Project Assistant
Resume:
Hector Martin
Oro Valley, AZ 85737
*********@*****.***
Summary: Highly creative, versatile, and goal oriented research scientist with more than 10 years of laboratory experience. Strong background in sophisticated research techniques with cutting edge lasers and electro-optical systems. Demonstrated excellence in scientific investigations and innovative technical demonstrations utilizing terra-watt class lasers and mega-volt class high voltage generators.
Professional Experience:
Research Scientist, Applied Energetics, Tucson, AZ.
November 2004 - June 2012
Key member in experimental group leading to the development of new laser guided energy (LGE) technology, technologies for disabling improvised explosive devices, and a new type of high-gain laser amplifier. Extensive technical experience in high-power ultra-short pulse (USP) laser-induced filament/plasma phenomena and its applications for laser-guided high voltage discharges, interaction with matter, atmospheric propagation and remote sensing capabilities. Development and management of a laser application facility utilized for studying femtosecond laser applications in the micro-machining industry.
• Operated as project leader for the successful design, fabrication, test, and demonstration of a complex dynamic laser launch optics system which included a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) fluorescence feedback system, deformable mirrors, beam combining for a common-path from multiple laser sources, fast steering mirrors, active compensation for mechanical vibration, and target tracking capabilities.
• Led the integration and testing of lasers, optical delivery modules, high-voltage and control systems.
• Developed and implemented electro-optical diagnostic equipment to monitor, troubleshoot and characterize lasers and subsystems performance.
• Planned, directed, and coordinated laser guided energy (LGE) experiments and demonstrations.
• Conducted experiments for measuring, characterizing and controlling long-distance laser-guided electrical discharges.
• Performed studies and demonstrations of laser-guided electrical discharge target-effects.
• Used interferometric methods (Wollaston prisms) to measure time-resolved air expansion in laser guided discharges as part of an effort to understand plasma channel conductivity.
• Coordinated and executed electron density measurements of USP laser filament/plasma channels using holographic interferometric techniques.
• Implemented Schlieren interferometric imaging methods with high-speed imaging and streak cameras to perform time-resolved studies of the thermodynamic evolution of laser-guided discharge plasma.
• Conducted several field-tests studies of high-power USP laser long-range filaments propagation dynamics including laser atmospheric propagation experiments over the ocean.
• Executed experiments and studies of USP laser filament-matter interaction phenomena for LIDAR applications, including demonstrating the feasibility of using filament-induced white light (super-continuum generation) for underwater ranging.
• Conducted tests that lead to the successful development of a prototype remote filament induced breakdown spectroscopy (FIBS) detection system capable of remotely sensing and identifying materials, including explosives, at ranges up to 46 meters.
• Executed time-resolved experiments on USP laser interaction with plasma capillary discharges for studying Raman backscattering and amplification.
• Performed experiments to study high frequency RF signals generated with USP laser-induced plasma and developed novel techniques to enhance the RF signal.
• Designed and implemented real-time imaging diagnostic test beds for characterizing and testing (power scaling) a novel high average power ultra short pulse Yb:YAG thin disk laser amplifier.
• Managed and coordinated the application center laser micro-machining and material processing studies.
• Customized and implemented a second harmonic (SH) module to expand the laser micro-machining system capabilities for processing transparent materials.
• Designed micromachining processes for ablation threshold studies and material removal optimization.
• Collected, documented and analyzed experimental data and presented project test reports.
Graduate Research Assistant, Optics Laser Lab, San Francisco State University, CA
May 2000-November 2003
Developed a novel imaging technique for generation of two-dimensional soliton-induced waveguide arrays, which served as the framework for several studies, demonstrations, and discoveries of partially-coherent photorefractive soliton interactions.
• Designed and performed experiments with nonlinear crystals yielding discoveries of novel phenomena and demonstrations of discrete solitons in light-induced photonic lattices.
• Carried out studies of nonlinear optical vortices and their interaction with Gaussian beams.
• Executed optical alignment setups for the Optics Laser Lab experiments.
• Documented alignment procedures and test parameters.
• Operated, optimized and characterized lab lasers and documented laser performance.
• Analyzed data utilizing Matlab, IDL and other software.
• Trained incoming research assistants in basic lab operations, safety, optical alignment techniques and experimental procedures.
Teaching Assistant, San Francisco State University, CA
September 1998-May 2002
• Performed calibration and operation of various SFSU observatory telescopes.
• Provided guidance to university students with astronomy focused observational projects.
• Aided faculty with evaluations of student course work and exams.
Skills/Applications:
Matlab, GOL 3D: 2D and 3D laser micro-machining programming software, MS Office suite applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Visio), Windows and Macintosh OS platforms, MS Project, Adobe Photoshop, ImageJ, Google SketchUp, LabView Applications, Fluent in Spanish.
Education & Training:
• M.S. Physics, San Francisco State University, CA (2003)
• B.S. Astrophysics, San Francisco State University, CA (2001)
Awards & Honors:
• Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship, (Fall 2002)
• Golden Key National Honor Society
Clearance:
• Active U.S. Department of Defense Secret Clearance
Selected Publications/Presentations:
Darren A. Rand, Scot E. J. Shaw, Juan R. Ochoa, Daniel J. Ripin, Andrew Taylor, Tso Yee Fan, Hector Martin, Scott Hawes, Jim Zhang, Samvel Sarkisyan, Eric Wilson, and Paul Lundquist “Picosecond pulses from a cryogenically cooled, composite amplifier using Yb:YAG and Yb:GSAG” Optics Letters, Vol. 36, Issue 3, pp. 340-342 (2011).
Paul Lundquist, Stephen McCahon, Richard Adler, Eric Nelson-Melby, Hector Martin, “Scaling of Laser Guided Energy to Extended Ranges”, DEPS Symposium 2008 - Honolulu
Paul Lundquist, Stephen McCahon, Richard Adler, Hector Martin, Eric Lau, “Ultrashort Pulse Laser Filamentation Applications”, MSS 2008 Active EO Conference – St. Petersburg
Paul Lundquist, Stephen McCahon, Eric Lau, Eric Wilson, Hector Martin, Richard Schwerdtfeger, Gerald Manke II, Timothy Bradley, ”Filament Formation Studies and Applications”, Ultrashort Workshop 2008
Paul Lundquist, Samvel Sarkisyan, Hector Martin, Eric Wilson, Stephen McCahon
Scott Tilden, Jeffery Babis, *Bonner Denton, “Filament Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy,” DEPS Ultrashort Workshop 2007
P. B. Lundquist, R. J. Adler, S. W. McCahon, H. Martin, V. M. Weeks, S. Sarkisyan, J. Yoon, J. Zhang, J. C. Hayden, E. Lau, “Ultrashort Filament Guided Discharges”, DEPS Ultrashort Workshop 2006
P. B. Lundquist, H. Martin, and S. W. McCahon, “Laser-Guided Discharge Channel Dynamics,” DEPS Symposium 2005
J. Yang. I. Makasyuk, H. Martin, P.G. Kevrekidis, B.A. Malomed, D.J. Frantzeskakis, and Z. Chen, "Necklace-like solitons in optically induced photonic lattices", Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113902 (2005).
H. Martin, E. D. Eugenieva, Z. Chen, and D. N. Christodoulides, "Discrete solitons and soliton-induced dislocations in partially coherent photonic lattices", Phys. Rev. Lett, 92, 123902 (2004).
Z. Chen, H. Martin, E. D. Eugenieva, J. Xu and A. Bezryadina, "Anisoptrophic enhancement of discrete diffraction and discrete soliton trains in partially coherent photonic lattices", Phys. Rev. Lett, 92, 143902 (2004).
D.N. Neshev, T.J. Alexander, E.A. Ostrovskaya, and Y.S. Kivshar, H. Martin, I. Makasyuk and Z. Chen, "Observation of discrete vortex solitons in optically-induced photonic lattices", Phys. Rev. Lett, 92, 123903 (2004).
Hector Martin, “Novel Phenomena Involving Soliton Interactions and Light-Induced Photonic Lattices”, Master Thesis, SFSU, May, 2003.
Z. Chen, S. Sears, H. Martin, M. Segev and D. N. Christodoulides, “Clustering of solitons in weakly-correlated wavefronts”, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, (PNAS), 99, 5223 (2002).
J. Klinger, H. Martin and Z. Chen, "Experiments on induced modulation instability of an incoherent optical beam", Optics Letters, 26, 271 (2001).
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