Stahl Named Optical Fellow

Dr H. Philip Stahl, a former Newtown resident, has been selected as a fellow in the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Dr Stahl is a senior optical physicist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

SPIE is an international technical society for engineering and scientific applications of technologies related to optics, imaging, and photonics, the electronic technology behind optical devices such as lasers or video cameras.

Fellows, distinguished individuals who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in these areas, are recognized for their service to the general optics community and SPIE.

Dr Stahl earned his doctorate in optical sciences from the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center in Tucson. He is the Next Generation Space Telescope Mirror technology lead, the Next Generation Space Telescope Center lead, and the Optical Technologies group lead at Marshall’s Space Optics Manufacturing and Technology Center. The Next Generation Space Telescope is being developed as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Dr Stahl is a leading authority in optical engineering, the science of precise measurement known as optical metrology, and phase-measuring interferometry, a highly accurate method for measuring the shape of an optical wavefront or surface.