John Bellum, PhD
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
of America
50 Years Experience
Consultant in Optical Coatings, Coherent
Technologies, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Experience
Sandia National
Laboratories
Scientist and Engineer in
Optical Engineering / September, 2012 —
February, 2017
Lead optical
engineer/scientist for
Sandia's large optics
coating facility responsible
for the design and
production of high
laser-induced damage
threshold optical coatings
for the meter-size windows,
mirrors, and lenses of
Sandia's Z-Backlighter
petawatt-class lasers.
Sandia National
Laboratories
Optical Engineer and
Scientist under contract
to Sandia National
Laboratories / April, 2004 —
September, 2012
Lead optical
engineer/scientist for
Sandia's large optics
coating facility responsible
for the design and
production of high
laser-induced damage
threshold optical coatings
for the meter-size windows,
mirrors, and lenses of
Sandia's Z-Backlighter
petawatt-class lasers.
Research Expertise
Optical coatings for high energy
lasers
Laser damage resistant optical
coatings
Laser optics
Materials science
Surfaces and interfaces
And 2 more
About
I am a consultant specializing in
laser damage resistant optical
coatings. I have extensive
experience as a physicist and optical
engineer, with BS and PhD degrees in
physics, SPIE and Optica (formerly
Optical Society of America) senior
memberships, and 50+ scientific
publications. My expertise in
laser damage resistant optical
coatings is based on my experience at
Sandia National Laboratories where,
from 2004 to 2017, I designed and
produced optical coatings for the
meter-size optics of Sandia’s
petawatt-class Z-Backlighter high
energy lasers. I was a distributor for
OptiLayer Thin Film Software from 2017
to 2022.