Distinguished Professor Bill Colson
Distinguished Professor of Physics

Dr. Colson joined NPS in 1989. His research is centered on the theory and simulation of free-electron lasers. Prof. Colson has been the Principal Investigator of 45 research contracts with LANL, LLNL, SPAWAR, AFOSR, ONR, NASA, NRL, LBL, and NSF. He has published 120 research papers, holds 3 patents, and has given 62 invited lectures. He has been a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Quantum of Electronics, and is a Co-Editor of a book entitled Free Electron Laser Handbook. Prof. Colson has advised over 48 M.S. thesis students and 4 Ph.D. dissertation students at NPS. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Optical Society of America, the American Society of Naval Engineers. He was awarded the 1989 Free Electron Laser Prize. Phone, 831-656-2765, Email: colson@nps.edu

Professor Bob Armstead
Associate Professor of Physics

Dr. Armstead joined the faculty of NPS in 1965. He has worked on problems relating the theory of low energy electron-atom scattering. His current interests are in the teaching of physics and in the computer simulation of free-electron lasers. Phone: 831-656-2125, Email: armstead@nps.edu

Dr. Joe Blau
Research Professor

Dr. Blau joined NPS in 1989. His research interest is computer simulations of Free Electron Lasers. Over the past 25 years he has developed, along with Prof. Colson, a set of programs for simulating FELs on desktop workstations. His recent research, and an aspect of his Doctoral Dissertation, has been on short Rayleigh length optical cavities for high power FELs, FEL amplifiers and oscillators, and the 4 dimensional simulation of optical pulses in the FEL. Phone: 831-656-2635, Email: blau@nps.edu

Dr. Peter Crooker
Senior Lecturer

Dr. Crooker joined the NPS faculty in 2002, after a 30 year tenure at the University of Hawaii, where he was a Professor of Physics. He has long been involved in optical techniques for the study of condensed matter. He has patented an electrically switchable color display using cholesteric liquid crystal droplets. For the last few years Crooker was active in the free-electron laser program initiated by Prof. John Madey at the University of Hawaii. Now at NPS, he works with Prof. Colson modeling and simulating free-electron laser behavior. He has published over 50 articles. He received the University of Hawaii Board of Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching in 1997. Phone: 831-656-2232, Email: ppcrooke@nps.edu

Mr. Eric Adint
Research Associate

Mr. Adint has 10 years professional experience supporting computers. He is experienced in the programming languages C, C++, Perl, and Postscript. He has extensive experience with workstations and servers using operating systems UNIX, Mac OS 7 through OS X, Microsoft 3.11 through XP. He has extensive experience in network, database, imaging, design architecture and implementation. Phone: 831-656-3440, Email: ehadint@nps.edu

Raquel Herold
Research Assosiate

Raquel joined the Physics Department in 2004. She provides support for the Free Electron Laser and Railgun research and development projects.