LighTopTech’s vision is to build innovative optical instruments to bring to market disruptive technologies for non-destructive imaging in industrial fields, and noninvasive imaging and guided surgery in medical fields.
HISTORY
MISSION
LighTopTech’s mission is to create new possibilities in medical imaging and materials manufacturing towards a better collective future with our biomimetic noninvasive imaging technology.
Jannick Rolland is the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering at The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, and the Director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO). Prof. Rolland earned a Diploma from the Institut D’Optique in France in 1984, and MS (1985) and Ph.D. (1990) degrees in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona. Prof. Rolland served on the editorial board of the Journal Presence (MIT Press) (1996-2006), as Associate Editor of Optical Engineering (1999-2004), and as Topical Editor of Optics Letters (2016-2022). She has served as Topical Editor of J. OPTICA since 2022. She is a Fellow of the OSA, SPIE, National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the European Academy of Sciences (EUAS), an inaugural member of the Virtual Reality Academy, and one of 101 first inductees in the XR Hall of Fame (Established by AWE). She is the recipient of the 2014 David Richardson Medal for visionary contributions and leadership in optical design and engineering, enabling noninvasive optical biopsy with GDOCM, the 2019 Alumna of the Year from the J.C Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, the 2020 Joseph Fraunhofer / Robert M. Burley Prize, the 2025 Hajim Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2025 A.E. Conrady Award in Optical Engineering.