Tornado Medical Systems Showcases OCT-On-Chip Prototype at Photonics West

Date Announced: 14 Jan 2012

Meeting the need for smaller, cheaper, and more reliable OCT devices, Tornado Medical System is developing the first commercially available OCT system on a chip. Using commercial integrated optics technologies initially developed in the laboratory of Professor Michal Lipson at Cornell University, a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow recently appointed to the company’s Advisory Board, Tornado’s Ithaca based team has developed a compact prototype with a 12um axial resolution and 65nm bandwidth. Tornado’s fully integrated nanophotonics approach will significantly decrease system cost, while providing the robustness that comes with a no-moving-parts design. Tornado will showcase its prototype at Photonics West in San Francisco from Jan 24-26th (Booth #5206).

“The speed at which our team developed these prototypes is outstanding, thanks to our in-house nanophotonics experts and the contribution of Professor Lipson and the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility” comments Dr. Stefan Larson, CEO at Tornado Medical Systems. “We are well underway to release our commercial unit by the end of this calendar year, targeting an axial resolution of less than 6um with over 100nm bandwidth, in a very small form factor”.

Contact

For more information, please contact:
Frédéric D. Sweeney, PhD
Vice President, Business Development & Strategy
Tornado Medical Systems Inc.
fred.sweeney@tornado-medical.com
T: 416.361.3444 x 107

E-mail: fred.sweeney@tornado-medical.com