Brandon D Chalifoux
- Assistant Professor, Optical Sciences
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
- Assistant Professor, Aerospace-Mechanical Engineering
Contact
Degrees
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Figure correction of thin plate and shell substrates using stress generated by ion implantation
- M.S. Mechanical Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Ion implantation for figure correction of high-resolution x-ray telescope mirrors
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering
- Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States
Awards
- American Society of Precision Engineering Early Career Award
- American Society of Precision Engineering, Fall 2022
- Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship
- NASA, Summer 2022
Interests
Teaching
Optomechanical engineeringOptical fabrication and testingX-ray optics
Research
Optics for space systemsPrecision optical alignmentFabrication of accurate thin optical surfaces
Courses
No activities entered.
Scholarly Contributions
Proceedings Publications
- Chalifoux, B. D., & Arnold, I. J. (2022). Adjustable height glass spacers for bonding and aligning x-ray mirror stacks. In Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 12181.
- Esparza, M. A., Laverty, K. A., Chalifoux, B. D., & Kim, D. (2022, November). Ultrafast laser stress figuring using on-machine differential deflectometry. In 37th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Precision Engineers.
- Esparza, M. A., Laverty, K., Chalifoux, B. D., & Kim, D. (2022). Differential phase measuring deflectometry for on-machine metrology of ultrafast laser stress figuring. In Optical Manufacturing and Testing XIV, 12221.
- Laverty, K. A., Esparza, M. A., Arnold, I. J., Kim, D., & Chalifoux, B. D. (2022). Strategies for improving ultrafast laser stress figuring range and resolution. In Optical Manufacturing and Testing XIV, 12221.
- Laverty, K. A., Esparza, M. A., Kim, D., & Chalifoux, B. D. (2022, November). Strategies for improving ultrafast laser stress figuring range and resolution. In 37th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Precision Engineering.
- Wisniewski, H. J., Arnold, I. J., Heilmann, R. K., Schattenburg, M. L., & Chalifoux, B. D. (2022). Axial shift mapping metrology for x-ray telescope mirrors. In Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 12181.
- Wisniewski, H. J., Chalifoux, B. D., Arnold, I. J., Schattenburg, M. L., & Heilmann, R. K. (2022, November). Axial shift mapping for absolute metrology of X-ray telescope mirrors. In 37th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Precision Engineering.
- Schattenburg, M. L., Heilmann, R. K., Marshall, H. L., Chalifoux, B. D., & Kara, E. (2020). A diffraction-limited Wolter nested-shell telescope concept with pico-radian resolution. In Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 11444.
