Fiber Optic

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Employment Eligibility: U.S. Citizen;

Career Summary:

- Highly self-motivated and results driven photonics product developer with track record in optical and laser

spectroscopic instrumentation;

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; successfully initiated and generated SBIR funding and taken several

projects (typical $1M each) from concept to design, implementation, test and qualification;

- Skilled in design and analysis of optoelectronic systems and materials selection and processing;

- Designed photonic components using numerical optical design software tools (BeamProp from RSoft/Synopsys) and

analytical methods to predict and optimize performance of specialty fiber and waveguides interaction especially in

evanescent mode,

- Excellent interpersonal, management and team skills and ability to work in interdisciplinary/ intercultural teams;

- Demonstrated organizational and communication skills, in managing, prioritizing multiple tasks simultaneously

- Highly successful in grant proposal writing and winning for government agencies, patents, and for technical journals;

- Raman and fluorescence detecting biomedical optical sensors conceived, designed and developed with a variety of

laser sources over a wide spectral range including near UV and visible, with free-space and fiber optic systems.

- Optical component selection and characterization with test equipment (OSAs, OTDRs), WDMs,

FBGs, EDFAs, tunable near-IR lasers, LEDs, MEMs switches, silicon and InGaAs photo-detectors, and PMTs.

- Four awarded patents on demonstrated prototype and performance validated devices, (see under Patents).

- Coordinated research activities in developing novel optical technologies, products, and intellectual property; track

record of process development, design of experiments for validating innovative concepts;

- Developed processes for manufacturing PMMA-embedded sensors, tested for clinical microwave thermometry;

- Instrumentation developed for optical fiber sensing by using spectral sampling (FBGs) and optical heterodyne

detection of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering frequency changes;

- Designed and fabricated nano-optical components, fiber Bragg gratings with Phase Mask and scanning UV laser at

244nm)

- Fabricated bragg gratings in heavy-metal doped scintillating fiber for radiation dosimetry in clinical brachytherapy;

- Developed fluorescence and Raman collection techniques for clinical diagnostics with optical catheters.

Professional Experience:

6/2014 – Present Principal Scientist, Innoveyda, Torrance, CA

Optical and opto-acousto-ultrasonic diagnostic hardware development for biomedical and aerospace applications.

10/2013 – 4/30/2014 Specialty Fiber Optic Biomedical Sensors, Employee

5/1/2014 – Present Consultant

Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. Torrance, CA

Surface plasmonic fiber optic sensors and autonomous hydrophones design and development.

1/2012- 7/2012 Optical Sensor Scientist,

Paulsson Inc., 16543 Arminta St. Van Nuys, CA

All technical and administrative responsibilities of a 5-person start-up team for Highly Multiplexed Optical Fiber Geophones development to operate in harsh environment measurements.

8/2002 – 12/2011 Group Leader, Spectroscopy and Physical Sensors,

Intelligent Optical Systems, (or I.O.S.) Inc.,

2520 W. 237th St. Torrance, CA

Revenue/grants generated by competitive bids & proposal; leading and mentoring group to achieve all technical, contracting and budgetary goals, on time. System design reviews, device implementation and testing; managing collaborations both within and external to company; and building teams and company capability. Presented at conferences and to stakeholders from SBIR agencies; peer-reviewed publications. New products and optical device prototypes funded by NIH, DARPA, NASA, Air Force & NOAA.

3/1997 -- 7/2002 Senior Scientist, Fiber Optic Sensors, Physical Optics Corporation, then I.O.S.

(in 1999 the group spun-off into NewCo. = I.O.S.) 2520 W. 237th St. Torrance, CA

Led R&D in optoelectronics funded by SBIR DOD and NIH. Intellectual property filed and performed field test and device qualification. Initiated new technology: non-linear Brillouin scattering optical fiber sensors under 3 year DARPA grant.

1/1992 -- 2/1997 Research Scientist, Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Perception,

Martigny, & Institut de Microtechnique (IMT), Neuchatel, Switzerland

Implemented free-space optical pattern recognition processor with liquid-crystal light-valves as thresholding elements.

9/1985 -- 1/1991 Research and Teaching Assistant,

Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, & NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL

- Taught undergraduate “Physics 101” including laboratory;

- Designed and implemented a polarimetric current/magnetic field sensor for sounding-rocket deployment, using a fiber

optic coil as the sensing element; "Polarization noise in optical fiber Faraday ring Ammeters," Ph.D. dissertation,

University of Alabama in Huntsville, May 1991.

- Fast sampled Stokes ellipsometer implemented for dynamic polarization analysis of light traversing a coil of optical

fiber, subjected to an electromagnetic field.

Patents:

U.S. Pat No. 8,701494 “Apparatus and Method for Damage Location and Identification in Structures”, Indu Saxena et al.

U.S. Pat No. 8,234,924, “Apparatus and Method for Damage Location and Identification in Structures”, Indu Saxena et al. (Optical Detection of Ultrasound, Acoustics)

U.S. Pat No. 7,717,618, “Apparatus and method for high resolution temperature measurement and for hyperthermia therapy”, Indu Saxena;

U.S. Pat No. 7,741,108, “Bacteria Sensor and Method” (Endogenous bacteria fluorescence excited by LED source), Indu Saxena et.al.

Select Presentations:

1.LARTA Venture Forum, San Francisco May 2007, In-Catheter Gradient Thermometric Probe.

2.BEMA, (Biomedical Engineering Materials and Applications), “In-Vivo Imaging with Optical Catheters” presented at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C., October 2007.

3.LARTA Venture Forum, Los Angeles May 2005: “Real-time bacteria monitoring Probe”.

4.Presented biofilm detector applications for hemodialysis, HVAC machines, and crude oil pipelines 2003-2006 to GAMBRO, NALCO & Baker Petrolite.

5.Presentations and demonstrations to Dennis Keene at WR-AFLC; William Milan of NAVAIR at Patuxent River, MD, to QNDE-2009 conference in San Diego; of NDE fiber-optic ultrasound sensor and readout instrument at PHM conference in San Diego, 2010; of Fiber temperature sensor at NIH Technology Forum in October 2006.

Related Skills:

Optical design software: BeamProp, plus C/C++ ; Matlab, LabView.

Radiation detecting scintillating fibers to NUCSAFE; and to Honeywell on D-fiber evanescent field-coupled target detection.

Developed interferometric (Sagnac) Optical Fiber Intrusion Detector.

Designed, fabricated, and characterized ion-exchanged planar optical waveguides with acousto-optic Bragg diffraction for real-time Radio-Frequency spectrum analysis.

Implemented a tunable dye laser, pumped by a pulsed, UV Nitrogen laser.

Education:

Ph.D., Applied Optics, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, U.S.A.

G.P.A. = 3.6 out of 4.0

M.Sc., Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

C.P.I. (equivalent to GPA) = 8.7 out of 10

Non Linear Optics (OSA Short Course) 2002

Project Management Certificate, Waypoint Leadership 2007

Grants Generated and Received as Principal Investigator:

Biomedical Applications:

“3-D Morphology and Viability Status Imaging of Tissue Culture”, DHP, 2011.

“Optical Signal Enhancement in Microcavity Resonators”, National Institutes of Health, 2003.

“Solid State Optical Raman Probe for Medical Applications”, National Institutes of Health, 2003.

“Fiber Temperature Sensor for Hyperthermia”, National Institutes of Health.

“In-Situ Optical Fiber Biofilm Monitor”, 2003, National Institutes of Health.

“Autocalibrating Multipoint Dosimeter”, 2000, National Institutes of Health.

Defence & Security:

“Anomaly Detection in Curved Composites”, NAVAIR, 2010.

“High Fidelity, Low Power Omnidirectional Hydrophone”, NOAA, 2009-2011

“Automated Damage Detection and Classification in Composite Structures”, Air Force, 2006-2009

“High Resolution Radiation Detection with Sub-Micron Light Trapping Structures”, DTRA, 2005.

“Mechanical System Metrics with Embedded Transducers” NAVY, 2004.

“Single Ended Optical Fiber Stress Monitor”, DARPA, 1999-2002.

Industrial Applications:

“Fibers with High Reflectance Bragg Grating Terminations”, Honeywell Contract No. C09570063

“Scintillating Optical Fiber Modelling & Characterization”, Nucsafe Contract No. SC06-003

Optical Signal Processing:

“Adaptive Optical Neural Networks”, Swiss National Science Foundation.

“Polarization Rotation Control”, University of Alabama Huntsville.

Languages: Fluent in reading and writing English, Hindi, French, and Dutch/Netherlands.

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