Solving the Steep Challenges of Coating Aspheres

Amy Frantz is formerly an Optical Design Engineer working in Edmund Optics’ Barrington, NJ, USA office. She designs a wide variety of optical components, evaluates manufacturing tolerances, and tolerances optical systems for as-built yield predictions. Amy spent nearly three years optimizing Edmund Optics’ aspheric lens manufacturing and metrology procedures while investigating different manufacturing techniques. A focus on process improvement and training helped increase both capacity and efficiency in asphere manufacturing. Amy received her Bachelor’s degree from Juniata College in Physics and German, and her Master’s degree in Optics from the University of Rochester.

Chris Cook is a Technical Fellow working in Edmund Optics’ Barrington, NJ, USA office. He specializes in the design and fabrication of novel optical coating platforms and processes for high precision, high versatility, high LDT, low-stress, and ultrafast turn-around production systems. His experience includes over 10 years at MIT Lincoln Laboratory Quantum Electronics group developing coatings for advanced solid-state and semiconductor lasers as well as MOEMs devices. He continued working in MOEMS device development as director of coatings development at AXSUN Technologies where he is credited for developing in-situ-stress-controlled coating techniques and bringing processes into production for telecom channel monitors and OCT (swept source) lasers. He received his MSEE in Electro Optical Engineering from Tufts University and his BS in Physics from Sonoma State University.