David L. Shealy

Authors Dickey, Shealy, Romero, Holswade, and Weichman sailing off the coast of San Diego on August 1, 2000.

My Recent Presentations

Invited Talks

“Analytic design of laser beam shaping optics,” David L Shealy and John A. Hoffnagle, General Optical Design and Instrumentation I, Frontiers in Optics 2007, 18 September, 2007, San Jose.

“Geometrical optics: some applications of the law of intensity,” David L Shealy, Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization IX Conference at SPIE Optics & Photonics Symposia, August 13-17, 2006, San Diego.

“Optical design of laser beam shaping systems,” David L. Shealy, International Optical Design Conference, Paper No. IWA2, Tucson, June 5, 2002.

Contributed Talks

"Review: design and analysis of plano-aspheric laser beam shaper," David L. Shealy and John A. Hoffnagle, Laser Beam Shaping XIII Conference, paper 8420- 02, SPIE Optics & Photonics Symposia, San Diego, August 13, 2012.
"Optical and Mechanical Tolerances for a two lens plano-apheric laser beam shaper," John A. Hoffnagle and David L. Shealy, Laser Beam Shaping XIII Conference, paper 8420- 03, SPIE Optics & Photonics Symposia, San Diego, August 13, 2012.
"Extending Stavroudis's Solution of the eikonal equation to multi-element optical systems," John A. Hoffnagle and David L. Shealy, Frontiers in Optics Conference 2009– OSA's 93rd Annual Meeting, San Jose, October 11-15, 2009.
"Wavefront generated by reflection of a plane wave from a conic section," John A. Hoffnagle and David L. Shealy, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering IX, 7060, SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, San Diego, August 2008.
“Wavefront and caustic surfaces of refractive laser beam shaper,” David L Shealy and John A. Hoffnagle, Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization X Conference, paper no. 6668-05, SPIE Optics & Photonics Symposia, San Diego, 28-29 August, 2007.
“Irradiance distributions within refractive laser beam shapers,” John A. Hoffnagle, Laser Beam Shaping VIII Conference, paper 6663-03, SPIE Optics & Photonics Symposia, San Diego, 28-29 August, 2007.
“Analytical beam shaping for flattened output irradiance profile,” David L Shealy, John A. Hoffnagle and Karl-Heinz Brenner, Laser Beam Shaping VII Conference, 6290, SPIE Optics & Photonics Symposia, San Diego, 13 - 14 August, 2006.
“Beam shaping profiles and propagation,” David L Shealy and John A Hoffnagle, Laser Beam Shaping VI Conference, 5876, SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, San Diego, August 2005.
“Effects of dispersion on the performance of a refractive beam shaper,” John A Hoffnagle and David L. Shealy, Laser Beam Shaping VI Conference, 5876, SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, San Diego, August 2005.

Contributed Talks

"Review: design and analysis of plano-aspheric laser beam shaper," David L. Shealy and John A. Hoffnagle, Laser Beam Shaping XIII Conference, paper 8420- 02, SPIE Optics & Photonics Symposia, San Diego, August 13, 2012.

"Optical and Mechanical Tolerances for a two lens plano-apheric laser beam shaper," John A. Hoffnagle and David L. Shealy, Laser Beam Shaping XIII Conference, paper 8420- 03, SPIE Optics & Photonics Symposia, San Diego, August 13, 2012.

"Extending Stavroudis's Solution of the eikonal equation to multi-element optical systems," John A. Hoffnagle and David L. Shealy, Frontiers in Optics Conference 2009– OSA's 93rd Annual Meeting, San Jose, October 11-15, 2009.

"Wavefront generated by reflection of a plane wave from a conic section," John A. Hoffnagle and David L. Shealy, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering IX, 7060, SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, San Diego, August 2008.

“Wavefront and caustic surfaces of refractive laser beam shaper,” David L Shealy and John A. Hoffnagle, Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization X Conference, paper no. 6668-05, SPIE Optics & Photonics Symposia, San Diego, 28-29 August, 2007.

“Irradiance distributions within refractive laser beam shapers,” John A. Hoffnagle, Laser Beam Shaping VIII Conference, paper 6663-03, SPIE Optics & Photonics Symposia, San Diego, 28-29 August, 2007.

“Analytical beam shaping for flattened output irradiance profile,” David L Shealy, John A. Hoffnagle and Karl-Heinz Brenner, Laser Beam Shaping VII Conference, 6290, SPIE Optics & Photonics Symposia, San Diego, 13 - 14 August, 2006.

“Beam shaping profiles and propagation,” David L Shealy and John A Hoffnagle, Laser Beam Shaping VI Conference, 5876, SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, San Diego, August 2005.

“Effects of dispersion on the performance of a refractive beam shaper,” John A Hoffnagle and David L. Shealy, Laser Beam Shaping VI Conference, 5876, SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, San Diego, August 2005.