Lars Hildebrandt is director of sales at nanoplus GmbH and has been working in the tunable semiconductor laser market since 1996, mainly in product development (external cavity diode laser and quantum cascade laser systems) and in sales and marketing. Hildebrandt holds a PhD in Physics, earned in 2004 from the University of Potsdam, Germany, working with blue external cavity diode lasers for atom spectroscopy of Indium and for gas sensing applications. From 2005 through 2008 he was a project manager in the automotive industry for product innovation and introduction into high volume series production. After gaining experience in this new business field, he returned to semiconductor lasers in 2009. Hildebrandt is since then responsible for all sales and marketing activities for nanoplus worldwide.