Optical design services to a variety of clients. Development of performance specifications. Lens design in Zemax. Opto-mechanical design in Solidworks. Alignment procedures. Assembly tolerances. Specifications for manufacture. Selection of trusted vendors. Education of client in the science and manufacture of optical instruments.

Optical design of flow cytometer for blood analysis. Compact design of beta unit for clinical trials.

Development of a custom optics and hardware for the VL4 digital scanner for clinical pathology. One patent for custom tube lens. Custom optics for LED illumination system.

Invited author of tutorial textbook, Optical design of microscopes (2010). Included chapters on physical optics, wave propagation, geometric optics, optical design metrics, fluorescence, detectors, human vision, and optical materials.

Optical design of high-NA aspheric reflectors for detection in single molecules. One patent for integrated fluidic device.

Development of custom optics for TIRF illumination with two lasers. Mathematical models of evanescent field with relation to beam angle. Custom tube lens for vision system with two cameras. Converted laboratory breadboard system into a compact system for delivery to Broad Institute.

Revisions to the assembly tolerances of a digital imaging system for clinical detection of cancer. Tools and metrics for quality control.

Optical and mechanical design of flow cytometers.

Designed electro-optical systems from protoype to finished product. Optical design of micro-lens arrays, micro-optics, and telephoto lens. Specified fabrication of custom optical elements. Directed mechanical design of optical assemblies. Developed optical alignment procedures and associated tools. Designed laser etcher systems. Modeled performance of detectors: CCDs, microchannel plates, silicon detectors, InGaAs detectors, and photomultipliers. Developed charge transport model for electrostatic imaging system. Primary author and contributing author for numerous proposals. Primary author of 6 scientific articles. Numerous oral presentations.