Charles Taylor

Ozen Engineering, Inc., USA

Title: Miniaturized Fiber-optic Endoscopes Using Metasurface Optics: A Simulation-driven Design Approach

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Biography

Charles Taylor is an Application Engineer at Ozen Engineering, Inc., specializing in optical and opto- mechanical engineering. He provides consulting, mentoring, and technical support for optical simulations using Ansys software. Charles earned his B.S. in Physics and Applied Mathematics from Western Michigan University, graduating top of his class with the Presidential Scholar Award. As an undergraduate, he conducted research at the Tandem Van De Graaff accelerator on radiative double electron capture and exotic x-ray photons. He later pursued graduate studies in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, focusing on improving large space telescope mirror designs to reduce PSF artifacts from spiders and segmentation, such as in JWST. Charles has served as Lead Optical Engineer on various government directed energy programs, developing high-energy laser weapon systems. He also productized a novel interferometric 3D imaging technology for handheld holographic diagnostics, used in advanced aircraft maintenance.

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