David R. Jenkins
Director, R&D, Optics
Dave Jenkins’ product and system design experience includes novel illumination systems in automotive exterior lighting, street lighting, medical lighting, architectural lighting, avionics, display systems, projection systems, machine vision, scanners, R&D instrumentation, entertainment lighting, LED packages and light engines. He often employs innovative modeling and optimization techniques, algorithms, mapping strategies, and geometry parameterizations. Dave has developed numerous metrology systems to aid in characterizing optical materials, light sources, LEDs, and illumination products focusing most recently on electrical-thermal-optical characterization of LEDs for color mixed systems and characterization of phosphors and optical materials exhibiting volumetric scattering.