Who we are
Our group develops and qualifies new materials and new materials processing and characterization techniques to support the optics and targets needs of advanced laser systems, such as the National Ignition Facility.
Meet our team and explore our focus areas below.
Polymer materials
Additively manufactured optics
Inorganic coatings and thin films
Optical finishing
Optical materials processing
Optical characterization
Materials processing using lasers
Cryogenic hydrogen
Laser-matter interactions and optical damage
Systems engineering
Target fabrication
Gratings and diffractive optics
