Fabrication and Metrology Techniques for Freeform Polymer Optics

About the presenter
Nelson E. Claytor, Ph.D., is the president of Fresnel Technologies Inc. (FTI), a leading privately owned manufacturer specializing in precision diamond-machined and molded optics. As an SPIE Fellow and a Senior Member of Optica, Claytor is widely recognized as an expert in the design and fabrication of specialty plastic optics. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, followed by master’s and doctoral degrees in atomic physics from the University of Notre Dame. Claytor also did a postdoctoral fellowship at the E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.