Optical Engineer - Beam Expander & Optical Systems Design
Star Catcher, Jacksonville, Florida +1
What you will do
- Design reflective beam expanders for space-based laser applications under the technical direction of the designated optical design lead.
- Perform optical design, optimization, and tolerancing in Zemax OpticStudio or CODE V to satisfy beam diameter, divergence, wavefront quality, and pointing-range requirements.
- Model beam propagation from the laser source to the target, including Gaussian/M² effects, truncation, obscuration, and the impact of wavefront error on far-field irradiance.
- Build top-level beam-propagation WFE budgets, decompose them into finer line items, and track predicted versus measured performance.