CAREER SUMMARY

Mr. Labrum has a BS in Computer Science with over thirty years of experience in Government and private industry R&D. He has extensive experience in the design of optical systems for the UV, visible, and near IR portions of the spectrum. He has extensive experience in the use of several optical design programs including COOL-GENI, SODA, OSDP, and ZEMAX. He has traveled extensively through-out North America, Mexico, Mesoamerica, South America, and Europe and has basic skills in the Spanish Language. Mr. Labrum's creativity has been rewarded with ten U.S. Patents in optics, laser optics, acousto-optics, optical signal processing photo detector design, CCD design and electro-optics.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

PROPOSAL  &  PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Mr. Labrum has managed multiple projects, interfacing directly with the customer and developing optical systems to meet the customer's needs.  Managing each project from concept through costing, design, procurement, testing, validation, and final report(s).   Mr. Labrum has written, managed and/or co-authored over 40 white papers, proposals, final reports, and IR&D project reports.  Projects have included; visual color display systems, ultra-high-speed photographic systems,  acousto-optic systems,  optical-mux-demux systems,  helmet sighting systems,  laser alignment systems,  optical-heterodyne detecting systems,  wide-band fiber optic communication systems, and optical receivers to detect spread spectrum communications in real time - just to mention a few.

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS

Mr. Labrum has made numerous technical presentations and in-term progress reports to audiences all over the United States. He has also been the featured speaker/instructor at five, (week long) International conference-workshops on high speed photography.   He has also been an instructor for SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering) where he teaches two, continuing education, professional short courses in colorimetry:  Basic Color Perception and Measurement  and  Advanced Color Perception and Measurement.

Mr. Labrum is also an accomplished photographer.  His work appears in several published archaeological texts, He has also been a repeated guest lecturer at Brigham Young University where he presented his photography and lectured about Mesoamerican archeology.  He has also taught college accredited photography classes at both the University of Utah and Brigham Young University (BYU). 

NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Designed new, non-contact optical measurement technology to measure the diameter of fast moving extruded materials with an accuracy of 0.0002". This new technology has been incorporated into a new product line with present annual sales of over $1,000,000.00 (one Million dollars).

LASER BASED - MEDICAL SYSTEM DESIGN

Mr. Labrum has designed numerous laser based optical systems. These systems have included a visible laser and fiber-optic delivery system for experimental dental research in the treatment of periodontal disease. A high resolution, ultra-violet laser microscope for studying the size and velocity of microscopic (0.1micron -100micron) aerosol particles which may be inhaled and tapped in the lungs. A spectroscopic system to simultaneously monitor all of the spectral lines of a multi-line laser. This allowed the study of the power dynamics and stability of the cavity of a mixed gas medical laser. He has also developed a unique "optical hinge for lasers" or "articulated hinge." This new optical hinge provides the ability to continuously tilt, aim, or bend a laser beam by more than 4 degrees in any direction while maintaining diffraction limited  optical performance.

FOURIER OPTICS - SIGNAL PROCESSING

Mr. Labrum holds a half-dozen patents for his work in Fourier optics and acousto-optic signal processing. His unique approach to aperture weighting (optical and acoustic) and time base management provided several new, and novel method(s) of detecting state-of-the-art spread spectrum (Pseudo noise and frequency hopped) communications signals in real time, with near 100% probability of detection.

OPTICAL LENS AND REFLECTOR DESIGN

Mr. Labrum has designed many photographic and television imaging lenses and complex relay imaging systems for use both above and below (in) water. These systems have also required the custom design of specialized aspheric-reflector systems to deliver precisely controlled lighting to the subject.  He has also developed a new series of lighting reflectors for the professional photographer.  The shape of these new reflectors is unique in the world of lighting.  These reflectors provide 100% to 200% improvement in light efficiency over the existing technology reflector technology and provides drastically improved lighting uniformity.

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS

Mr. Labrum has developed numerous telescopes, collimators, and other optical instruments and techniques for alignment of optical systems in the production environment. He has also developed many optical instruments and techniques for the measurement of image quality and evaluation for the laboratory environment.   

Mr. Labrum has also developed a new family of ultra-light weight surgical telescopes for the dental profession. These new close-focusing, surgical telescopes, are the first, truly diffraction limited (optically perfect), surgical telescopes to be introduced into the world of surgery.

PHOTO-DETECTION

Mr. Labrum has an extensive background in photo-detection technology and holds several patents for his work in this area. He has developed unique, low noise, optical heterodyne detection techniques for the detection and recovery of complex, wideband (50MHz), electronic signals as well as an ultra high performance photo-detector array (non-agc'ed) with a measured instantaneous dynamic range of greater than 60 dB (1,000,000:1).

FIBER-OPTICS

Mr. Labrum has designed fiber-optic systems operating at wavelengths ranging from 200nm through 1300nm. Applications range from UV light delivery systems to high speed (2ghz), wide bandwidth (500mhz), long hall (10km), FSK data communications systems.

DOD Issued Security Clearance

DOD issued "Secret" Clearance from 1979 - 1989

EDUCATION

BSCS (BS Computer Science with Minor in Physics) University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 1971

CPP  Degree in Photography  1998  (Certified Professional Photography Degree) 

PROFESSIONAL  JOURNAL  PUBLICATIONS

"A Tunable, Variable Bandwidth, Acousto-Optic Filter," Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol 519, pp 25-33, October 24-26 1984.

"Optimizing the Compound Reflector Framing Spot Light," Journal of the SMPTE, Vol 87, No 10, October 1978, pp 694-699

"Size and Velocity Measurements of High Speed Microscopic Particles," Proceedings of the Technical Program at the Electro-Optical Systems Design Conference, Anaheim California, November 11-13 1975.

HOBBIES

Mr. Labrum enjoys;   photography,   travel,   archery,   hunting,  fishing,  gardening,  piloting private planes,   scuba diving,  and   Mesoamerican archaeology.

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