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Sean P Kelley

Laser and Electro-Optics Engineer

Professional Experience

1. CW and Q-switched nonlinear optical systems - QPM and BPM

2. DPSS laser systems, fiber laser/amp design, polish, splice, integrate,

VCSEL's

3. Optical beam propagation and resonators

4. IRCM, optical heterodyne, novel optical source development

5. PPLN design/fabrication/poling (congruent, MgO and stoichiometric),

OPO's and OPA's

6. Systems Engineer - LAN desktop support and admin at hospital campus

Professional Employment History

MDF Trader, Inc. & full time futures trader, Hanover Park, IL

June/2011 - present

Founder/President and full time algorithmic futures trader

7. Automated electronic e-mini futures trading strategies for the

NinjaTrader software platform

www.mdftrader.com

Northrop Grumman, Inc., Rolling Meadows, IL June/2002 - May/2011

Physicist - Advanced Defensive Systems Technology Center, EO/IR Lasers

Group

8. Held national security clearance

9. Received patent for hybrid nonlinear processes - Honor Roll of Inventors

10. Fiber Laser/Amplifier - Designed and built in-house seeded MOPA dual

core, LMA, quasi-single mode fiber laser/amp - Achieved >10W pulsed output

and proposed design for power scaling with all-fiber closed system design

11. Successfully designed and implemented custom NLO system for use with

third party laser to provide multiple output [pic]'s and EO switched paths

- accomplished Phase 2 objectives

12. Successfully pumped types I and II ZGP and AgGaSe nonlinear optical

crystals with patented narrow line "Hybrid" NLO pump at ~2?m to generate

MIR [pic]'s

13. Contributed to multi-year investigation of Orientation Patterned ZnSe

(OPZnSe) for optical frequency conversion from NIR to MIR

14. Evaluated transition metal II-VI (zincblend) laser materials for

tunable 2-3?m emission

15. Explored VCSEL intra-cavity OPO concepts and architectures

16. Helped identify and resolve laser/NLO system production/performance

issues at multiple NGC campuses

17. Assisted numerous NGC groups' technical evaluations of technologies for

current and future applications

18. Designed hand held laser illuminator with option of fiber coupling to

the operator's goggles

19. Demonstrated super continuum output from pulse pumped Si fibers

20. Designed and constructed optical heterodyne system for testing long

wave FPA response

21. Characterized and integrated QCL's in laboratory setups

22. Rebuilt IRCM testing source and installed it at the Air Force

Electronic Warfare Evaluation Simulator (AFEWES) in Ft. Worth, Tx

23. Co-authored two internal NGC symposium presentations

Fibertek, Inc., Herndon, VA October/2001 - June/2002

Laser Engineer

24. Design modification and construction of custom Nd:YVO4 laser system

25. Optical pumping schemes, optomechanical and cooling configurations

Optimetrics, Inc., WPAFB - AFRL/SNJT Dayton, Ohio May/2000 -

October/2001

Research scientist and graduate research assistant

26. Joint AFRL/DAGSI effort - constructed a singly resonant PPLN ring OPO

converting 1.064?m into 3?m and 1.6?m idler and signal regions

27. Liaison between 46th test wing at Eglin AFB and Dr. Ken Schepler's

research group - fabricated custom PPLN crystals, redesigned/customized

proprietary OPO system

28. Energy scaling experiments with large aperture, elliptical pumping of

stacked PPLN to achieve high pulse energies

Education

University of Dayton / Wright Paterson AFB, Dayton, OH

M.S. Electro Optics

29. Research interests: OPO's, PPLN Electro-Optics, DPSS lasers, VCSEL,

holography, guided-wave optics

30. Prepared and instructed Physics 201 and 202 undergraduate laboratory

sections

31. Thesis - "Continuous Wave Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Bowtie

Ring Optical Parametric Oscillator"

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

B.S. Physics/ minor in Mathematics

32. Research team member in Dr. Vivak Malhotra's materials science research

lab - fabrication of brake and other composite materials from coal

combustion residues, FTIR spectroscopy, SEM, differential scanning

calorimetry, differential thermal analysis

Publications/

Presentations

33. Venzant, K., Kelley, S.P. Remote Sensing Using Photothermal Heterodyne

Spectroscopy and Other Sensing Techniques for IED and Chemical/Biological

Detection, Electronic Systems Symposium, (2010)

34. Kanner, G., Kelley, S.P. Orientation Patterned ZnSe for New Laser

Sources, Electronic Systems Symposium, (2010)

35. Kelley, S. P., Green, K. A. Hybrid Quasi-Phasematched and

Birefringently Phasematched Parametric Frequency Conversion Architectures,

Invited Speaker Abstract, LEOS Annual Conference Proceedings, Orlando, FL

(2007)

36. Kelley, S. P., Valimbe, P. S., Malhotra, V. M., and Banerjee, D. D.

Effects of Temperature and Pressure on the Structure of FGD Scrubber

Sludge, American Chemical Society Div. Of Fuel Chem., 42(3), 962-967 (1997)

Patent

37. Kelley, S.P. Hybrid Nonlinear Optical conversion and Optical Parametric

Oscillation, US Patent 7339722 B2, (2008)

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