NASA Postdoctoral Program: Technology Development - Laser Transceivers and Electro-Optic Components

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology. This specific opportunity focuses on the Laser and Electro-Optics Branch at Goddard Space Flight Center, which provides expertise, facilities, and infrastructure to develop Goddard science instrument and spacecraft system hardware. The Branch is a world leader in the development, fabrication and qualification of space flight lasers, with facilities including clean rooms designed for developing space flight lasers with state-of-the-art optical instrumentation. The Branch has strong technology interest in the development of solid-state, fiber, and diode lasers, optical parametric oscillators, Fabry-Perot etalons, time-resolved single-photon detectors, diode and laser system testing and qualification, nonlinear harmonic generation, LIght Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) and spectrometer instruments, and free space optical communication systems.