursday, January 21, 2016 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room 103

G.Gorni ¹, S.Pelli², J.J. Velázquez¹, Y.Castro¹ , A.Durán¹, R.Balda³, M.J. Pascual¹

¹Ceramics and Glass Institute (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

²MDF Lab, Applied Physics Institute Nello Carrera (IFAC-CNR), Firenze, Italy

³Applied Physics Dept. I, Superior School of Engineering, Bilbao, Spain

Abstract:

Transparent oxyfluoride nano-glass-ceramics doped with RE ions are very interesting materials for photonics applications. They combine the good mechanical, chemical and thermal stability of oxide glasses with the fluoride crystals, very good host for RE ions and suitable for optical properties due to their low phonon energies. The processing route is a key issue for a suitable preparation of these materials. The typical glass processing method is the melting–quenching (MQ) but the sol-gel (SG) method is a promising alternative. MQ requires high melting temperatures with a limitation in the fluorine content. However, bulk materials and fibers can be easily obtained. SG is a cheap and low-temperature technique that allows a better control of composition and doping level. SG materials have high homogeneity and purity. Thin film can be easily obtained but bulk materials are difficult to prepare and fiber.

Oxyfluoride glass-ceramics with LaF₃ nanocrystals obtained by MQ and SG will be presented as study example of the processing parameters. Doping with Pr³⁺/Yb³⁺ has been used to study the down-conversion process and also doping with Nd³⁺ to study the laser emission properties. The crystallization process has been described using DTA taking into account the effect of the dopants. The glass-ceramics were also studied by XRD and HR-TEM. Finally, the relation between processing-structure-optical properties of these materials is discussed.

Biography:

Doctor in Chemistry (2000) from Autónoma University of Madrid (UAM), Spain. Tenured Scientist in the Glass Department of the Ceramics and Glass Institute (ICV) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) since 2007. She has carried post-doctoral stages in Otto-Schott Institute Jena (Germany), RWTH Aachen (Germany), Aveiro University (Portugal), UFSCar and UEPG (Brazil).  Secretary of the Glass Section of the SECV (Spanish Society of Ceramic and Glass) since 2008. Gottardi Prize in 2010 given by the International Commission on Glass (ICG). Current ICG Treasurer.

Research interests:

-                Glasses and glass-ceramics: melting, thermal properties, phase separation, crystallization, sintering…

-               Glass sealing materials for low and high temperature devices.

-               Glass-ceramics with nanocrystals for photonic applications.

Ceramics and Glass Institute (CSIC): www.icv.csic.es

Research group GlaSS: http://glass.icv.csic.es/index.php

For additional information:

Prof. Kathleen Richardson

407-823-6815

George Stegeman Memorial Symposium, January 7-8, 2016

To honor Prof. George I. Stegeman’s  seminal contributions in optics, CREOL is organizing a memorial symposium this coming January (January 7-8, 2016) at the University of Central Florida. This symposium will give an opportunity to his many colleagues and friends to celebrate his legacy. We will be delighted if you could join us in this event.

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.creol.ucf.edu/NewsEvents/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1113

Please register and print your parking pass at http://www.creol.ucf.edu/NewsEvents/EventRegistration.aspx?EventID=1113

Best regards,

Bahaa Saleh
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics
University of Central Florida
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32816-2700
(407) 882-3326

Seminar: "Glasses for Photonics and Specialty Optical Fibres Group at the Politecnico di Torino" by Professor Monica Ferraris 1.22.16/10:00am-11:00am/ CREOL RM 102/103

Seminar: "Glasses for Photonics and Specialty Optical Fibres Group at the Politecnico di Torino" by Professor Monica Ferraris

Friday, January 22, 2016 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
CREOL Room 102/103

Professor Monica Ferraris

Politecnico di Torino

ABSTRACT:  

The activity on new glasses for photonics and sensing done at Politecnico di Torino during the past 20 years will be briefly reviewed and discussed. In particular, examples will be given on soft glass optical fibers for several applications, ranging from optical fiber lasers and amplifiers to supercontinuum generation and remote sensing/switching applications. Examples of passive and active tellurite glasses and optical fibers for telecom, sensing and Red-Green-Blue sources and rare earth doped phosphate glasses and optical fibersfor short pulsed fiber lasers will be presented.  Soft glasses are prepared by melt quenching technique in a controlled atmosphere furnace and then cast on brass molds. The preforms are fabricated by rod-in-tube technique with the tubes manufactured using the rotational casting technique. Specialty optical fibers are fabricated by preform drawing carried out using an in-house custom optical fiber drawing tower. In-line measurement of fiber diameter and tension has enabled stable and reproducible optical fibers suitable for the demonstration of amplification and laser activity.

Some cross-cutting activities have been recently started dealing with the design and fabrication of bioresorbable optical fibres for diagnosis and therapy and with  RF co-sputtering of metal nanocluster doped silica thin films for antiseptic and/or bio-sensing application. Preliminary results will be reported.

BIOGRAPHY:

Prof. Monica Ferraris received a M.S. in Chemistry in 1985 from the University of Torino, Italy.  In 1985 she joined the Italian Telecom Research Centre (CSELT-Torino) to work on fluoride glasses for ultra low loss optical fibers.  In 1990 she moved to Fiat Research Centre (CRF-Torino) where she worked on metal and ceramic matrix composites for automotive applications.  She joined Politecnico di Torino in 1991, where she is now full Professor of Materials Science and Technology (since 2005) and group leader (http://www.composites.polito.it).  Her academic and research interests are focused  on glasses, ceramics and composites for several applications including photonics, medical applications, waste management, joining and coating for energy production and transports. 

CONTACT: 

Prof. Kathleen Richardson

407-823-6815

TOMORROW! Seminar: "Optical Metamaterials: from Linear Responses to Nonlinear Interactions and beyond" by Wenshan Cai 11.24.15/11:00am-12:00pm/ CREOL RM 103

Seminar: "Optical Metamaterials: from Linear Responses to Nonlinear Interactions and beyond" by Wenshan Cai

Tuesday, November 24, 2015 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room 103

Celebrating the International Year of Light 2015

Abstract:

Nanostructured metals have provided us with a unique opportunity to manipulate light in an unconventional manner. Collectively, subwavelength metallic structures serve as building blocks for optical metamaterials with properties that were not observed or even speculated about in the past. This is a very exciting frontier in optics and materials science, with the promising goal of yielding better solar cells, faster computer chips, ultrasensitive biochemical detectors, and even invisible devices. While metamaterials are commonly viewed as artificially-structured media capable of realizing exotic electromagnetic properties, we can drive beyond this limited vision and explore the use of optical metamaterials as a generalizable platform for optoelectronic information technology. In this talk I will start with a general description of metamaterials in the conventional linear regime, include experimental demonstrations of the first magnetic metamaterial across the entire visible spectrum, and the world’s first negative-index material at optical frequencies. In the second half of the talk I will steer towards nonlinear light-matter interactions in optical metamaterials, including the electrically induced harmonic generation and optical rectification of light in a perfect metamaterial absorber, the nonlinear spectroscopy and imaging of a chiral metamaterial, and the backward phase-matching in an optical metamaterial where the fundamental and frequency-doubled waves possess opposite indices of refraction.

Biography

Wenshan Cai is an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a joint appointment in Materials Science and Engineering. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 2012, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials at Stanford University. Dr. Cai received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2008. His scientific research is in the area of nanophotonic materials and devices, in which he has made a major impact on the evolving field of plasmonics and metamaterials. Dr. Cai has published ~40 journal papers in highly prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Materials, Nature Photonics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, etc., and the total citations of his papers have reached over 6,000 within the past few years. He serves as a reviewer or an editorial board member for over 20 scientific journals. In addition, Dr. Cai is the lead author of the book Optical Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications, a text used at many universities around the world, for which he won the 2014 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award from OSA and SPIE.

For additional information:

Dr. Mercedeh Khajavikhan

407-823-6829

LightPath Technologies Schedules Fiscal 2016 First Quarter Financial Results Conference Call for November 5

For Immediate Release LightPath Technologies Schedules Fiscal 2016 First Quarter Financial Results Conference Call for November 5 ORLANDO, FL – October 13, 2015 – LightPath Technologies, Inc. (“LightPath,” the “Company” or “we”) (NASDAQ: LPTH), a leading vertically integrated global manufacturer, distributor and integrator of proprietary optical and infrared componentsand high-level assemblies, today announced the scheduling of its fiscal 2016 first quarter financial results press release issuance and the corresponding conference call and simultaneous webcast.  The press release will be issued on November 5, 2015 after the close of the stock market.  Investor Conference Call and Webcast Details: Date: Thursday, November 5, 2015 Time: 4:30 PM (ET) Dial-in Number: 1-800-860-2442   International Dial-in Number: 1-412-858-4600  Webcast: http://services.choruscall.com/links/lpth151105 Participants are recommended to dial-in or log-on approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the event. A replay of the call will be available approximately one hour after completion through November 19, 2015. To listen to the replay, dial 1-877-344-7529(domestic) or 1-412-317-0088 (international), and enter conference ID # 10074406. About LightPath Technologies LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) provides optics and photonics solutions for the industrial, defense, telecommunications, testing and measurement, and medical industries. LightPath designs, manufactures, and distributes optical and infrared components including molded glass aspheric lenses and assemblies, infrared lenses and thermal imaging assemblies, fused fiber collimators, and gradient index GRADIUM® lenses. LightPath also offers custom optical assemblies, including full engineering design support.  For more information, visit www.lightpath.com. This news release includes statements that constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding our ability to expand our presence in certain markets, future sales growth, continuing reductions in cash usage and implementation of new distribution channels.  This information may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements.  Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, factors detailed by LightPath Technologies, Inc. in its public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Except as required under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, we do not have any intention or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.       Contacts: Jim Gaynor, President & CEO                        Dorothy Cipolla, CFO                      Jordan Darrow LightPath Technologies, Inc.                             LightPath Technologies, Inc.            Darrow Associates, Inc. Tel: 407-382-4003                                                Tel: 407-382-4003 x305                   Tel: 631-367-1866