Chris Bowley, Principal at Fish & Richardson

Today, my guest is Chris Bowley, a Principal at Fish & Richardson who has substantial experience in a variety of optical technologies, including imaging systems, illumination systems, displays (e.g., LCDs, projection displays, and microdisplays), interferometry (e.g., distance measuring interferometry and surface profiling interferometry), optical communications, optical waveguides, liquid crystal devices, lasers (e.g., semiconductor lasers, fiber lasers, and gas lasers), electro-optic devices (e.g., LEDs), optical materials, optical components (e.g., retardation films, polarizers, and diffractive optics).

Other technologies include semiconductor fabrication, semiconductor metrology, chemical vapor deposition, chemical fluid deposition, MEMS devices, ink jet printing, microfluidics, electrophoretics, superconductors, and nanotechnology. Prior to joining Fish, Chris was a senior research physicist developing liquid crystal polymer technology for optical film applications in the optical systems division of 3M Co. As a graduate research assistant while attending Brown University, he conducted research in the areas of fabrication, electro-optic, mechanical, and microscopic characterization, and numerical simulation of numerous liquid crystal and polymer composite devices. Chris holds a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, and Ph.D. / MS in Physics from Brown University.