Donglin Ma's CV_Optical Engineering
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Donglin Ma is a Ph.D. candidate in optical sciences at the University of Arizona seeking a research position focusing on optical instrumentation, illumination engineering, and lens design. He has extensive experience developing freeform lenses for illumination applications and using optical design software. His research has focused on designing freeform lenses and reflectors using novel ray mapping techniques to tailor illumination for applications like LED lighting.
Donglin Ma's CV_Optical Engineering
- 1. DONGLIN MA College of Optical Sciences Ph.D. Candidate University of Arizona 520-903-8488 2333 E. Glenn St, Apt 111, AZ, 85719 donglin@optics.arizona.edu Objective Seeking a permanent research/engineering position focusing on optical instrumentation, illumination engineering, lens design, optical testing, and system engineering. Summary of skills 1. Extensive experience in in developing freeform lens for illumination 2. Strong background in lens design, including diffractive optical element (DOE) and computer generated holographic (CGH) element 3. Hands-on experience in optical metrology 4. Broad background on optical engineering and photonics, including thin film design, grating design, and multiscale system design 5. Proficient in optical software: LightTools, FRED, and Zemax 6. Experience in CAD software: SolidWorks and Rhino 7. Extensive experience in Matlab Education Sept. 2010-Aug. 2015 (expected) Ph.D. in Physics GPA: 3.75/4.0 College of Optical Science/Department of Physics, University of Arizona, USA Sept. 2013-May. 2015 (expected) M.S. in Optical Engineering GPA: 3.75/4.0 College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona Sept. 2006-July 2010 B.S. in Applied Physics GPA: 3.70/4.0 Nankai University, Tianjin, China Experiences Graduate Research Associate, Applied Optics Lab, College of Optics, University of Arizona, 10/ 2011 ~ Present, Advisor: Dr. Rongguang Liang. Freeform surface design for LED illumination engineering (PhD. research project) Designed a freeform total internal reflective (TIR) lens for LEDs rectangular illumination by using a new composite ray mapping method Developed a completely new design method called double pole ray mapping method to design freeform lenses for LEDs non-rotational illumination with extremely small surface error compared to traditional designs Applied the double pole ray mapping method to design freeform reflectors with super large acceptance solid angle (more than hemisphere) for LED illumination Proposed an integral ray mapping method by combining the Fresnel TIR lens and freeform lens array together to generate various irradiance patterns with very compact structures Introduced the concept of deconvolution into non-imaging optics design for generation of accurate irradiance patterns with an extended source Panoramic objective lens system design (M.S. research project) Designed panoramic objective lens system with both front view and side view for endoscopic applications Designed, reviewed and summarized Panoramic Annular Lens (PAL) systems and their applications Designed, reviewed and summarized panoramic imaging reflector systems and their applications Compared the performance of typical panoramic optical systems such as PAL system, panoramic imaging reflector and fish-eye lens Illumination systems design and instrumentation Dental headlight illumination system design for Johnson Dental labs, Inc. (07/2013 ~ 12/2013) Uniform collimated background illumination system design for optical micrometer applications. (01/2013 ~ 06/2013).
- 2. DONGLIN MA Diffraction grating based multi-view 3D display backlit system design and simulation (Course project). Optical surface testing and optical system calibration Designed, fabricated, and tested computer generated holography (CGH) for null compensator application (Maskless Lithography Tool, Veeco Dimension Microscope) Designed freeform laser beam shaper (LBS) for the generation of square flat top laser beam using classical geometrical ray mapping method and fabricated LBS (Diamond Turning) Tested freeform laser beam shapers surface with a CGH compensated ZYGO interferometer (Optical simulation, system calibration and optical alignment) Built a Twyman-Green interferometric system to calibrate the tool center of the Diamond Turning machine Graduate Teaching Associate Optics lab instructor for graduate students, College of Optical Sciences (01/2013~12/2013) Lab instructor for physics lab, Physics department (08/2010~01/2013) Workshop and other project experience Diamond Turning fabrication training in Moore Nanotechnology Systems, LLC. (08/2013~09/2013) Machine Shop Safety Training workshop, College of Optics (02/2014~ 04/2014 ) Design with Off-the-Shelf Components workshop, College of Optics and GO Edmund optics ( 02/2014~ 04/2014) Course projects: Pico-projector design; Parallax based distance measurement system instrumentation. Other projects: Digital fringe projection system instrumentation for 3D surface measurement; Non-imaging optics tolerance analysis based on PSD scatter model in FRED software Publications Peer reviewed journals: 1. Donglin Ma, Zexin Feng and Rongguang Liang, Freeform illumination lens design using composite ray mapping, Appl. Opt., 54 (3), 498-503 (2015). 2. Donglin Ma, Zexin Feng and Rongguang Liang, Deconvolution method in designing freeform lens array for structured light illumination, Appl. Opt., 54 (5), 1114-1117 (2015). 3. Donglin Ma, Zexin Feng and Rongguang Liang, Tailoring freeform illumination optics in double pole coordinate system, Applied Optics, Vol. 54, Issue 9, pp. 2395-2399 (2015) 4. Zexin Feng , Brittany D. Froese, Chih-Yu Huang, Donglin Ma, Rongguang Liang, Laser beam geometry transformations using double freeform-surface optics, submitted to Optica. 5. Donglin Ma, Zexin Feng, Rongguang Liang, Freeform reflector construction by ray mapping method in modified double pole coordinate system, in preparation. 6. Donglin Ma, Chengliang Wang, Rongguang Liang, A review of general panoramic objective lens system design, in preparation. Conference presentations: 1. Donglin Ma, Rongguang Liang, Freeform Lens for LED Dental Headlight, 2013 OSA Renewable Energy and the Environment Congress (Solid State and Organic Lighting). Selected graduate level courses Optical Design and Instrumentation I & II; Lens Design; Optical Testing; Illumination Engineering; Diffraction and Interferometry; Optical System Engineering; Optical Specification, Fabrication and Test; Radiometry Source and Detector; Thin Film Optics; Optical Physics and Lasers; Optical Design in Multiscale Photonic System; Polarization in Optical Design; Advanced Lens Design; Diffractive Optical Elements-Theory, Design and Lab; Introduction to Optical Spectroscopy; Polarized Light and Polarimetry. Society Activities Referee for OSA journals: Optics Express and Applied Optics References Available upon requested