Biography

Denis Julien Gendron, Director of R&D, Claire Lasers Corporation, received his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo. Denis J. Gendron earned a Physics B.Sc. Coop degree in 1988 from U. de Sherbrooke, with specialty in semiconductor manufacturing. In 1997, he graduated with Physics PhD from University of Waterloo, for his study of photodissociation and photo-ionization processes at molecular-level with pulsed laser in supersonic jet.  After graduation, he built the pulsed laser laboratory of Donna Strickland at U. of Waterloo (2018 Nobel Prize of Physics). In 1998, he joined the National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, ON) as Research Associate, and then worked as a laser engineer for Fibertek Inc. (Herndon VA) in 2000, and Spectra-Physics Lasers Inc. (SPLI, Mountain View, CA) in 2001, and Coherent-AMT (now Clarion Medical, Cambridge, ON) in 2002. In 2003, Denis founded Claire Lasers to serve manufacturing industries. He has co-authored many papers in international journals and conferences in fields of chemical physics, laser science and engineering and biomedical lasers.  He authored 3 patents.