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Expert in Optical Coating Design, Optical Coating Production, and Optical System Development
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Expert has spent decades designing, developing, and producing optical thin films. He is noted for his understanding of design and producibility of optical coatings. He has worked with most optical vacuum physical vapor deposition (PVD) processes and a few chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes. Expert has hands-on skill and experience with a variety of related development and production equipment. He has produced a variety of coatings from complex designs of over 100 layers to simple single layer coatings (and also industrial vacuum metalizing). He has extensively used resistance sources, electron beam deposition, sputtering, ion assisted deposition (IAD), and have some experience with reactive low-voltage ion plating (RLVIP). The development of robust optical coating processes is one of his specialties. He has found the design of experiments methodology (DOE) to be a great help in maximizing the process knowledge with the minimum number of test runs. He has become an expert in the application of DOE to optical coating development or refinement. He was responsible for the design and development of an automated continuous in-line optical coating system and processes for the multilayer coating of injection molded optics.
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Expert has spent his career developing optical instruments from concept through field service. This has been with a strong emphasis on designing what can be built, and focused on the ease and minimized cost of manufacture, assembly, and alignment. He has very broad experience as an individual contributor in optical system development, design, and production. He has hands-on skill and experience with most related industrial production equipment. Expert has an extensive data base from personal experience and that of others relating to tolerance limits and costs versus tolerance in optical production. He is an acknowledged expert in optical tolerancing to achieve the required performance at minimum cost. The first chapter in his Handbook of OptoMechanical Engineering is witness to that work. He has designed and developed new instruments, test equipment, and new processes in optical instrument production for a broad gamut of systems. These systems include: a great variety of military optical systems, a superachromatic multi-focal-length missile tracking telescope mentioned in the above book, space optics such as a dual field space sextant, stellar geodetic optics, ultraprecise lens alignment system, grating spectrophotometer, Fourier transform diffuse reflectance spectrophotometer, film thickness monitor, aspheric cockpit projection collimator (HUD), tank gunnery simulator (patented), holographic lens, submarine periscope simulator, flickerless stop-motion projection system, 180 degree anamorphic lenses (patented), low cost portable emissometer and solar absorptance meter, computer automated performance evaluator for raceboats, zoom lens for missile guidance simulation. He has been a consultant to most of the major aerospace companies over many years and also worked with many smaller companies in commercial and government support fields.
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Expert has spent several decades of his career developing optical instruments from concept through field service. This has been with a strong emphasis on designing what can be built, and focused on the ease and minimized cost of manufacture, assembly, and alignment. He has very broad experience as an individual contributor in optical system development, design, and production. He has hands-on skill and experience with most related industrial production equipment. He has designed and developed new instruments, test equipment, and new processes in optical instrument production for a broad gamut of systems. These include: a great variety of military optical systems, a diffraction limited superachromatic multi-focal-length missile tracking telescope with superb environmental stability, space optics such as a dual field space sextant, stellar geodetic optics, ultraprecise lens alignment system, grating spectrophotometer, Fourier transform diffuse reflectance spectrophotometer, film thickness monitor, aspheric cockpit projection collimator (HUD), tank gunnery simulator (patented), holographic lens, submarine periscope simulator, flickerless stop-motion projection system, 180 degree anamorphic lenses (patented), low cost portable emissometer and solar absorptance meter, computer automated performance evaluator for raceboats, zoom lens for missile guidance simulation.
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Expert learned the fine points of optical spectroscopy on the first recording spectrophotometer from its inventor, Prof. A. C. Hardy. He has used a variety of commercially built optical spectrophotometers for decades as applied to the measurement of optical and infrared coatings and materials. Expert has developed attachments to obtain special optical measurements with such instruments. He has designed and built several conventional grating/prism systems, but most notably, has developed and produced the first Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometer with an integrating sphere for the 2-20 micron spectral region. This system was also a true double beam system for photometric stability, which no others have ever been. The first of these units was used to develop the Shuttle reentry ceramic tiles at NASA Ames Research Center. Later units were used by the US Army and Air Force for IR camouflage development and thermal control coatings on land, air and space vehicles. Two units were key contributors to the development of efficient solar collector coatings. Expert has expertise in optical spectrophotometry/spectroscopy in the instrumentation development and use, but also in visible and infrared properties of optical coatings and materials (both diffuse and specular).
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Show Only Primary Areas of Expert Consulting
Secondary Expertise
Abbe number, aberration sensor, acceptance angle, anamorphoscope, apparent luminance, arc deposition, autocollimation, background luminance, Baltic area, binoculars, colorimetry, Commission Internationale de l'eclairage color analysis, dense wavelength division multiplexing, densitometer, field depth, field lens, graded-index fiber, illumination measurement, infrared systems engineering, instrumentation engineering, integrating-sphere hazemeter, interferometry, ion plating process, ion vapor deposition, kaleidoscope, light control, lighting device, lighting process, lighting system, line of sight, magnification, opera glasses, optical density, optical device, optical diagnostics, paraxial ray, photometer, photometry, photonics technology, polariscope, production equipment, Ramsden eyepiece, rangefinding, reflectometry, spectroscope, star tracker, statistical tolerance analysis, theodolite, tolerance control software, vision testing
Basic Expertise
active optics, attenuation meter, chemical vapor deposition, densitometry, electromagnetics, electrooptics, ellipsometer, fiber optics, fiber-optic communication network, fiber-optic component, fiber-optic component product design, fiber-optic component product development, industrial sensor, infrared communication, infrared fiber optics, ion implantation, laser sensor, low-light-level human vision analysis, medical fiber optics, miniature television camera, optical communication, optical fiber, optical fiber chromatic dispersion, optical fiber coating material, optical fiber sensor, optical sensing, optical sensor, optical sensor design, optical time domain reflectometer, optical time domain reflectometry, optical waveguide, photosensor, plating process, ranging, relay, remote sensing, reticle, sextant, target identification | | |
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1959
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BS
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Optical Instrumentation/Engineering
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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1980
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MS
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Computer Science
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Florida Institute of Technology
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4.0 Cum
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1997 to 1999
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Raytheon Optical Systems
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Danbury, CT
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Senior Staff Engineer
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He was responsible for the design and development of new optical coatings and processes for space and military plications.
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1995 to 1997
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LexaLite Scientific Center
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Charlevoix, MI
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Director
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He was responsible for the design and development of new 14 chamber automated continuous in-line optical coating equipment and processes for the multilayer coating of injection molded optics for the lighting industry.
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1994 to 1995
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Self
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Melbourne, FL
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Consultant
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He developed and patented an improved plasma/ion source.
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1985 to 1994
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Opto Mechanik, Inc.
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Melbourne, FL
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Vice President, Technology
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He was responsible for the development of all new instruments, test equipment, and processes in optical coating and instrument production including a great variety of Tank and Artillery Fire Control Viewing and Aiming Systems, the superachromatic Multi-Focal-Length Tracking Telescope. Purchased 32, 40, and 48" box coaters.
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1984 to 1985
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Expert Optical Corporation
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Melbourne, FL
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President
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He produced a quantity of Expert developed and patented tank gunnery trainers for Army of a foreign ally.
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1981 to 1984
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Martin Marietta Orlando Aerospace
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Optical Component Center
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Director
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He built a group from a laboratory to 150 skilled workers in optical fabrication, coating, and assembly. He was responsible for fabrication, coating, and assembly of all optics for the TADS/PNVS, LANTIRN, PAVE PENNY, HELLFIRE, COPPERHEAD, ADATS, and other programs. He purchased and installed three SOA 40" box coaters.
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1964 to 1980
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Expert Optical Corporation
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Melbourne, FL
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President
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He formed a company and served a wide variety of clients with consulting, development, prototypes, production, and follow-on support. Some of the results include: Dual Field Space Sextant, Grating Spectrophotometer, Fourier Transform Diffuse Reflectance Spectrophotometer, Film Thickness Monitor, Aspheric Cockpit Projection Collimator (HUD), Automatic Luminaire Design System, Tank Gunnery Simulator, 15"Holographic Lens, Submarine Periscope Simulator, Flickerless Stop-Motion Projection System, 180 degree Anamorphic Lenses, Emissometer, Solar Absorptance Meter, Transportation Automatic Addressing and Labeling System, Computer Automated Performance Evaluator for Raceboats, Zoom Lens for Missile Guidance Simulation.
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1963 to 1964
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Instrument Corporation of Florida
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Melbourne, FL
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Director of Optics
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He developed tracking optical systems, stellar geodetic optics, and an ultraprecise lens alignment system.
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Associations/Societies
He is a member of OSA, SPIE, AVS, MRS and APS.
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Professional Appointments
He was the past President of the Florida Section of the Optical Society. He was a Director of the Society of Vacuum Coaters and a Director of the Charlevoix Federal Credit Union.
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Awards/Recognition
He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a
Fellow of the SPIE.
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Medical/Professional Internships
He was a summer intern at Perkin-Elmer Corporation while at MIT.
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Publications and Patents Summary
He has published over 100 papers, the books "Practical Design and of Optical Thin Films," "Practical Production of Optical Thin Films," "Field Guide to Optical Thin Films", and the lead in chapter to the "Handbook of Optomechanical Engineering." He has four patents: 3,658,410 "Wide Angle Anamorphic Refractive Lenses," 4/25/72
3,812,459 "Optiscan Arrangement for Optical Character Recognition Systems," 5/21/74
3,820,253 "Gunnery Trainer," 6/28/74
5,576,600 "Broad High Current Ion Source,"
2/8/08
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Marcel Dekker, New York
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- CRC Press
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- Expert Optical, Consultants
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- Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
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2000 to
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Redstone Arsenal
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Consultant
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He analysed defective beamsplitter coating and system design, described limitations of laws of physics, and suggested several solutions.
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| Selected Consulting Examples: |
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He is actively engaged as a consultant to a long established optical coating firm on design and process matters, proposals and bidding, and in house training.
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He has helped rectify a production stopping optical coating process problem at a division of one of the oldest optical companies in the US. He advised on automated in-line coating system equipment and process development.
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He is a consultant (non exclusive) on DWDM filter design and production to a large communications component firm.
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He advises a world leader in commercial optical instruments on optical coating tolerances and specifications, limitations, and measurments.
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He performed extensive literature search and analysis of data using design of experiments (DOE) methodology for client in field of new optical/tribological coatings.
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Recent Client Requests:
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Solar optics expert for consulting on analysis of a new concentrating photovoltaic technology.
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Expert in optical waveguide.
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Expert in die design of optical coatings for consulting on Coating process for optical fiber.
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Expert in silicone hard coat chemistry for consulting on optical molding and coating processes & systems evaluation.
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Expert in semiconductor for consulting on a benchmarking audit of our sputtering (PVD) module relative to best-of-breed practices/ products.
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Expert Witness Experience Summary:
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Optical Coatings Design and Process Intellectual Property Suit (Fed.);
Optical Instruments Damage Insurance Case (State);
Satellite Solar Cell Deterioration, Optical Coatings Case (International);
Color in Optical Coatings Patent Infringement Case (Fed.).
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Expert in contact lens design & manufacturing for consulting on manufacturing tolerances for lenses and molds.
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2007 to
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India/Mumbai
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Optical Coating Process Development; New Optical Coating System Acquisition
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2008 to
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Latvia/Baltic
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Optical Coating Design and Production Trade-Off Studies and Advice
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German
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He is able to read technical material and speak adequately for travel purposes.
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French
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He is able to read technical material.
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Spanish
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He is able to read technical material.
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He developed and marketed visual simulators, Fourier spectrophotometers, missile tracking telescopes, and plasma sources.
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Training/Seminars
Teaches one-week courses on all aspects of Optical Coating in US, Europe, and Asia from the various books he has published on the subject. Developed and taught optical coating courses for the Society of Vacuum Coaters for over 20 years. He teaches similar courses at SPIE and for the University of Wisconsin Continuing Ed program. Adjunct Professor of Optics at Florida Institute of Technology.
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection He has contracted for many highly automated conventional optical coating chambers and one special in line coating system.
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Other Skills and Services
Design of Experiments Methodology
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