Optomechanical Laser Fusion Splicing Station

 

A Senior Design Project at the Univeristy of Central Florida

 

With students from CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics and the Department for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

In collaboration with LightPath Technologies

 

Project Poster

 

 

Laser Fusion Splicing In Action

 

 

 

Meet the Team:

Nicholas Kosan

Nick is majoring in Photonic Science and Engineering.  Following gradaution from UCF, Nick intends to continue to pursue his education in optics and photonics by joining the Ph.D. program in Electrical Engineering at Princeton Univeristy.  In this project, Nick contributed to the redesign of the beam path.

Christopher Kosan

Chris is studying mechanical engineering with a concentration in thermo-fluids and a minor in mathematics.  Upon graduating, Chris hopes to work towards his Professional Engineering licensure while continuing to further his modeling and simulation activities.  During the project, Chris developed the thermal modeling and oversaw hardware design and installation for the Laser Fusion Station.

Latifah Maasarani

At UCF, Latifah is completing her Bachelor’s Degree in Photonic Science and Engineering. After graduation, Latifah will pursue a Doctoral Degree in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University where she will conduct translational research by developing low-cost biophotonic point-of-care systems that detect and monitor various diseases. During this project, Latifah successfully upgraded the imaging system, developed image analysis methods to provide quantitative measurements during the alignment process, and created a custom MATLAB user interface to calibrate, monitor, and align the fusion components with minimal interaction from the LFS user.

Louis Everett

Louis is completing his degree in Mechanical Engineering. After completing his program, he plans on joining the workforce at Harris Corporation in Melbourne, Florida as one of their mechanical engineering associates within their space and intellegence systems department. Louis was responsible for automating the cleaving device as well as documenting a digital twin of the Laser Fusion Station.

Jason Benoit

Jason is completing his degree in Mechanical Engineering. His future plas include continuing to work at nScrypt as an R&D technician, and graduate school at UCF. Jason handled the feedback positioning system and the overall digital system control for this project.

 

A Special Thank You to LightPath Technologies.

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