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Paul Robert Tolley from Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search Paul Robert Tolley (born May 6, 1966 castle Donington England) is an engineer and inventor who advanced the development of single point diamond turning and polymer optics. He is a graduate of Clarkson University and Mitchell College. Tolley pioneered Diamond Turning of Polyethermide materials, known as High Refractive Diamond Turning (HRDT) for use in high accurancy, high temperature low weight environments.

Contents [hide] 1 HRDT High Refractive Diamond Turning 2 Tolley 3 Philanthropy 4 References 5 External links

HRDT: HRDT "High Refractive Diamond Turning"[1]is a single point diamond turning process for performing optical quality maching of lens surfaces in high refractive polmers. Tolley was award US Patent 7,413,689 B2 in August 2008 for discovery and development of novel diamond turning techniques.

Tolley began revolutionary advances in polymer processing techniquies to achieve 1/4 Newton fringe optics in molded plastics, specifically diffractive optics. replicating feature sizes as small as 2 microns. Though Tolley's greatest achievement was his work in utilizing advance polymer materials to push the bounds of application and market acceptance for plastic optics as presented in "pushing the Polymer envelope". Primarily in Bio-medical diagnostics, defense and surgical imaging, Tolley had the most successful impact on Bio-metric imaging optics primarily for handheld fingerprint identification devices.

Tolley has been an adamant crusader for US manufacturers and Global fair trade policy. In 2005 Tolley served as an advisor to the Bipartisan Senate Committee on manufacturing co-chaired by Hillary Clinton D-NY and Lindsey Graham R-SC. Tolley has long campaigned that though innovation is critical, it alone cannot maintain the critical advantage needed by the U.S. to retain our stature in global policy making and peacekeeping. He has continuously argued that unfair trade policy has lead to an irresponsible globalization practices and market volatility.

ReferencesEditBiography of at CNSE website

[1] US Patent 7,413,689 B2 [2] http://www.syntecoptics.com/downloads/hrdt-wp.pdf [3] Recognized by Frost and Sullivan for Innovation in Polymer Optics Sept 2008. — [4]"Polymer Optics Gain Respect" Article by Paul Tolley; reprinted from Photonics Spectra, October 2003 (PDF, 805 Kb) Lauren Publishing and SPIE.org [5] HRDT white paper by Paul Tolley; reprinted from SPIE 2005 Optics & Photonics Conference Proceedings, August 2005 (PDF, 681 Kb) SPIE.org [6] APOMA American precision optics manufacturers October 2001* [7] http://www.stcmems.com/management_team.html [8] http://cnse.albany.edu/AboutUs/Staff/ExecutiveStaff/PaulTolley.aspx