Ph.D. (Physics), University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 1989
M.S. (Physics), University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 1985
B.S. (Physics), Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, 1983
Dr. Kane joined the staff of Southwest Sciences as a Senior Research Scientist in March, 1992, and was promoted to Principal Research Scientist in December, 2000. In October 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. From 1989 to 1992 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His principal areas of research have included diagnostics for ultrafast lasers, nonlinear optics in metal vapors, and the kinetics and spectroscopy of absorbers in excimer lasers. At Southwest Sciences, Dr. Kane is developing gas sensors for combustion and industrial process monitoring using near-infrared diode lasers and is developing real time ultrafast laser pulse measurement systems.
Dr. Kane's accomplishments include 1) the development of a new technique to measure the intensity and phase of ultrafast laser pulses, 2) development of a new phase retrieval algorithm for the inversion of spectrograms, 3) development of a multichannel diode laser/fiber optic system for measurement of water vapor and methane in microgravity combustion experiments, 4) development of high speed absorption techniques for imaging combustion, 5) rotationally resolving Ne2 and Ar2 Rydberg states near Re, and 6) observation of competition between autoionization and predissociation in Ne2.
Dr. Kane has 35 publications, 4 patents, and 2 pending patents.
djkane@swsciences.com
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