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Instructors for the lecture sessions are leaders in the infrared industry
and active in the latest developments in the field. These instructors, along
with Prof. Nadir Dagli of UC Santa Barbara, coach small groups of course participants
in the laboratory. A barbecue on the first night provides a relaxing environment
for participants to interact with the faculty in an informal setting and to
network with others attending the course.
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Dr.
Alan Hoffman
(Course Coordinator)
Chief Scientist
Acumen Scientific
Santa Barbara, California
With over 20 years experience in infrared focal planes, Dr. Hoffman has
developed sensors for defense, space, and astronomy applications and
has been involved with their design, manufacture, and testing. He has
a strong interest in teaching, beginning as a graduate student at Princeton,
later as an assistant professor at the University of Rochester.
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Mr. William Radford
Principal Engineering Fellow
Raytheon Vision Systems
Santa Barbara, California
Mr. Radford has 25 years of experience in the development of advanced infrared
detectors and focal plane arrays. He is a committee member for the Military
Sensors Symposium Detector Specialty Group. Mr. Radford has worked extensively
on both cooled and uncooled detector technology and his responsibilities
have ranged from advanced development to production implementation. His research
has included material and device development for HgCdTe photovoltaic and
VOx microbolometer detector arrays. His current work involves the development
of multi-color and large format infrared detector arrays. Mr. Radford has
led FPA development projects for military, space, and commercial applications.
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 Prof. Nadir Dagli
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California,
Santa Barbara
Trademarked photo,
Santa Barbara Focalplane
Dr. Dagli has been with UCSB since 1987. His current interests are design,
fabrication and modeling of guided-wave components for optical integrated
circuits, ultrafast electro optic modulators and WDM components, calculations
on the optical properties of quantum wires, and experimental study of novel
quantum devices based on ballistic transport in quantum wires. He is a
fellow IEEE.
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Ms. Lucy Thoms-Harrington
Product Line Director
Raytheon Vision Systems
Santa Barbara, CA
Ms. Thoms-Harrington has 29 years of experience in the infrared industry.
She has worked extensively in development of effective strategies across
military, space and scientific applications in the US and international
markets. Ms. Thoms-Harrington is currently responsible for the largest
product line at Raytheon Vision Systems, a leader in the infrared industry.
She holds a MBA from Pepperdine University and BS from California Polytechnic
State University, San Luis Obispo.
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Dr. Terrence S. Lomheim
Distinguished Engineer
The Aerospace Corporation
El Segundo, California
Trademarked photo,
Santa Barbara Focalplane
Dr. Lomheim has been employed at The Aerospace Corporation for the past
30 years during which time he has held both management and technical staff
positions. He has performed detailed experimental evaluations of the electro-optical
properties, imaging capabilities, and radiation effects sensitivities of
infrared and visible focal plane devices. He has also been involved in
the development of modeling tools used to predict instrument-level performance
for sensor systems hich use advanced infrared and visible focal plane technologies.
He is a part-time instructor in the physics department at the California
State University, Dominguez Hills and regularly teaches technical short
courses for the International Society for Optical Engineering (S.P.I.E.)
and for UCLA Extension. He is also co-author of CMOS/CCD Sensors and Camera
Systems along with Gerald C. Holst.
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Mr. John L. Vampola
Senior Engineering Fellow
Raytheon Vision Systems
Santa Barbara, California
Mr. Vampola has 28 years experience in infrared technology including
visible focal plane subsystems and instruments covering detector and readout
design, focal plane test and instrument design. He has also been the technical
director of several remote sensing instruments, and is the author of “Readout
Electronics for Infrared Systems” in the Infrared & Optical Systems
Handbook.
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 Mr. J. David Vincent
Senior Test Engineer
Indigo Systems, Inc.
Santa Barbara, California
Trademarked photo,
Santa Barbara Focalplane
Mr. Vincent is the author of a widely widely used book, Fundamentals
of Infrared Detector Operation and Testing. He is now consulting after
40 years as a IR test engineer and system engineer (Santa Barbara Research
Center, Amber Engineering, Raytheon Infrared Operations, FLIR-Indigo).
Mr. Vincent’s special interests include uncertainty analysis, radiometrics,
data analysis, and data presentation.
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