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Welcome to the Lightweight Optics Lab. We aim to develop technology required for a future that is increasingly reliant on space infrastructure for communication, understanding our planet, exploration, and astronomy.
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Congratulations to Dr. Hayden Wisniewski!
Hayden defended his PhD dissertation (Optical Sciences) on precision metrology techniques for difficult-to-measure surfaces. Hayden will soon be working as a metrology engineer at ASML, helping make the next-generation chips possible.
Photo: (left to right) Dr. Mark Schattenburg (MIT, co-advisor and committee member), Dr. Hayden Wisniewski, and Dr. Brandon Chalifoux.
7/27/2023
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Congratulations to Alex St. Peter!
Alex defended his Masters thesis (Optical Sciences) on birefringence imaging to estimate stress states in ultrafast laser-modified fused silica.
4/27/2023
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Check out our latest publication: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.456679
We present a promising new method of accurately figuring thin mirrors, called Ultrafast Laser Stress Figuring.
5/9/2022
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New paper by MIT and Chalifoux: https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.445379
This paper describes a precise method of creating Stress Tensor Mesostructures, which are lithographically-patterned film structures that produce a desired state and distribution of stress for accurately shaping thin substrates.
4/14/2022