TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Optical design of precise measurement systems (including use of lasers, ultra- precise mechanical motions, CCD's and image processing software); digital phase-shifting interferometry

Optical fabrication of difficult materials e.g. lithium niobate

Optical design of ophthalmic lenses including differential geometry of progressive power lenses

Production of ultra-precise optical flats and high-volume production of precise ophthalmic glass molds

Development of UV cured lens casting process and transfer to production

Microwaves, guided waves, millimeter waves, free space optics, radiation transfer optics, Gaussian optics

Gas handling, gas mixing and high pressure gas handling

Liquid nitrogen, liquid helium and super-cooled liquid helium cryogenics associated with ultra low noise bolometric detectors, hot electron detectors and super-cooled, photo-thermal-ionization solid-state photon detectors

Design and utilization of discrete digital electronics and ultra-low noise analogue front-end electronics suitable for high performance optical radiation detectors Computer software applications: Windows (98, XP and NT), Unix, MS Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, Access, Excel and Visual Basic for Applications, FORTRAN, "C", Wit and Sharp Board (image processing), LabView (including Real Time and Fuzzy Logic add ins), (TF Calc, Essential Macleod and own developed Thin Film Modeling software)

Statistics, Pure and Applied Mathematics [especially solving linear and non-linear equations and solving Maxwell's equations (including guided waves and magneto- hydrodynamics)]

Vacuum technology, vacuum and associated optical design and deposition of thin optical film stacks

Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks; linear and non-linear computer regressions/optimizations, process optimizations and statistical process control, precursors to Design of Experiments, and DOE's all as applied to optical fabrication and vacuum deposition amongst others

Materials science - especially of organic crystals, optical materials (visible, IR, Far IR, mm wave). Organic and semiconductor crystal purification and single crystal growth/doping

Solid state devices: LED's, lasers, detectors, charge transfer, noise, optical interfacing etc

See separate list of Publications, Patents and Presentations

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