{"id":234,"date":"2018-08-07T10:43:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T14:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=234"},"modified":"2019-02-21T12:45:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:45:23","slug":"thomas-bifano","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/profiles\/thomas-bifano\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Bifano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research Interests:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Deformable Mirrors, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Adaptive Optics,\u00a0Biphotonic Microscopy, Astronomical Telescope Instrumentation, Laser Wavefront Control<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/tgb\">http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/tgb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Thomas Bifano is the Director of the Boston University Photonics Center and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He has been a Professor at Boston University since 1988. Dr. Bifano\u2019s research focuses on modeling, design, production, and use of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) in optical applications. He is a founder and CTO of Boston Micromachines Corporation in Cambridge, MA, a leading producer of deformable mirrors for applications in astronomy, bio-imaging, and defense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9387,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/234\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}