Eugene G. Arthurs

Eugene G. Arthurs joined SPIE staff as Executive Director in November 1999. Prior to this he was President and CEO of Cleveland Crystals Inc. (CCI) He joined CCI, a closely held company, in 1997 and after reorganizing the company he marketed and sold it at the end of 1998.

In 1980 he joined Quantronix Corporation in New York, leading laser applications development and then managing its business for the semiconductor equipment market.

From 1983 to 1997, Eugene was with Oriel Corporation in Connecticut, initially as Vice President of Technology and Marketing and from 1991, as President. Oriel, originally a privately held corporation, was acquired by a venture capital company in 1987. He changed the business of Oriel to emphasize systems and instruments and in 1996 ThermoElectron Corp. acquired an increasingly profitable Oriel. Eugene became involved in Thermo’s growth-by-acquisition activities. During his time at Oriel, he played an active role on the Boards of Oriel Scientific Ltd., (London, UK),  LOT Oriel GmBH, (Darmstadt, Germany) and he was a founder of Andor Technology Ltd. (Belfast, N.Ireland) a company initially owned mostly by Oriel.

Eugene received his B.Sc. (1^st class honours) in 1972 in Physics, and his Ph.D. in 1975 in Applied Physics from Queens University Belfast, N.Ireland.  His Ph.D. research was in generation and measurement of tunable ultrashort pulses. In 1973, he taught the M.Sc. class in optoelectronics at Queens while continuing his research. He then moved to Imperial College in London where he conducted U.S. Air Force sponsored research on lasers.

An SPIE member from 1972 or so, Eugene has been active in the American Society for Lasers in Medicine of which he was a founding member, the Council for Optical Radiation Measurement, and the OSA at a local and national level. He is currently a member of SPIE, OSA, IEEE, AAAS, and ASAE. He is a member of the board of Edmund Optics, the Advisory Boards to the Canadian Institute for Photonics Innovation and the Scottish University Physics Alliance, and also a member of the Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders. A former Congressional District Organizer, he remains active in Bread for the World, an educational and public policy organization working on the basic causes of world hunger.