Brandon Dube

Optical Engineer

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Biography

Brandon Dube is an Optical Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His research interests include phase retrieval and other topics in computational diffraction as well as control systems and optical design. His Bachelor’s thesis introduced a new mode of phase retrieval based on MTF measurements. His work has flight heritage on both flagship NASA missions and new space constellations.

Interests

Phase Retrieval
Wavefront Sensing
Control Systems
Optical Design

Education

B.S. in Optics, 2018
University of Rochester

Experience

Optical Engineer

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Aug 2019 – Present Pasadena, CA

Computational diffraction and modeling, testbed assembly, marriage of hardware and software.

Optical Engineer

Aperture Optical Sciences

Jun 2018 – Jul 2019 Meriden, CT

Assembly lead for small satellite space telescopes in volume production (a dozen+ units). Problem solver for flat optic and OAP production.

Co-Founter, Director of Metrology

Olaf Optical Testing

May 2015 – Aug 2019 Memphis, TN

Design and fabrication of custom instruments and associated data packages.

Recent Publications

Exascale integrated modeling of low-order wavefront sensing and control for the Roman Coronagraph instrument

Astronomical instruments to detect exoplanets require extreme wavefront stability. For these missions to succeed, comprehensive and …

Brandon Dube, A.J. Riggs, Brian D. Kern, Eric J. Cady, John E. Krist, Hanying Zhou, Bijan Nemati, Byoung-Joon Seo, John Steeves, David Arndt, Milan Mandić, Joel Shields, Dhemetrios Boussalis, Alfredo Valverde, Zahidul Rahman, Nanaz Fathpour

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