Laser Beam Shaping

Dr. Mary Turner is a Technical Fellow in Optical Design for Edmund Optics. She has extensive design experience in a wide variety of optical systems including laser beam shaping, machine vision, spectrometers, telescopic systems, and projection systems. Mary received a Ph.D. in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona and has past experience as a Senior Scientist for Zemax and Director of Training for the Breault Research Organization. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences where she teaches optical design theory, optical design tools, and polarization device modeling.

Victoria Marcune was a former Product Support Engineer for Edmund Optics. They specialize in laser optics and create technical trainings and marketing content on various laser optics topics. Victoria received a B.S. in Physics from Temple University and worked in their Molecular Quantum Optics Laboratory, where they studied the changes in angular momentum of diatomic molecules during elastic collisions. Their work involved using laser systems to investigate these changes through the use of double resonance spectroscopy with polarized light.

Dr. Sergey Antipov is the founder of PALM Scientific, a high-precision laser microfabrication company serving the scientific community. PALM operates femtosecond, picosecond, nanosecond and microsecond laser systems with wavelengths from 206 - 1064 nm furnished with motorized optics and sample positioning hardware for processing of virtually any material. Sergey received his PhD in 2007 from Illinois Institute of Technology and performed his thesis work at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility. Sergey was a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory from 2007 - 2009. From 2010 – 2021, he was the Director of Radiation Sources Department at Euclid Techlabs, a microwave engineering company, where he managed a portfolio of commercial and government-funded R&D projects. He has performed experimental work at Argonne, Brookhaven, and SLAC national laboratories.

Dr. Alexander Laskin, Project Manager at AdlOptica GmbH in Berlin, Germany, is responsible for the development of laser beam shaping optical assemblies. He was named SPIE Community Champion in both 2020 and 2019 and AdlOptica’s foXXus multifocus optics technology won the 2018 Prism Award. Laskin’s areas of interests include optical system design for laser beam shaping and other applications, developing optical instruments, and multi-focus / multi-spot optics. Laskin received a PhD and undergraduate degree from Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

Product Line Manager for material processing applications, Gwenn Pallier holds a Masters’s degree in optical engineering from the Institute of Optics (Paris, France). As a project and product line manager at Cailabs, she brings her expertise to the development and commercialization of innovative optical solutions, that optimize the quality and performance of laser-based material processes.