I truly enjoy helping my clients understand complex optical problems and help them find solutions as they learn to do it themselves.

I studied lens design with Rudolf Kingslake and Robert R. Shannon.

Kingslake was quite a taskmaster, and a great story teller. I learned more about different optical systems than I could have ever imagined existed.

Technology is changing at a blazingly fast pace. The number of publications is expanding exponentially.

One thing I've noticed is that similar things seem to be reinvented every 20 years — once a new generation of scientists and engineers are working on a problem previously solved by their previous generation.

What's out of sight is literally out of mind as well.

Whether you are imaging large things or small things, or even almost in the dark things, I can help you find solutions to your imaging problems.

Perhaps the work I am most known for is the monograph on "Phase Measurement Interferometry Techniques" in 1988 where I reviewed these techniques in gory detail. Google scholar has >1900 citations for this book chapter.

When I worked at Wyko in the early days, we tasked ourselves with applying phase shifting interferometry to every type of interferometer we could think of.

Many of these never went on market. Some were very specialized to a specific task.

Optical metrology is both a means and an end to solving many an optical problem.

As the old saying goes, "if you can't measure it, you can't make it."

Having grown up with a parent who did biological research, I learned to speak biology as a youngster. I have found there is a rich interface of research and development between the fields of optics and biology where a lot can be learned and shared.

Much of my research of the past 2 decades has been related to the imaging of biological samples.

Having designed and built multiple microscope products for industrial as well as biological applications, I can help you with your systems at whatever level you require.

When you need connections to fabrication facilities all over the world, I can help you find the right vendor for your tasks and ensure you get what you want with the quality you need.

Zernike polynomials are often confusing to people. There are different ways of ordering them, different ways of normalizing them, and then there are different sets of polynomials depending upon the shape of the dataset.

Whether you have the specs prepared yet or not, I can help you determine if they will help you get what you need.