Contact Information
bbac2@unr.edu
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Degrees
Ph.D., Physics 1995 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg Va
M.S., Physics 1991 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va
B.S., Physics 1988 University of Colorado, Boulder, Co
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Selected Publications
Dr. Bernhard Bach Lecturer, Lab Director
Professional Experience
| 2003-2007 | Partner and Vice President, Bach Research Corp. |
| 2002-2003 | Head of Holography, Zolo Technologies |
| 1995-2002 | Partner in Hyperfine Inc. |
| 1994-1995 | Visiting scientist, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland |
1990 American Association of Physics Teachers Award
Research Interests
For the last ten years I have been designing and fabricating diffractive and reflective optics,
covering the IR to X-ray, for optoelectronic and spectroscopic applications. I have worked
closely with university research programs as well as foreign (ESA, DESY) and national
laboratories (NASA, NIST, LBL, etc.). Optics that I have had a hand in designing or fabricating
have seen use in space flight –– Scimachy and Venus Express missions, for example ––and
in synchrotron beamlines, SRC, ALS, NSLS and DESY. I also have close ties with industry,
helped large aerospace firms with space flight optics and I have aided high-tech firms in the
development of meteorological and spectroscopic instrumentation. I am currently a partner
in Bach Research Corp. and sit on the NSF’s Engineering Research Center For Extreme
Ultraviolet Science and Technology’s industrial advisory board.
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Publications & Presentations (2001-Present)
“Compact high-resolution space-borne echelle grating spectrometer with AOTF based order sorting for the infrared domain from 2.2 to 4.3 micrometers”, Dennis Nevejans et al., Applied Optics Vol. 45, No. 21, pg. 5191-5206, July 2006.
“Modern Echelons and Echelles for infrared spectroscopy”, B. Bach , K. Bach, Proc. SPIE Vol. 5901 , Solar Physics and Space Weather Instrumentation; Silvano Fineschi, Rodney A. Viereck: Eds. pg. 184-190, August 2005.
“Novel faceted mirror for a pushbroom IR sensor”. Thomas U. Kampe, Bernhard Bach, Proc., SPIE Vol.5523, Current Development in Lens Design and Optical Engineering V ; Pantazis Z. Mouroulis, Warren J. Smith, R. Barry Johnson; Eds., pg. 85-89, October 2004.
“Evaluation of UV/Ozone Cleaning of Nickel Mirrors”, Roger Hansen and Benny Bach. University of Wisconsin-Synchrotron Radiation Center, TECHNICAL NOTE, HYPERLINK
“http;//www.SRC.wisc.edu/faclities/src-tech-notes/tech_notes2003/src-201.pdf www.SRC.wisc.edu/faclities/src-technotes/tech_notes2003/src-201.pdf March 2003.
“Characterization of diffraction gratings by use of a tabletop soft-x-ray laser”, Seminario, et al., Applied Optics, Vol. 40, No. 30, pg. 5530-5538, October 2001.
“Characterization of diffraction gratings by use of a tabletop soft-x-ray laser”, M. Seminario, et al., SPIE Vol. 4419, 4th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and & 7th Latin American Meeting on Optics, lasers and Their Applications; Vera L. Brundy, Silvia A. Ledesma, Mario C. Marconi Eds. pg. 784-787, August 2001.
“Generation and application of high-average-power polarized soft-x-ray beam”, B. Benware, et al. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 18, No.7, pg. 1041-1045, July 2001.
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