Expert Profile
Education:
***** - MS Physics, Optical Engineering, Chernovtsy State University, USSR.
Employment:
1975 – 1979 – Lens Designer, Vivitar Corp. , Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Optical design of photographic systems, including fixed focus and zoom lenses for 35 mm photography.
1979 – current – Vice President, ***** Associates & ***** Design Associates, Cincinnati, OH, USA -
***** is an optical design consulting company specializing in the design of zoom lenses and the utilization of aspherical optics. Our designs ***** variety of products such as photographic zoom lenses; lenses for projection television; zoom lenses for motion picture industry; imaging systems for industrial video, medical and space optics; as well as optics used in surveillance, copiers and numerous other applications. Additionally ***** has tools and expertise in the design of illumination and other non-imaging systems.
Partial list of clients includes: Vivitar Corp. , Eastman Kodak, US Precision Lens, Polaroid, 3M, US Navy, Panavision, GE, Schneider, Bausch & Lomb, TI, and Corning.
Accomplishments:
Authored and co-authored numerous inventions in the field of lens and optical design, resulting in over 50 US as well as a number of foreign patents granted.
Publications:
Over 50 US Patents granted.
Co-author of “Camera Lenses” chapter in the Handbook of Optics, Vol. 1, Chapter 27, Third Edition, McGraw Hill.
Various presentations at SPIE, OSA and SID professional conferences.
One of the principals at ***** Associates Inc. since 1979.
***** is an optical design consulting company specializing in the design of zoom lenses and the utilization of aspherical optics. Our designs ***** variety of products such is photographic zoom lenses; lenses for projection television; zoom lenses for motion pictures industry; imaging systems for industrial video, medical and space optics; as well as optics used in surveillance, copiers and numerous other applications.
Additionally ***** has tools and expertise in the design of illumonation and other non-imaging systems.
For more details refer to www.*****associates.com.
*****, Optical engineer / Lens designer at Vivitar Corp.
*****, MS Physics, Optical Engineering, Chernovtsy State University, USSR.
OSA, SPIE, SID
Authored and co-authored numerous inventions in the field of lens and optical design, resulting in over 50 US and well as a number of foreign patents granted.
Co-author of "Camera Lenses" chapter in the Handbook of Optics, Vol.1, Chapter 27, Third Edition, McGraw Hill.
Various papers and presentations at SPIE, OSA and SID professional conferences.