OptoSapiens Design provides modeling and design services in fiber and integrated optics, photonic crystals and photonic subsystems particularly sensor systems. OptoSapiens expertise builds on the 25-years experience of the founder, Dr. Richard J. Black, in the field of photonics gained in both academia and industry at the world's leading photonics institutions in North America, Europe and the Pacific such as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (where he was Invited Professor), Stanford University, the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Optical Sciences Centers at the University of Arizona and the Australian National University, and the Università di Padova.