| 2008-Present |
Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Optical Research Associates |
| 2000-2008 |
Founder and Chairman, Optical Research Associates |
| 1991-2000 |
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Optical Research Associates |
| 1963-1991 |
President, Optical Research Associates |
| 1960-1963 |
Senior Research Mathematician, Bell and Howell Research Center |
| 1959-1960 |
Chief Optical Designer, Bell and Howell Company |
| 1958-1959 |
Senior Optical Designer, Bell and Howell Company |
| 1953-1958 |
Optical Designer, Bell and Howell Company |
Mr. Harris, founder of Optical Research Associates (ORA®) in 1963, has served as the senior officer of the company since that time, and specifically as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since 1991, and Chairman since 2000. He has provided expert financial management and corporate development significantly during recent years, guiding ORA to leadership in the optics industry, both as the world's largest independent optical engineering services organization and as the developer of the world's leading optical design software package. |
| Mr. Harris continues to have a strong interest in technical developments, as a scientist and engineer. His technical achievements in optical systems design include photographic objectives for high acuity applications, fire control, instrumentation and remote TV systems. Other designs have applied to illumination systems (solar simulators, illuminators for lithography, and condensers for projection systems), special systems employing unusual surface shapes, e.g. aspherics in aerial reconnaissance systems, cylindrical surfaces in anamorphic systems, oscillographic recording instruments and prisms. He has addressed design problems associated with UV and IR and systems requiring precision correction of secondary chromatic effects over broad wavelength bands, e.g. long focal length, ultra wide angle and zoom lenses. |
| For over 35 years he has done research and development in automatic optical design methods leading to optimization techniques currently employed in ORA's CODE V® optical software. His activities have also included development of solids modeling capability, and improvements in structure and documentation for CODE V. He has contributed to global optimization techniques, diffraction based image evaluation programs for both centered and decentered optical systems, tolerancing methods, environmental and narcissus calculations, color graphic displays of aberration and surface maps, superior modeling of partial dispersions of optical glasses, and the numerical analysis embodied in other sections of CODE V. His current contributions are directed toward embedding lens design expertise and advice to the user in the program. |
| "A Practical Strategy for Global Optimization of Zoom Lenses," (with T. Kuper), Presented at the International Optical Design Conference, Kona, HI, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 3482, 1998. |
| "Developing a Medium Size High Technology Company," Presented at the OSSC, April 3, 1996. |
| "How Effective Can Global Optimization Be for Lens Design?" (with T. Kuper), Presented at the OSA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, 1995. |
| "Practical Lens Design Using a Global Method," (with T. Kuper and R. Hilbert), Presented at the Optical Symposium of the Optical Society of Japan, Japan Society of Applied Physics, Tokyo, Japan, June 8, 1993. |
| "Global Optimization for Lens Design—An Emerging Technology," (with T. Kuper), Invited Paper, Presented at the International Symposium on Optical Systems Design, Berlin, Germany, 1992. |
| "Photonics Design: A New Look at Global Optimization for Optical Design," (with T. Kuper), Photonics Spectra, Vol. 26, 1992, p. 151. |
| "Overview of CODE V Development," SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 1354, 1991, p. 104. |
| Principal author/editor of "CODE V Reference Manual" and "CODE V Prompting Guide," Optical Research Associates, 1985 to present. |
| "New Developments in CODE V Optimization," SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 237, 1980, p.11. |
| "The Use of Dedicated Computers in Optical Design, CODE V," Invited Paper, Presented at the OSA International Lens Design Conference, Haverford, PA, June 1975. |
| "Optical Design of an Imaging Spectral Radiometer for Earth Resources Applications," (with H. D. Wolpert and F. S. Reynard), SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 27, 1971, p. 117. |
| "Evolution of a Spectroradiometer," Paper presented at the OSA Lens Design Technical Group, Ottawa, Canada, October 1971. |
| "Application of Variable Optics to Solar Simulation Systems for Generation of High Intensity Light Beams," (with M. Wilson), Paper presented at AIAA/ASTM/IES 4th Space Simulation Conference, Los Angeles, CA, September 1969. |
| "Automatic Design—Facts and Fallacies," Paper presented at University of Rochester Lens Design Conference, July 1966. |
| "Modulation Transfer Functions of Unusual Aperture Shapes," (with D. Gustafson), Paper presented at Washington OSA Meeting, March 1966. |
| "Conjugate Direction Methods in Automatic Design," Paper presented at Pittsburgh OSA Meeting, March 1961. |
| "Scientific Design Procedures Utilizing a Small Computer," Invited Paper, Armour Research Foundation, Computer Applications Symposium, 1959. |
| "Use of Aspheric Corrector Plates for Improvement of Simple Lens Systems," M.S. Thesis, University of Rochester, 1958. |
