SUMMARY:

• Advanced and accomplished designer and developer with over 15 years of industrial experience as optical designer, solution finder, opto - mechanical engineer and product/system developer. Skillful and experienced in advanced and complex system modeling and analysis, lens and optical components design, optical component/system tolerancing and specification for performance and manufacturability, new products breadboarding and prototyping, alignment and testing strategy, methodology and instrumentation development, and pre-release product evaluation, testing, calibration and verification. Currently designing, developing and testing monochromators, spectrometers, imaging colorimeters, display inspection instrumentation, standard LED and laser light sources, and integrating spheres.
• Creative and knowledgeable when finding the best solutions for imaging/non-imaging, inspection/measurement, and metrology applications. Experienced system designer.
• Expert in lens design, ray tracing, optimization and tolerancing with optical design software Confidential, Code V, and OSLO.
• Wide optical design expertise in geometric and physical optics, imaging and non-imaging optics, visual optics and color science, interferometry, holography, diffractive optics, polarization, lasers, fiber optics, photonics and waveguide optics.
• Five years of cleanroom photonics device fabrication and testing experience.
• Superior analytical skills in optics, photonics and opto-mechanics. Proficient in mathematics software Matlab and MathCAD, and photonics simulation software OptiWave, OptiBPM, and RSoft.
• Great expertise in optical systems and components testing metrology, characterization, calibration and verification, such as first order optical parameters, surface profiling, distortion, MTF, polarization/depolarization, transmission/reflectance, radiometric/photometric, scatter and straylight, and birefringence.
• Experienced in instrument automation, control design, data sampling/processing, and image grabbing/processing, with LabView, C and Python programming and basic electronics design.
• Good communication and presentation skills. Team player. Enjoy working in multi-disciplinary engineering team. Good communicator and efficient in component and subsystem sourcing with inside and outside vendors. Having established good customer and supplier bases in China, Japan and Korea.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Optical Engineer

Confidential, Orlando, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Key designer and developer of high precision imaging colorimeters for volume LCD display inspection of color, luminance, uniformity, and defects. Designed high performance proprietary custom lens for maintaining measurement accuracy over varying conditions and improving its throughput. Resulted in released products used by industry leading manufacturers.
• Designed and developed hyper-spectral imagers based on Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter (AOTF) devices, including designing and modeling crystal optics, volume grating and polarization optics. Resulted in a product with the highest image quality and throughput on the market. ed a US Patent for the underlining optical design.
• Designed and developed other light measurement instruments such as imaging photometers, imaging spectrometers, monochromators, and programmable spectral light sources, and their accessory optics such as microscopes and telescopes.
• Designed optics, characterized and tested performance of integrating sphere based multi-channel LED light sources for calibration and s, including spatial uniformity, spectral and angular power distribution measurements.
• Designed and developed laser beam delivery and scanning systems, laser and LED coupling and collimating optics, and optical sub-systems in OCT systems.

Research Physicist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed radiometric analysis, ray tracing, optimization and tolerancing with Confidential, illumination design, stray light analysis, detector selection, and laser selection (as light source) for those product developments. Completed the optical alignment of a large-calibre interferometer working in the THz wave region. Also designed optical alignment procedure for highly sensitive optical instruments with laser and broad band light sources.

Research Scientist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Researched, simulated, designed and fabricated photonic devices (waveguide devices) including optical MEMS devices.
• Designed and modeled photonics and MEMS devices with OptiBPM, OptiWave and RSoft. Conducted micro-structural analysis and electrostatic actuator design, with both analytical and Confidential (Finite-Element-Analysis) approaches.
• Fabricated many silicon waveguides and Micro-Optical MEMS devices in the cleanroom, from photolithography mask design, etching, thin film deposition, to MEMS related techniques such as anti-stiction freeze drying, post-release anti-stiction SAM (Self Assembled Monolayer) coating, etc.
• Conducted micro photonic device testing and characterization, including designing and building a sub-micron resolution interference microscope (optical profilometer) on an optical table in the lab, an optical waveguide throughput measurement system, a laser characterization (tuneable laser diodes and SLDs, detectors) system, and a thin-film stress measurement system. Also learned to use ellipsometers, SEM and ATM for various other micro-optical measurements and characterizations.

Lead Product Development Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Group leader and optical engineer in the subsystem “Space Borne Cryogenically Cooled Optics”. Performed conceptual and detailed optical and opto-mechanical design work for a cryogenically cooled FLIR (Forward-Looking IR) imaging optics. Conducted in-depth thermal-optical study for soundness of the space-borne design. Coordinated with subcontractors, and carried out intensive testing to meet or exceed specified performance.

Optical Engineer/Opto-mechanical Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assistant optical/opto-mechanical designer for the project “Meteorological Satellite Imaging Radiometer”. Developed a 400mm calibre scanning R-C Cassegrain Imaging Radiometer on board the first Chinese geostationary weather satellite “FY-2”. Modeled the structural soundness under space launch conditions with Confidential software, and conducted full dynamic analysis and testing to verify the modeling. Designed focusing/adjustment precision mechanisms. Also participated in various mid-term and final environmental testing/characterizations of optical components and subsystems.