Alastair Grant

Alastair is DigiLens’ chief optical architect and is a member of DigiLens’ executive management team. He is responsible for R&D development of DigiLens’ core holographic waveguide technology. This includes development of DigiLens high performance waveguides and holographic fabrication equipment & processes suitable for high volume scalability. He has enjoyed working for DigiLens since 2011 in the dynamic, exciting, and now rapidly developing XR/AR industry and in defining the future roadmaps for DigiLens technology, and possibly for the future of us all!

Over the past 30 years Alastair has held senior and principal optical engineering positions with BAE SYSTEMS, OPTICS1/SAFRAN, and Panavision, where he has successfully innovated, designed, built, tested and deployed an extensive range of optical imaging, illumination and sensing solutions. Alastair’s broad optical experience covers commercial, defense, visible, infrared, imaging, illumination, classical and holographic / diffractive optics.

Alastair holds a BSc.(Hons) in Optoelectronics and Laser engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, and an MSc. in Electronics from University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.