Jason Puth is a Research Engineer at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics. He currently serves as the acting Omega Facility Division Director. 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 the Target Viewing System 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 focused on seed lasers, pulse shaping, nonlinear optics, and amplifier technologies as well as the diagnostics to characterize the highly specialized pulses for OMEGA EP. With this background, Jason now oversees the operation and maintenance of OMEGA and OMEGA EP facilities with a focus on the project efforts to improve capabilities and efficiency. He also contributes to LLE as a Laser Safety Officer.
Jason received a BS Physics from Allegheny College in 1999 and a MS Optics from the University of Rochester in 2001.