Project Manager  949.555.1212 x 123 Dr. Jackson received the PhD degree in plasma physics from North Carolina State University in 1984. He worked for Mission Research Corporation until 1985 when he joined the Naval Research Laboratory. In 1998 he accepted a position with Lucent Technologies, Inc. as a member of the technical staff. He currently consults for several clients in the areas of fiber optics and high-frequency electromagnetics. Dr. Jackson is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Pi Sigma honor societies.
Dr. Jackson has made significant contributions to the field of intense beam and low-voltage free-electron lasers. In the late 1970s he developed a new high-voltage electron gun that improved beam quality by several orders of magnitude over previous designs. This gun design was widely adopted and became a standard in the intense beam Free Electron Laser (FEL) community for many years thereafter, leading to significantly better agreement between theory and experiments. He also developed a new technique to verify the quality of the electron beam. The experiment in which the advanced gun was employed was the first intense beam FEL to achieve significant Radio Frequency (RF) efficiencies and to demonstrate the gyro-resonant wiggler enhancement, which occurs when a solenoidal field is used in conjunction with a helical wiggler field. The results of this research were published in Physical Review Letters.
In the 1980s Dr. Jackson initiated development of a low-voltage FEL (ubitron) that resulted in the highest power broadband amplifier yet demonstrated, approximately 4.5MW in Ku-band over a 40% bandwidth with 20% electronic efficiency. In a separate experiment he conceived and demonstrated the first second harmonic FEL, a periodic-position driven RF interaction. This research was also published in Physical Review Letters.
Dr. Jackson has been active in simulation and modeling since the start of his thesis research in the late 1970s. He served as guest editor for a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices on modeling of vacuum electronic devices. In the 1990s his interest in simulation led to his management of the tri-Service Microwave and Millimeter Wave Advanced Computational Environment (MMACE) program, an effort to develop an integrated framework for the design and modeling of electromagnetic devices. The focus on modeling continued with a sabbatical year in the UK spent working with Dr. J. W. Eastwood on beam-RF modeling. Dr. Jackson developed and implemented a fast, accurate and compact algorithm for the flexible modeling of coil-derived magnetic fields in simulation codes. His interest in FELs continued with development of alternate wiggler and interaction geometries. In particular, a novel coaxial FEL was constructed and tested, resulting in the lowest voltage operation of an FEL ever achieved.
In the communications industry, Dr. Jackson has developed innovative algorithms for the calibration and de-embedding of S-parameters, and for accurate cascading of separately measured/simulated components. He has also developed new algorithms for the simulation and optimization of Raman effects in optical fiber communication systems. Tip: How to replace this image with your own. Software Architect  (240) 575-5357 Michael McLay began using computers as a Cooperative Education Student at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, then known as the National Bureau of Standards) in 1981. He wrote robot workcell control software in the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility and participated in the debugging of the first factory floor computer network. Mr. McLay also helped design, construct, and program a data gathering and analysis instrument for measuring surface properties of machined parts. Mr. McLay graduated from George Washington University with an Electronics Engineering/Computer Science degree in 1985 and joined Fairchild Space Company (FSC). At FSC he learned the art of systems engineering as a member of Lou Sprott’s multi-mission modular satellite team. He served on a manufacturing policy committee at FSC and established an interactive 3-D satellite deployment simulation facility for FSC. Mr. McLay returned to NIST in 1989 and set up several computer laboratories for testing product data exchange standards for industry. As a research staff member at NIST, he consulted with industry and government organizations on the development of free and open source software (FOSS), product data standards, and eCommerce standards. He was the chief architect for the IPC-25XX series of eCommerce standards. As a standards architect, he helped the IPC become an early adopter of XML as a business information exchange format. He won the 1999 IPC President's Award for his leadership in the development of the IPC-2511 (GenCAM) standard and the 2001 Distinguished Technical Committee Service Award. Mr. McLay left NIST in 2003 and is now advising senior government IT staff on the best practices for using FOSS in an enterprise. He has helped organize conferences and workshop for the FOSS community. He is a long time contributor and volunteer to the Python language community and has been using Linux on his desktop since 1998. He is a founding member of the Python Software Foundation. Graduate Student  949.555.1212 x 123 Ashutosh Mishra received his BE (Electrical Engineering) from the Manipal Institute of Technology and M.S. (Electrical Engineering) from Old Dominion University, Norfolk in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He worked as Senior Engineer (R&D) in the automotive sector between 1999 July and May 2001. He is currently pursuing his Doctorate in department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University. His research interests include computational methods,DSP, artififical neural networks and high performance computation. More on his interests is available at his academic home page.Profess 949.555.1212 x 123 Dr. Joshi received the B. Tech. and M. Tech. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University, Tempe, in 1988. He was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Center of Solid State Electronics Research, Arizona State University. In 1989, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University as an Assistant Professor. He is currently a full Professor and involved in research broadly encompassing modeling and simulations of charge transport, non-equilibrium phenomena, and bio-electrics. He has also used Monte Carlo methods for simulations of high-field transport in bulk and quantum well semiconductors and is the author of over 70 journal publications. He has been a visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Philips Laboratory, Motorola and NASA Goddard in the past. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. |
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