Robert P. Breault

Robert P. Breault received his BS from Yale University, USA, and his PhD in optics from the University of Arizona, USA. He is chairman and founder of Breault Research Organization and chairman of the Arizona Optics Cluster. He has participated in regional, national and global economic development in 38 countries and has helped to create dozens of optics clusters. He has served on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Committee to advise the department on export regulations.

Breault is a pioneer in the field of computerized stray-light analysis. He founded Breault Research Organization, an optical-engineering software development and consulting company, in 1979. He participated in the stray-light analysis for the Hubble Telescope, IRAS, DIRBE, IBSS, ISO, Galileo, Cassini, MERIS, CRISTI and XMM space missions and for many military optical sensors. Breault was instrumental in the fabrication of different devices to measure the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) of surfaces.

Breault is a Fellow and Senior Member of Optica. He received the 2014 Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award “for pioneering leadership in the formation of global optics industry clusters.”