Page 3 - Robert Carman

Prior to his employment with Boeing, Dr. Carman spent a decade, from 1974 to 1984 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico as a special project leader and program manager. Before that, from 1970 to 1973, he was a group leader at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and in 1974, he was promoted to director of the laser fusion program. He also served as founder, chief executive officer and president of KDC Technology in Livermore, California, between 1982 and 1988.
Responsible for the development of transient spectroscopy, Dr. Carman developed and founded the field with fellow associate and former full professor and Nobel Prize winner Nicholas Bloembergen of Harvard University. He also discovered the underlying physics limiting the scale-up of solid-state lasers, generated the first terawatt sub picosecond pulse lasers and performed fundamental studies on self-focusing phenomena using them. He currently holds three patents and has three additional patents pending in his area of expertise.
Dr. Carman was a New York State Regents scholar, an Adelphi College general scholar, a National Science Foundation Fellow, and a Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellow. He started his higher education at Adelphi College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Physics in 1962. Afterward, he began working as a staff member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory in 1964, and in 1968, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from Harvard University. He also holds a programming management degree from West Coast University.
Throughout his career, Dr. Carman has been active with several industry related organizations, such as the American Physical Society and the National Management Association. He has also written extensively in his field, contributing articles to professional journals and chapters to books. In 1974, he was contributing author to a book entitled, “Heritage of Copernicus.” In the coming years, Dr. Carman plans to continue his work as a consultant and hopes to travel more.
Prior to his employment with Boeing, Dr. Carman spent a decade, from 1974 to 1984 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico as a special project leader and program manager. Before that, from 1970 to 1973, he was a group leader at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and in 1974, he was promoted to director of the laser fusion program. He also served as founder, chief executive officer and president of KDC Technology in Livermore, California, between 1982 and 1988.
Responsible for the development of transient spectroscopy, Dr. Carman developed and founded the field with fellow associate and former full professor and Nobel Prize winner Nicholas Bloembergen of Harvard University. He also discovered the underlying physics limiting the scale-up of solid-state lasers, generated the first terawatt sub picosecond pulse lasers and performed fundamental studies on self-focusing phenomena using them. He currently holds three patents and has three additional patents pending in his area of expertise.