Jason Puth is the Omega Operations Division Director at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics. His career at LLE began in 2000 while he was completing a master’s degree at the University of Rochester with a design project to replace Target Viewing System cameras on OMEGA to achieve higher resolution and greater precision. Following that assignment, Jason was selected to manage the engineering and implementation of the OMEGA EP Sources subsystem in 2001. This effort included work on seed lasers, pulse shaping, nonlinear optics, and amplifier technologies as well as the diagnostics to characterize the highly specialized pulses for OMEGA EP. Following this work, Jason served as OMEGA and OMEGA EP Frontend Laser Systems Group Leader. In 2011, he was selected as the Operations Manager for both the OMEGA and OMEGA EP Facilities. With this background, Jason now oversees the Operations Division including the OMEGA, OMEGA EP, and Cryogenic & Tritium Facilities. He also contributes to LLE as a Laser Safety Officer.
Jason received a BS in physics from Allegheny College in 1999 and a MS in optics from the University of Rochester in 2001.
