About Me
Services
Assistance for cutting, grinding and polishing of;
Quartz, fused silica, BK7, boron carbide, calcium fluoride, cesium iodide, copper, gallium arsenide, Gd-Cob, germanium, GLO, GGG, GSGG, GYGAG, flint glasses, KDP, KD*P, lead bromide, lithium fluoride, phosphate laser glass, lithium niobate, magnesium fluoride, silicon, silicon carbide & single crystal silicon carbide, sapphire & ti-sapphire, strontium iodide, strontium fluoride apatite, stainless steel, ULE, Zerodur, zinc selenide & sulfide, YAG, Y-Cob, YLF, etc, etc.
Surface finishes better than 1/20th wave peak to valley, etalon parallelism and under 1 angstrom surface roughness on many materials.
I also rebuild old sailboats, cars and recumbent trikes.
And I write!
Projects
https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/who-works-at-nif/people-profiles/peter-thelin
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a15619/master-optician-peter-thelin-video/
https://phys.org/news/2015-05-art-hand-polishing-precision-optics.html
http://www.popsci.com/government-scientists-neither-confirm-nor-deny-starkiller-research
About Me
ZYGO Middlefield Connecticut, 1978-84
United Technology Research Center, West Palm Beach Fl, 1984-86
Contraves Goerz, Pittsburgh PA, 1986-88
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1988-2017
2006 R&D 100 Award, Y-CoB Frequency Convertor
2010 R&D 100 Award, Strontium Iodide Gama Spectroscopy
2016 R&D 100 Award GLO scintillator
Selected Technical Papers
N Cherepy et. al. “Inst. Dev. and Gamma Spectroscopy with SrI2” IEEE Trans on Nuc Sci 60 (2013)
B. W. Sturm. et. al. "Effects of packaging SrI 2(Eu) scintillator crystals"
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, (2011)
P.J. Kuzmenko et. al. “Modeling, Fab, and Testing of a Diamond-Machined Ge Immersion Grating” SPIE (2002)
J. Adams et. al. “4.0–4.5-µm lasing of Fe:ZnSe below 180 K” Opt Let (1999)
J Geary et. al. “Interferometry on Grazing Incidence Optics” Opt Eng 26 (1987)
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