BRUCE RICHMAN

home address:

1134 Portola Meadows Rd.
Apt. 124
Livermore, CA 94550-7909

business address:

Sandia National Laboratories
M/S 9051
P. O. Box 969
Livermore, CA 94551-0969

Academic Objectives:
Interests include: nonlinear optics, quantum optics, electro-optics, materials science, and biophysics. I also wish to begin formal teaching. My long term goal is to become a professor at a major university.

Employment and Education:
1996-present . Post-doctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories.
1995 . . . . . . . . Research affiliate at UC Irvine Dept. of Physics.
1992-1994 . . . Post-doctoral affiliate at Stanford University Hansen Labs.
1984-1991 . . . PhD 1991 in Applied Physics, Stanford University.
1986 . . . . . . . . MS in Applied Physics. Course work specialized in electro-optics and lasers.
1980-1984 . . . BS (with honors) California Institute of Technology in Physics. Additional concentration in Applied Math and Biology.

Research Experience:
1996-present

• Developed achromatic phase-matching techniques, mostly for second-harmonic generation of tunable and ultrashort lasers. I obtained conversion over 15% tunable bandwidth. The final device will soon be offered as a commercial product.
• Assistance with atmospheric LIDAR maesurements.

• Constructed mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser for application to time-resolved spectroscopy of condensed matter, and guided graduate student to inherit project.

• Installed a new free-electron laser (FEL) system which is currently the mid-IR workhorse of the Stanford Picosecond FEL Center user facility.
• Responsible for integrating the diagnostics system for the FEL, defining diagnostics needs, building new diagnostics, and updating old ones.
• Investigated optical coating and detector needs, specified for purchase several different types of detectors and specialized coatings for the laboratory, and cooperated with vendors to effect improvements in both.
• Consulted on about half of the optics layouts, taught students proper optics techniques, and helped them to solve experimental problems and to improve their experiments.
• Independently studied "frequency resolved optical gating" (FROG) and used it to determine unambiguously the FEL pulse structure, the first such measurement done either on an FEL or in the mid-IR.
• Collaborated in nonlinear optical studies of quantum well devices.
• Involved with synchronization of Ti:Sapph laser with the FEL.
• Assisted with the development of an electron beam pulse temporal length and shape diagnostic.

Dissertation (1986-91):
Title: Three-dimensional Guiding Effects in a Free Electron Laser
Includes autocorrelation experiments on an FEL to determine some of the threedimensional characteristics of the picosecond laser pulses.

• Advisor: Prof. John M. J. Madey (Electrical Engineering), inventor of the free-electron laser, now professor of physics at Duke University.
• Co-advisor: Prof. Robert Byer (Applied Physics), Stanford University.

1984-88:

• Developed a new technique for constructing a high quality magnetic wiggler (for an FEL), characterizing, and installing a new FEL.
• Was one of two graduate students working on the first FEL/MOPA demonstration.

Senior year 1983-4

• Developed anti-reflection layers on scintillator crystals using a Van de Graff accelerator, an alpha emitter, and chemical etching techniques.

Summers 1982-4:

• Research assistant at the Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory at UC Irvine. Work included data reduction, some programming, and handling animals.

Computer Experience:

• Extensive programming and hardware experience with MacIntosh (including standard user interface) and IBM PCs.
• Computer languages: C, C++, Pascal, FORTRAN, Basic, and assembly, "LabView" data acquisition and control environment

Teaching Experience:
1994:

• Teaching assistant for undergraduate physics course primarily for pre-medical students.

• Voluntary and paid tutoring in undergraduate math and physics. Excellent rapport with both graduate and undergraduate students.

• Private tutoring in highschool math and science including all levels of advancement and difficulty.

Publications and Presentations in separate document.

Honors:

• B.S. with honors, Caltech
• Member Tau Beta Pi

Professional Organizations:

• American Physical Society
• Optical Society of America

References:

• Scott Bisson, Research Scientist at Sandia National Laboratory: (510) 294-2467.
• Rick Trebino, Senior Research Scientist at Sandia National Laboratory and inventor of FROG: (510) 294-2893.
• Alan Schwettman, post-doc advisor and Professor of Physics at Stanford University: (650) 723-0305.
• Todd Smith, post-doc advisor and Professor of Physics at Stanford University: (650) 725-1906, tismith@leland.stanford.edu.
• Martin Fejer, FEL collaborator and Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University: (650) 725-2160.
• Michael Fayer, FEL collaborator and Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University: (650) 723-4446.
• John M. J. Madey, thesis advisor and Professor of Physics at Duke University: (919) 681-8743.
• Stephen Benson, FEL project manager at Jefferson Laboratory (CEBAF): (757) 249-5026.
• Robert Byer, thesis co-advisor and Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University: (650) 723-0227.
• Mark Curtin, Rocketdyne representative at Stanford, currently at Rocketdyne, Canoga Park: (818) 700-4880.
• Robert Phalen, Professor and director of the Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory at UC Irvine: (714) 856-6552.
• Thomas Tombrello, Professor of Physics at Caltech (undergraduate research advisor).
• Isaac Richman, MDC fellow, McDonnell-Douglas Aerospace (and father): (714) 896-1081.