High-End Asphere Design for Manufacturability

Amy Frantz is formerly an Optical Design Engineer working in Edmund Optics’ Barrington, NJ, USA office. She designs a wide variety of optical components, evaluates manufacturing tolerances, and tolerances optical systems for as-built yield predictions. Amy spent nearly three years optimizing Edmund Optics’ aspheric lens manufacturing and metrology procedures while investigating different manufacturing techniques. A focus on process improvement and training helped increase both capacity and efficiency in asphere manufacturing. Amy received her Bachelor’s degree from Juniata College in Physics and German, and her Master’s degree in Optics from the University of Rochester.

Lars Sandström was formerly Manager of the Precision Optics Unit in Edmund Optics’ Barrington, NJ, USA office. His experience in the photonics industry includes key roles in photonics companies such as Edmund Optics, Gammadata AB, Thorlabs Quantum Electronics Inc., Thorlabs Sweden AB, Radians Innova AB, and AltOptonics AB. Lars’ previous roles include General Manager, Business Line Manager, Business Unit Leader, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Laser System Manager, Development Engineer, and Quality Manager. He received a Master’s degree and a Technical Licentiate degree from Chalmers University of Technology.

Oleg Leonov was formerly an Asphere Business Development Manager working in Edmund Optics’ Barrington, NJ, USA office. He brings a wealth of optics and business experience from within the optics industry. His most recent position was as Senior Product Line Manager at Tellabs Oy/Coriant in Espoo, Finland. Oleg holds a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering with focus on Electro-Optics from Pennsylvania State University.