DR. JOHN N. PIKE
Optical Instrument

Since 1985, Dr. Pike has also been the President and Chairman of a privately-held optics consulting company serving a wide range of industrial clients in the areas of instrumentation and materials characterization. His research to date has covered numerous optical projects including clinical chemistry photometry, throughput analysis of a fluorescent detection system, development and test of a simple measurement technique for residual birefringence in polymer cast as laser disk substrates, dye specifications for plastic filters for NIR LEDs, an electromagnetic shielding model for a conducting-flake-loaded polymer, characteristics of a low-cost LED-phototransistor optical switch when used as a sensitive liquid level sensor, ultra-low-cost IR sensing for rapid material identification, a new optical technique for determining the straightness of long, narrow boreholes in ceramic components for ion lasers, and analysis of particle size detection limits by a laser heating/IR sensing method in flowing pure gases (for semiconductor industry).