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Greetings from Bozeman. My name is Slater Kirk. I currently work for Resonon in Bozeman MT designing imaging spectrometers and hyperspectral solutions.

I have a bachelor's in physics from Montana State and got to go through that program in a time where alot of lidar development was happening.

Masters in Optics from university of Arizona working on cylindrical optic aberration theory with Jose Sasian.

In-between degrees I was a laser integrator at Quantel (now Lumibird).

My interests are fairly broad. Practical use of models using python, pyScatMech, pcGrate, zemax, to understand optical performance. Lens manufacturing and diamond turned mirror fabrication and characterization. Sensor noise, performance, and characteristics. Novel optical designs, imaging system designs, scattering, stray light, and overall imager performance.
 
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Welcome to PF, Slater. It's great to have you here. :smile:
 
Hello there, and nice to meet all of you! My name is Olga, I am from Russia. I have a PhD in laser physics, and I work at the local university. I study chalcogenide lasers. I am a pure experimentalist, and I love working with my hands, et cetera, and I do math only when I have to. Sometimes I work with biologists. I do nothing exciting in research, and after my defence, I hardly can call myself a scientist because we have a lack of financial support, and most of my time I spend on teaching...

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