After his publication in Optics Express, Imagine Optics interviewed Niko Romer about the method he proposes for aligning optical systems.
Niko (left) in the Institute of Optics lab at the University of Rochester and Jerôme Ballesta, optical metrology and adaptive optics sales expert.
With a BS in Astronautical engineering, Niko Romer joined the group of Jannick Rolland in 2021 as a PhD student in optics. Niko is a true passionate of space technologies and has been involved in several projects in collaboration with NASA, Planet or Honeybee Robotics (now part of Blue Origin). He has already published several papers among which: ‘Alignment of a Ritchey-Chrétien telescope with primary mirror figure error guided by the rapid measurement of binodal astigmatism’, Optics Express Vol. 32, Issue 27, pp. 48525-48540 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.541050.