Bart Johnson was born in 1956 and raised in Edina, Minnesota. He holds a B.E.E. from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. from MIT in electrical engineering. He has held engineering positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and McDonnell Douglas/Boeing. Since 2000 he has been employed as an electro-optics engineer at Boston-area startups CoreTek (tunable VCSELs), Azna (chirp managed lasers for telecom) and Axsun Technologies. His current position is Director of Electro-Optics Systems Engineering at Axsun involving laser-based near infrared spectroscopy and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). In OCT, he contributes to electro-optical systems design and testing as well as theoretical modeling of swept laser sources.
Bart and his wife, Jeanne Hladky, live in North Andover, Massachusetts. They have two children, Kailey and Owen.
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Bart can be reached at Bart@CantBeTrusted.org.