Mr. Manni currently has an active secret clearance with DoD.

Resume for JG Manni

EDUCATION

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY    Boston, MA
Master of Business Administration, September 1987, High Technology Management Program.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY    Stanford, CA
Master of Science in Applied Physics, June 1980.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)    Cambridge, MA
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, June 1977, and Bachelor of Science in Physics, June 1978. "Minor" in molecular biology / biochemistry.

OTHER
Lowell Institute School (at MIT), Certificate of Electronics Technology, June 1984. Analog, digital, microprocessor, and CAD.


EXPERIENCE

JGM ASSOCIATES, INC.    Burlington, MA
7/88-Present. Laser hardware prototyping and technical marketing services pertaining to development of laser-based products and applications, specializing in medical laser and biotechnology instrumentation products. Prototyping and development of direct-diode and diode-pumped solid-state laser systems, including frequency-conversion (2HG, 3HG, 4HG, and 5HG) modules, and optical parametric oscillators. Some experience in VCSELs, external-cavity diode lasers, optically-pumped semiconductor lasers, and tunable diode lasers for DWDM (telecom) applications. Author and publisher of technology reports:Therapeutic Applications of Advanced Laser Products, and Dental Applications of Advanced Lasers.

SPIRE CORPORATION  Bedford, MA
10/93-5/95. Manager, Biomedical Lasers. Also Interim Manager, Semiconductor Laser Operations from 11/94-5/95. SBIR proposals. Fiber-coupled diode laser arrays; some diode-pumped laser R&D.

SCHWARTZ ELECTRO-OPTICS    Concord, MA
2/86-7/88. Staff physicist. R&D regarding solid-state lasers (holmium, erbium, Nd:YAG, others), optical parametric oscillators (OPOs), and medical laser applications. Laser spectroscopy of solid-state laser materials. Developer of Laser 123 scientific laser product.

RAYTHEON LASER PRODUCTS    Burlington, MA
9/83-2/86. Senior Engineer. Product development, manufacturing support, sales support, and field service for company's line of industrial CO2 and Nd:YAG laser products. Applications development.

CANDELA LASER CORPORATION  Natick, MA
6/81-7/82. Staff Scientist. Development of custom flashlamp-pumped dye laser systems.

QUANTA-RAY, INC.    Mountain View, CA
6/80-6/81.  Applications specialist and field service engineer. Technical sales support, applications development, field service, and manufacturing support for company's unstable-resonator Nd:YAG laser system, including pulsed dye laser and add-on nonlinear-optic conversion modules.

Publications

Manni JG, “Amplification of Microchip Oscillator Emission Using a Diode-pumped Wedged-slab Amplifier”, Optics Communications 252:117-126 (2005).

Wall KF, Smucz JS, Pati B, Isyanova Y, Moulton PF, Manni JG, “A Quasi-Continuous-wave Deep Ultraviolet Laser Source”, IEEE J Quantum Electronics 39:1160-1169 (2003).

Wall KF, Smucz JS, Isyanova Y, Pati B, Moulton PF, Manni JG, "A 200-mW, 205-nm, Quasi-CW, Deep Ultraviolet Laser Source, OSA TOPS Advanced Solid-State Lasers (2002).

Isyanova Y, Manni JG, Welford D, Jaspan M, Russell JA, "High-Power, Passively-Q-Switched Microlaser - Power Amplifier System", OSA TOPS Advanced Solid-State Lasers 50:186-190 (2001).

Snell KJ, Lee D, JG Manni, "High-Average-Power, High-Repetition-Rate, Side-Pumped Nd:YVO4 Slab Laser MOPA System", CLEO 1999, Baltimore, MD, Post-deadline paper CPD1-1.

Finch A, Ohsako Y, Sakuma J, Deki K, Horiguchi M, Mori Y, Sasaki T, Wall K, Harrison J, Moulton PF, Manni JG, "Development of a High-Power, High-Repetition-Rate, Diode-Pumped, Deep-UV Laser System", OSA TOPS Advanced Solid-State Lasers 19:16-18 (1998).

Wall KF, Snell KJ, Lee D, Jaspan MA, Francis MW, Moulton PF, Manni JG, "High-Power CW-Pumped Nd:YLF Lasers", 1998 Diode Laser Technology Review, Albuquerque, NM.

Moulton PF, Manni JG, Rines GA, "Spectroscopic and Laser Characteristics of Er,Cr:YSGG", IEEE J Quantum Electronics 24:960-973 (1988).

Patents

Manni JG, “High-Gain Diode-Pumped Laser Amplifier”, application filed Nov. 26, 2004. Assigned to JGM Associates, Inc.

Manni JG, Martinsen RJ, “Systems and Methods for Speckle Reduction Through Bandwidth Enhancement”,  US #6,975,294 B2, Issued Dec. 13, 2005, assigned to Corporation for Laser Optics Research (Portsmouth, NH).

Manni JG, Silva T, “Single Channel Scope Cleaning  Method and Apparatus”, US #5,225,001, Issued July 6, 1993. Assigned to Healthtek (Nevada, City, CA).

Publications, non-peer-reviewed

Manni JG, "High Power Diode-Based Lasers for Medical Applications", Biophotonics International, Jan/Feb 1997, pp. 40-47.

Manni JG, "New Hybrid Device Expands Microscope Capabilities", Biophotonics International, May/June 1996, pp. 42-49.

Manni JG, "Two-Photon Excitation Expands the Capabilities of Laser-Scanning Microscopy", Biophotonics International, Jan/Feb 1996, pp. 44-53.

Manni JG, "Lasers Illuminate the Human Genome Project", Biophotonics International, Sept/Oct 1995, pp. 48-57.

Manni JG, Therapeutic Applications of Advanced Lasers, 750-page report published by JGM Associates (1993).

Manni JG, Dental Applications of Advanced Lasers, 200-page report published by JGM Associates (2007).