Pierre-Alexandre Blanche

Pierre is an Associate Research Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. His work there for the past decade has included development of the Dynamic 3D display, a US Air force founded project for producing a prototype of refreshing display showing 3 dimensional structures (3 Patents, Nature publication) as well as Photorefractive polymers, holography, and computer generated holograms.

His work also focuses on fast image aberration correction using a photorefractive phase conjugation mirror. Pierre is the Co-Founder and Scientific Adviser for ATHOL, which involves disperser for astronomic spectrometer, combiner for head up display, laser stretcher, and industrial spectrometer.

His projects with ATHOL include MUSE (VLT), Codex (OWL/ELT), VIMOS (VLT/Melipal), WIYN (NOAO), Eldim (Fr), OSIRIS (Grantecan). In 2006 he was a Space Instrumentation Specialist at the Centre Spatial de Liège, University of Liège, where he designed space instruments, including Phase Conjugating Mirror (PI: Thales instrumentation) and breadboard qualification (pdf); Experimental Solar Panel (sun concentrator), accelerated thermal cycling responsible; KuaFu, MOSES/CDI/EDI instruments interface, and image stabilization for satellite pointing and jitter compensation.