Space debris removal, laser space propulsion, short pulse laser applications, nonlinear optics and magneto-optics

Bio Sketch

Dr. Claude Phipps

Claude Phipps earned B.S. and M.S. degrees at MIT, and a Ph.D. in plasma physics at Stanford University in 1972. He formed Photonic Associates, LLC (PALLC) in 1995. He originated the "ORION" and “L’ADROIT” concepts for laser space debris re-entry, and the laser plasma thruster, and has chaired the High Power Laser Ablation conference in Santa Fe since 1998. He has published several technical books:

C. R. Phipps and R. W. Dreyfus, "Laser ablation and plasma formation" in Laser Ionization Mass Analysis,  Akos Vertes, Renaat Gijbels and Fred Adams, eds., Chemical Physics Monographs 124, pp. 369-441 (1993)

C. Phipps , ed., Laser Ablation and its Applications, Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 129, Springer, New York (2007), pp. 407-434

C. Phipps, with Friedelwolf Wicke (Illustrator), No Wonder You Wonder! Great Inventions and Scientific Mysteries,  Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

C. Phipps, “Laser ablation propulsion and its applications in space,” in Advances in the Applications of Lasers in Materials Science, P. Ossi, ed., Springer Series in Materials Science 274, Springer Nature, Switzerland (2018) pp. 217-246

He has also published three general interest books: No Wonder you Wonder (Springer), When Scientists were Gods (Newman Springs) and An American Family (Page Publishing).

Los Alamos and Livermore National Labs, and Photonic Associates since 1995

MS MIT 1963

PhD Stanford U. 1972

• Chair, Second International Forum on Physics and Astronomy, 14-16 November, 2022, Valencia, Spain

•   Member, organizing committee, 5^th International Conference on Optics, Photonics and Lasers (OPAL), 18-20 May, 2022, Tenerife Spain and 6^th OPAL Madeira Portugal 17-19 May 2023

•   Advisory Chairman and Organizing Committee, 5^th OPAL 18-20 May, 2022 (Tenerife)

•   Organizer and Chair, Santa Fe High Power Laser Ablation Symposia, 1998 to present

•   Lecturer, Appolo Summer School, Vilnius Lithuania July 2019

•   Lecturer, International Summer School on Lasers in Materials Science, Venice, July 2018

•   Co-organizer, Workshop on Laser Solutions for Orbital Space Debris, Université Paris Diderot (2015)

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