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Brandon Chalifoux

Assistant Professor, Aerospace-Mechanical Engineering | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Assistant Professor, Optical Sciences

James C Wyant Coll Optical Sci
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8+ Collaborators
$2M / $2.5M Funding
4+ Grants
5+ Publications

About

The overarching goal of Chalifoux's grouis to enable next-generation space telescopes by developing new methods of precision fabrication, mounting, and alignment of lightweight optics, especially mirrors. The grouuses both experimental and analytical/numerical techniques to understand and improve on the behavior of these processes.

Research Area

metrology, deflectometry, ultrafast laser, on-machine, stress figuring, laser technology, optical engineering, materials, x-ray optics, manufacturing

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    Recent

    Adjustable height glass spacers for bonding and aligning x-ray mirror stacks

    2022
    materials, x-ray optics, manufacturing, mechanical design, alignment techniques

    Differential phase measuring deflectometry for on-machine metrology of ultrafast laser stress figuring

    2022
    metrology, deflectometry, ultrafast laser, on-machine, stress figuring

    Axial shift mapping metrology for x-ray telescope mirrors

    2022
    metrology, mirror, mapping

    Ultrafast laser stress figuring using on-machine differential deflectometry

    2022
    ultrafast laser, deflectometry, stress figuring, on-machine, laser machining

    Strategies for improving ultrafast laser stress figuring range and resolution

    2022
    laser technology, materials processing, optical engineering, nanofabrication, precision machining

    A diffraction-limited Wolter nested-shell telescope concept with pico-radian resolution

    2020
    telescope design, diffraction-limited imaging, nested-shell concept, pico-radian resolution, optical instrumentation

    • Daewook Kim

    • Lars Furenlid

    • Khanh Kieu

    • Alex Craig

    • Thomas Koch

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    • Introductory Optomechanical Engineering

    • Optomechanical Design and Analysis

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