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Woburn, Massachusetts, US

Design of High Power Lasers

Wilmington, Massachusetts, US

• Developed tools for wafer inspection. Wrote software to evaluate tolerance yield of new microscope imaging system. Designed new efficient LED microscope illumination systems. Generated characterization workflow for.
• Significantly improved image quality and accuracy of measurement of laser triangulation device
• Built prototype ultra-violet microscope, developed methods for its image quality evaluation

Bolton, Massachusetts, US

• Designed diffraction gratings, refractive, and reflective optical systems for imaging spectrometers. Designed opto-mechanical test and calibration station for imaging spectrometers. Developed and built spectrometer.
• Improved quality of production gratings by modeling, redesigning, and building better quality laser hologram exposure systems

Seeshaupt, Germany, DE

• Designed projection lens for multi-projection systems for global installations. Performed lens tolerance analysis, opto-mechanical lens designs, and specified optical components. Managed suppliers world-wide to source.
• Designed cost effective, challenging high precision and high performance wide angle projection lenses for professional multi projector systems having exceptional performance and color fidelity

Marlborough, MA, US

• Developed unique LED and fiber-optic illumination system for LithoVue, single use digital ureteroscope. Exceeded all design objectives resulting in successful LithoVue ureteroscope commercialization. Performed optical.
• Designed unique cost-effective illumination system for single use digital LithoVue ureteroscope resulting in new cost competitive product with consistent performance
• Independent tests by 13 endo-urologists confirmed image quality of illumination system better than that of 7 other reusable scopes that it replaces

Chelmsford, MA, US

• Designed complex multispectral (NIR, SWIR, MWIR) advanced airborne reconnaissance systems in Zemax and Code V, IR imaging lens with a relay, and visible mapping lens. Developed optical designs for numerous proposals..
• Accomplished difficult alignment with image improvement of a complex off axis multi-mirror image relay system using existing non-optimal parts which saved development time
• To characterize modulation transfer function of focal plane designed multispectral test bench based on Offner relay
• Reduced need for expensive in flight field testing of IR focal planes be developing unique lab setup to image complex continuous tone IR scenes over full field of view of Dewar mounted IR focal planes
• Increased camera pointing accuracy by 96% for first time in device history by developing complex opto-mechanical aerial camera calibration setup

Designed, analyzed, and significantly improved digital endoscope systems, traditional rod lens relay systems, endoscope video lenses, and endoscope illumination systems. Debugged small opto-mechanical assemblies found in traditional and digital endoscope prototypes. Prepared and improved optical documentation for production and interfaced with vendors.

• Designed optical systems for various customers: flight simulator video projection lens, micro projection lens, triplet and doublet type lenses, gun telescope, eyepiece video pickup lens, microscope Koehler.
• Eliminated haze and bad reflection by designing a fundus camera illumination system
• To analyze Aurora Borealis for joint project between Princeton University and Dartmouth College, developed optics for Sersio sounding rocket satellite

Contributed to the development of an efficient (no heat) surgical lighting system with high color rendering index utilizing plastic fiber bundles to deliver light mixture from both LEDs and arc lamps. Developed medical diagnostic systems using lenses, light pipes, filters, fibers, capillaries, and CPC’s. Developed a fluorescent spectroscopy system..

Integrated digital aerial camera systems resulting in unprecedented camera performance. Built prototypes, aligned sensors, tested components, and utilized optical metrology. Conducted design trade studies of EO/IR system performance including optics and focal planes. Performed radiometric calculations and radiometric testing of camera systems. Developed.