Research Officer, Optical Diagnostics

NRC Industrial Materials Institute
75 de Mortagne Boulevard
Boucherville, Quebec J4B 6Y4

Phone: 450-641-5118, Fax: 450-641-5106
Email: Marc.Dufour@imi.cnrc-nrc.gc.ca

Academic Qualifications B.Sc.A., Electrical Engineering, École polytechnique de Montréal,1977, M.Ing., Electrical Engineering, École polytechnique de Montréal,1980

Spoken Languages French, English

Expertise

• Development of rugged and reliable optical instrumentation for on-line materials inspection and process control in hostile industrial environments.
• Elaboration of new optical configurations for meeting application requirements such as dealing with specific material surface characteristics and performing fast measurements.
• Analysis of complete solutions for finding the right compromises between the optical configuration complexity and the signal processing computer power requirements.

Publications and Patents

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Keywords

• On-line inspection
• Optical instrumentation
• Process control

Subjects

• Process control
• Optical instruments