Applied Energetics, Inc. announced that Dr. James Harrison has been named director of new product innovation for the company, effective April 3, 2024. With more than 30 years of experience in opto-electronic sources, Dr. Harrison joins the team with a proven track record of designing, building and scaling products that drive business growth and deliver customers innovative new products and technologies. Dr. Harrison is an experienced professional in the area of laser sources including design, manufacturing, program management and business development, with an emphasis on semiconductor and solid-state lasers.

He has held global leadership positions in engineering and research and development with tier-1 suppliers of photonics devices, where his responsibilities included providing substantial support for volume manufacturing of semiconductor lasers and packaged sources. In this new role, Dr. Harrison will have executive responsibility for Applied Energetics' new product innovation, which will include setting a vision and strategy that supports and accelerates the entire development lifecycle of optical and laser products, from conceptualization to commercialization. Dr. Harrison will collaborate with leaders across business development, operations, and scientific to drive the Company's strategic goal of providing cutting-edge laser and optical products to national security and commercial customers.

About Dr. Harrison: Dr. Harrison has been engaged in the development of laser and opto-electronic sources throughout his career at U.S. National Laboratories and in industry, with a focus on design and manufacturing of semiconductor-laser devices and solid-state lasers. His recent work includes the development of GaN-pumped sources for applications including illumination, remote sensing and trace-gas detection, and UV systems for surface sterilization. Dr. Harrison joins Applied Energetics from Kyocera-SLD Laser, where he was Senior Principal Engineer, focusing on the development of packaged products for automotive and avionic applications, including fiber-coupled white-light sources and associated electronics.

Prior to this role, he was the founder of FlexLite Corporation which pioneered wireless, wearable devices for light therapy. The Company was sold in 2017 to a leading supplier of clinical systems. Dr. Harrison has held global leadership positions in R&D with tier-1 suppliers of photonics devices (Oclaro, Newport/Spectra-Physics, Coherent). His responsibilities in these roles included substantial support for volume manufacturing of semiconductor lasers and packaged sources.

Dr. Harrison started his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in the Laser Isotope Separation program, as an electronics engineer. Dr. Harrison has authored numerous publications and patents. Dr. Harrison earned his B.S, E.E., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.