Dr. Edward Watson is Fellow of the Optical Society of America

Dr Edward Watson is elevated to the rank of fellow in the Optical Society of America (OSA). Dr. Watson is a principal scientist at AFRL and serves on the board of Directors of OSA and he already recognized by SPIE and AFRL as fellow.

Dr Watson is a visiting faculty in the Electro-Optics Program and serves as an Air Force liaison to the Ladar and Optical Communications Institute (LOCI). He conducts research in active and passive electro-optic sensors, including the application of dynamic diffractive optical components to the agile steering and shaping of monochromatic and polychromatic light beams, development of multi-phenomenology laser radar imagers, and modeling of aliasing and blurring in sampled imagery. He has a Ph. D. in Optics from the University of Rochester, and an M. S. degree in Optical Sciences and a B. S. degree in Physics from the University of Arizona.