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The University of Central Florida closes the 2017 calendar year by sharing one of its biggest bench to market success stories to date. The story began in the 1990s when a Russian scientist moved to the United States to expand his research in optics and photonics. Leonid Glebov arrived in 1995, set up his lab in the College of Optics…