Rafael Olano

Mr. Olano has more than 35 years’ experience as a scientific glassblower and R&D Technician starting with ILC Technology, Inc. in 1980, continuing until 2002 when he was a co-founder of APT. Mr. Olano worked on all aspects of lamp production, specializing in the critical area of quartz glass to metal seal technology. Mr. Olano developed the impact seal technology for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories and also developed graded seal technology for short arc lamps manufactured by Optical Radiation Corp. Mr. Olano attended the National University in El Salvador where he studied engineering.