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Brandon D Chalifoux

  • Assistant Professor, Optical Sciences
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
  • Assistant Professor, Aerospace-Mechanical Engineering
Contact
  • (520) 621-4929
  • Grand Challenges Research Buil, Rm. 021
  • Tucson, AZ 85719
  • bchal@arizona.edu
  • Bio
  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

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

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Interests

Teaching

Optomechanical engineeringOptical fabrication and testingX-ray optics

Research

Optics for space systemsPrecision optical alignmentFabrication of accurate thin optical surfaces

Courses

2025-26 Courses

  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2025)
  • Intro Opto-Mech Engr
    OPTI 421 (Fall 2025)
  • Intro Opto-Mech Engr
    OPTI 521 (Fall 2025)
  • Optical Dsgn+Instrumnt I
    OPTI 502 (Fall 2025)

2024-25 Courses

  • Independent Study
    OPTI 599 (Summer I 2025)
  • Master's Report
    OPTI 909 (Summer I 2025)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Spring 2025)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2025)
  • Master's Report
    OPTI 909 (Spring 2025)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Spring 2025)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Fall 2024)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2024)
  • Intro Opto-Mech Engr
    OPTI 421 (Fall 2024)
  • Intro Opto-Mech Engr
    OPTI 521 (Fall 2024)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Fall 2024)

2023-24 Courses

  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Summer I 2024)
  • Directed Research
    OPTI 492 (Spring 2024)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2024)
  • Master's Report
    OPTI 909 (Spring 2024)
  • Optimechan Dsgn+Analysis
    OPTI 523 (Spring 2024)
  • Optomechan Dsgn+Analysis
    OPTI 423 (Spring 2024)
  • Thesis
    AME 910 (Spring 2024)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Spring 2024)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Fall 2023)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2023)
  • Intro Opto-Mech Engr
    OPTI 421 (Fall 2023)
  • Intro Opto-Mech Engr
    OPTI 521 (Fall 2023)
  • Intro Optomech Engr Lab
    OPTI 521L (Fall 2023)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Fall 2023)

2022-23 Courses

  • Master's Report
    OPTI 909 (Summer I 2023)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Spring 2023)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2023)
  • Independent Study
    OPTI 599 (Spring 2023)
  • Master's Report
    OPTI 909 (Spring 2023)
  • Optimechan Dsgn+Analysis
    OPTI 523 (Spring 2023)
  • Optomechan Dsgn+Analysis
    OPTI 423 (Spring 2023)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Spring 2023)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Fall 2022)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2022)
  • Intro Opto-Mech Engr
    OPTI 421 (Fall 2022)
  • Intro Opto-Mech Engr
    OPTI 521 (Fall 2022)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • Directed Research
    OPTI 492 (Spring 2022)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Spring 2022)
  • Master's Report
    OPTI 909 (Spring 2022)
  • Optimechan Dsgn+Analysis
    OPTI 523 (Spring 2022)
  • Optomechan Dsgn+Analysis
    OPTI 423 (Spring 2022)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Spring 2022)
  • Dissertation
    OPTI 920 (Fall 2021)
  • Intro Opto-Mech Engr
    OPTI 421 (Fall 2021)
  • Intro Opto-Mech Engr
    OPTI 521 (Fall 2021)
  • Thesis
    OPTI 910 (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Spring 2021)
  • Optimechan Dsgn+Analysis
    OPTI 523 (Spring 2021)
  • Optomechan Dsgn+Analysis
    OPTI 423 (Spring 2021)
  • Directed Graduate Research
    OPTI 792 (Fall 2020)

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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.

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