Mountain View, CA., November 20, 2003. Spectra-Physics has strengthened its engineering capabilities with two highly experienced laser scientists. Dr. Jim Harrison has joined the company as Director of Engineering for the diode lasers group, located in Tucson, AZ. Dr. Stuart MacCormack becomes Senior Laser Engineer in the industrial and scientific lasers group in Mountain View, CA.
Dr. Harrison will assume responsibility for research, product development and sustaining engineering for the company's entire diode laser product family, including single emitters, bars, and multi-bar modules. Harrison has over 15 years experience in the design of semiconductor and solid state laser systems, and was most recently Vice-President of Engineering for the Semiconductor Laser Group at Coherent. Harrison holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT.
Dr. MacCormack's primary responsibility will be product development in the area of fiber lasers. MacCormack received his Ph.D. in Laser Physics from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Prior to joining Spectra-Physics, he served as a staff scientist at JDS Uniphase, managing Raman and optical amplifier development programs.
Founded in 1961, Spectra-Physics was the first commercial laser business and has grown to become a leader in the design, development, manufacture, and distribution of solid-state and high-power semiconductor lasers, gas lasers and ultrafast systems for industrial, scientific, micro-electronics, and biomedical markets.
Today, Spectra-Physics has expanded to provide a broader spectrum of photonics products, capabilities, and services including Corion thin-film interference filters, Hilger scintillation and electro-optic crystals, replicated diffraction gratings from Richardson Gratings, Oriel Catalog and Instruments, and CIDTEC charged-injection device (CID) solid-state video cameras.
Spectra-Physics is a wholly-owned business of Thermo Electron Corporation. For more information, visit www.spectra-physics.com .
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