Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
I am a hands-on fiber laser R&D and production expert specializing in project execution and technical team leadership with 10+ years of Industrial and R&D experience. My focus is on making things work - building lasers from scratch, resolving production bottlenecks, and developing focused, result-oriented technical teams. Most of my experience centers on bridging the "Lab-to-Fab" gap, taking complex fiber laser systems from R&D into scalable, high-yield production. My core areas of focus are manufacturing readiness, quality control, and continuous process improvement. Supported by an MS in Laser Engineering and a PhD, I possess the technical depth to collaborate seamlessly with R&D on design changes, managing the execution of optical simulations (including COMSOL and Zemax), and SolidWorks-based mechanical and thermal design tasks to turn complex laser concepts into practical solutions. I am equally comfortable stripping and splicing fibers in the morning, then executing DFX reviews with clients and supply chain partners in the afternoon. Key Achievements in Numbers * Latest Technical Milestone: Developed and assembled high-power fiber laser prototypes, including a 1064 nm CW Narrow-Linewidth Single-Mode at 3.2 kW (mitigating thermal effects, SBS and TMI) and a 1950 nm CW Single-Mode laser at 425 W. * Leadership & Scale-up: Led the manufacturing scale-up to deliver 450 devices across 3 experimental product models (including CW Thulium medical-grade lasers, 623 nm 10 W fiber lasers, and Ytterbium picosecond experimental seeds) with a team of 10 people in 18 months. Core Competencies & Skills: * R&D & Design Management: High-power (kW-class) amplifier design, specialty active fiber handling (LMA), non-linear optical mitigation (SBS, SRS, TMI), and beam delivery. * Metrology, Production, Test: Fiber Splicer, Cleaver, Recoater, Optical spectrum analyzers (OSA), Beam profiling, Power meters, Power supplies, Oscilloscopes, PD detectors and custom environmental stress screening setups. * Modeling & Simulation Oversight: Defining technical requirements and managing specialized tasks in COMSOL, Zemax, SolidWorks (mechanical and thermal design). * Manufacturing & NPI: Phase-Gate development, Design for Manufacturability (DFX) * Quality & Product Health: First Pass Yield (FPY) optimization, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), systematic root-cause investigations, and RMA resolution. * Cross-Functional Integration: Collaborative communication across R&D, Operations, QA, Sales, and Global Supply Chain teams.
My current role is to develop and build experimental high power fiber laser sources and fiber components. Along with that I am developing engineering and research capabilities among local talents and in industry.
I launch and manage small-scale manufacturing of new laser devices for scientific and medical applications
Research and development of new optical materials (glass and crystals) for optics and fiber optics. Advanced experience with laboratory equipment in the field of fiber optics and spectroscopy. Presentation of research results in the form of publications in leading scientific journals and at Russian and International scientific conferences.