Biomedical Technology for preventing the spread of infection causing pathogens in hospital and small practitioner environments.
About Us
Germgard Lighting LLC is a privately held, early phase, medical technology company dedicated to inventing, developing, obtaining the necessary marketing clearances from government agencies, and establishing manufacturing capability for infection prevention products. The Company has patents pending for hand sanitation, instrument sterilization and air pathogen reduction devices and sterile consumables. The Company intends to partner with one or more organizations that are appropriate for manufacturing and distribution of our products in North America, Europe and the rest-of-the-world. The company is located at the NJ Commission on Science and Technology / County College of Morris innovation incubator located at the US Army Picatinny Arsenal in Northern NJ.
Dr. Eugene I. Gordon, Acting CEO/CTO, Founder
is a world-renowned scientist and engineer. During
his 26 years at AT&T Bell Labs he and his group discovered and developed several important laser systems,
including the well-known, red, helium-neon laser. He invented and developed the powerful, continuous, blue-
green argon ion laser. He also invented and developed acousto-optic light modulators and deflectors used
currently in many opto-electronic systems. Similarly he and his group invented and developed the charge
coupled device (CCD) used as the sensing array in most digital camera, television and infra-red imaging systems
for military applications, especially the CAMCORDER and facsimile machines and for astronomy. As described
below Dr. Gordon invented the solution for making semiconductor lasers sufficiently reliable for long haul
fiber optic communications. Dr. Gordon is named inventor on approximately 80 US patents and has published over
50 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Gordon is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (1978), a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and
has been awarded the prestigious IEEE Edison Medal and the IEEE Zworykin Field Award, as well as numerous other
awards. He has been active professionally; he founded one IEEE Society, (the predecessor of the Lasers and
Electro-Optics Society, LEOS), two IEEE journals, (Journal of Quantum Electronics and Electron Device Letters),
has served as associate editor of two IEEE journals, and been active in IEEE Publications and Awards for many
years. He was a consultant for DOD and was chairman of Working Group C of the Advisory Group on Electron
Devices (AGED is a committee of DOD) from 1970 - 1981 and a board member of AGED from 1981 - 1984.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude from City College of New York in 1952. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT, in
1957 doing his thesis in gas discharge physics and microwaves and remaining for postdoctoral research on plasma
based, thermonuclear fusion. In November 1957 he joined the staff of AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J.
becoming Laboratory Director in 1968. Most of his work involved the entire innovative span from research and
invention through manufacturing. He led many projects including the invention and development of imaging devices
(the indestructible silicon target camera tube) for PICTUREPHONE®, the Bell System video telephone system (the
tube was also used in NASA's Apollo landings); the CCD, EBES, the first and still most important commercial
electron-beam mask maker for silicon integrated circuit manufacture; and the semiconductor laser devices for
the Bell System's Lightwave Systems. He made the essential contribution to the laser reliability for the Bell
System's first transatlantic, fiber-optic undersea cable, TAT-8. The issue was viability of semiconductor
lasers in underwater repeaters that had to last for 25 years of continuous operation without a single failure,
a task that was generally judged as of 1980 to be impossible. He invented and implemented the solution and by
1983 could responsibly inform AT&T that the plan for initial operation in 1988 would not be deterred by laser
reliability concerns. Service was implemented on schedule. Ultimately such systems produced many billions of
dollars of revenue for AT&T. The TAT-8 system was recently retired with no laser failures. In contrast, the
short French and UK legs installed at the same time were plagued by laser failures. The long haul fiber optic
systems are also the backbone of Internet.
Dr. Gordon retired from AT&T in 1983 and founded Lytel, Inc. of Somerville, NJ, a manufacturer of lasers and
optical transmission subsystems; he was Chairman and CEO. AMP bought Lytel in 1988. He also helped to found
Taunton Technology of Monroe, CT (until recently VISX now AMO) in 1984 and was a Board Director of that
company. The latter activity is an outgrowth of his strong interest in medical uses of lasers, a research
area to which he made early, important contributions. One of these related to the use of the argon laser and
invention of the articulated arm photocoagulator for treatment of diabetic retinopathy and cure of blindness
with Francis A. L'Esperance, Jr., MD of Columbia University. The procedure has been used on over 20 million
patients. He joined Hughes Aircraft Company in 1987 as Senior Vice President and Director of their Research
Labs located in Malibu, CA. Dr. Gordon has been adjunct professor in the Department of Ophthalmology of the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey since June 1994. He founded Medjet Inc. in 1994. Medjet
developed vision correction equipment. Lytel will soon reverse merge with another company.
Peter E. Gordon, VP Marketing, Founder
has over 10 years of semiconductor
and photonic industry experience in International Sales Management, Product Line Management, and Senior Product
Marketing. Early in his career, he spent one year in Washington, DC lobbying on behalf of small manufacturing
companies leading to the passage of a key piece of legislation aimed at improving the competitiveness of U.S.
industry. He later was Director of Sales and Marketing for Asia at DSP Group and Director of Strategic Sales and
Marketing for C Speed. His most recent work has been selling photonic components, subsystems, and equipment into
Life Sciences, Medical Device, Consumer Lighting, Communication, and Defense applications.
He holds a Masters degree in International Business and History of Technology from Edinburgh University. He also
holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he
focused on opto-electronic device processing. He earned his Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Pennsylvania where he had a dual focus on semiconductor physics and marketing through the
Wharton School.