AVENDAÑO ALEJO, MAXIMINO

I received my Ph. D. in Optics in September of 2002 from the CIO in Mexico, working with the distinguish professor Orestes Stavroudis. My main field of study was to provide formulas for the ray tracing in uniaxial crystals based in the Huygens’s Principle. Additionally, considering those formulas for ray tracing in birefringent media, made possible several contributions in the field of uniaxial crystals. Subsequently as a result of my Postdoctoral Fellowship within the Optics and Microwaves Department at Centro de Ciencias Aplicadas y DEsarrollo Tecnológico de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (CCADET-UNAM) in May 2006, and later as an Associated Researcher, we have developed a quantitative test for off-axis parabolic mirrors based in the null screens method. Since May 2010, I have been a full professor and I have established a new laboratory for testing single optical components associated within Optical Metrology Group. My principal accomplishments research has been finding better ways to describe the propagation of wavefronts and the formation of caustic surfaces through arbitrary systems, providing analytical formulas to either reduce or increase the amount of spherical aberration, with potential applications to properly design single lenses without spherical aberration, diffusers of light, concentrators or collimators for solar cells. Recently, we have implemented a method to design Hartmann type null screens for testing either qualitatively or quantitatively fast aspheric lenses placing a CCD sensor inside the caustic surface. I am active in promoting several topics in the field of Optics in particular Geometrical and Physical Optics in México, teaching at Faculty of Sciences and Faculty of Engineering of UNAM since 2006. Additionally, I have been a regular reviewer of several journals such as JOSA-A, Appl. Opt., Opt. Exp., Opt. Lett., Am. J. of Phys., Opt. Comm., Proc. A Royal Soc., Journal of Modern Optics, Journal of Optics and Review of Scientific Instruments since 2007. Actually, I am a full time researcher working at Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnología ICAT-UNAM (Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology - National Autonomous University from Mexico). Finally, I became a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America in May 2017 and subsequently I received the 2018 OSA Outstanding Reviewer Recognition from the Optical Society.