Jon Zuegel
Project Director
Elizabeth Hill
Project Manager
Velynda Bertomen
Deputy Project Manager
Jake Bromage
Lead Laser Scientist
Matthew Barczys
Lead Systems Engineer
Scott Householder
Chief Safety Officer
Design
The design team is responsible for developing requirements and concepts for short-pulse generation, chirped-pulse amplification, compression, beam focusing, co-timing, and co-pointing. The design effort also includes multiple focusing geometries, on-target pulse width adjustability, and identifying critical technology needs and commercial solutions.
Vinitha Anand
Controls Engineer
Seung-Whan Bahk
Dispersion Control, Wavefront Control, and Parametric Amplifiers
Alex Bolognesi
Kilojoule Pump Lasers
Christophe Dorrer
Beamline Amplifiers and Co-Timing
Nagitha Ekanayake
Beamlines
Chengyong Feng
Front-End Amplifiers and Pump Lasers
Elizabeth Hill
Front End Systems
Mike Hubbard
Information Technology
Steve Ivancic
Diagnostic Development
Cheonha Jeon
Deformable Mirrors and Plasma Mirrors
Mike Krieger
Experimental Systems
Brian Kruschwitz
Wavefront Control and Omega EP System Science
Joe Kwiatkowski
Compression and Beam Transport
Nate Landis
Controls
Annie Liu
Experimental Area Support
Dave Nelson
Lead Mechanical Engineer
Erik Power
ACoDA Modeling and Technologies
Sid Sampat
AMICA Modeling
Ben Webb
Compressor Design and Short-Pulse Diagnostics
Prototyping
The prototyping team addresses the three areas of highest risk that have been identified for the RI-1 project:
- The development of actively cooled disk amplifiers (ACoDA),
- The development of a manufacturing process to produce large aperture gratings, and
- The manufacturing process for growing large boules of highly uniform deuterated potassium dihydrogen phosphate (DKDP) crystals.
The demonstration of these prototypes and processes will allow a future implementation project to be ready for final design in the first one to two years.
Jake Bromage
Grating Development
Pete Charles
Amplifier Design Mechanical Engineer
Christophe Dorrer
Large Aperture Crystals
Erik Power
Actively Cooled Disk Amplifiers
Jarrett Shamlian
Amplifier Design Mechanical Engineer
Matt Soffa
Amplifier Design Mechanical Engineer