Optical design and engineering service

Examples of past designs:

Ultra-compact catadioptric zoom;
Catadioptric infrared objective (for 8 - 12 microns);
Afocal zooms for laser diode beams;
Power monitor for laser diode matrix;
Target projector for spatial resolution measurement of intensified CCD cameras;
Telecentric lens to qualitatively monitor the status of emitters in a laser diode matrix;
Achromatic Risley prisms;
Laser line generator for an industrial vision system;
Laser diode collimators;
Sunload sensor (US Patent 6,888,120);
Fingerprint imager;
Echelle spectrometer CESAR (in collaboration with INO);
Infrared Fourier transform spectrometer;
Light baffles (stray light suppression).

Present: Optical specialist (consultant);
2009 - 2010: Optical specialist at the NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics;
2008: Optical specialist (consultant);
2004 - 2007: Optical specialist at Obzerv Technologies;
2000 - 2003: Optical specialist at INO;
1998 - 2000: Optical specialist at TTI Medical;
1996 - 1998: Post-doctoral Fellow at the Molecular Physics Laboratory of SRI International;
1995: Research associate at the Laboratoire de physique atomique et moléculaire of Laval University;

Ph.D. Physics (1995, université Paris XI): Photoionization of atoms and molecules by combining laser and synchrotron radiation;
M.Sc. Physics (1991, université Laval): Development of an experimental setup for laser induced fluorescence of a fast ion beam: application to N₂⁺ and CO₂⁺;
B.Sc. Physics (1988, université Laval).