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SPHEREOPTICS USA

Rob Claflin, President
Rob has spent the last 12 years as a chief executive in the optics industry. He has broad worldwide experience translating customer needs into cost effective optical solutions. Rob has spent the last 25 years successfully managing various high growth small businesses. He is a graduate of Harvard and the Columbia Business School.
rclaflin@sphereoptics.com

Chris Durell, Vice President, Sales
Chris has seven years of experience providing customers with standard and custom optical measurement products and services. His specific expertise is in helping customers define lamp measurement and luminance/radiance standard configurations which will meet their specification at the most reasonable cost. Chris is responsible for SphereOptics national accounts, custom components and systems and Pacific Rim sales coordination. Chris holds his BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Franklin Pierce College.
cdurell@sphereoptics.com

Sid Rane, Eastern Regional Sales Manager
Sid joined Sphereoptics in 2008 as Eastern Regional Sales Manager.
Mr. Rane was formerly applications engineer for Luminus Devices in Woburn, MA. Sid holds Masters Degrees in Physics and Information Management from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, and a Masters Degree in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India.
srane@sphereoptics.com

Justin Jacobs, Midwest Regional Sales Manager
Mr. Jacobs joined SphereOptics in 2005 upon graduating from Bates College in Lewiston Maine with a BS in Physics and a minor in Applied Engineering. Justin held positions as Calibration Laboratory Manager and East Coast Sales Engineer with SphereOptics, and in 2008 was appointed Midwestern Regional Sales Manager. With a strong background in photonics and in SphereOptics products, Justin is ready to serve customers in the Mountain and Central regions of the US.
jjacobs@sphereoptics.com

Joan Beaulieu, Vice President, Marketing Communications
Joan is responsible for SphereOptics’ global marketing communication activities, which include advertising and promotion, public relations, web development and web portals, and overseeing trade exhibit activities. She has over 14 years experience in the photonics industry, serving as Director of Marketing Communications for a major electro-optics manufacturer.
jb@sphereoptics.com

Joe Jablonski, Vice President, Engineering
Joe has been working in the electro-optics industry for the past 20 years. He has worked in military contracting, medical and commercial environments during the course of his career. Joe has worked with applications ranging from the UV to the thermal IR. Joe has a BS degree in Physics and optics from the University of Lowell.
jjablonski@sphereoptics.com

Angelo Arecchi, Director Systems Engineering
Angelo has many years experience working in optics, with special interest in light sources and light measurement. He is a member of the OSA, SPIE and CORM, and is a Registered Professional Engineer. Angelo holds a BS in Engineering from the US Coast Guard Academy, an MS in Optics from the University of Rochester, and an MBA from Plymouth State University.
angelo@sphereoptics.com

Mike Bayer, Operations Manager
Mike joins SphereOptics from Imaging Automation Inc in Bedford New Hampshire He has spent the past nine years designing and developing various electro-mechanical products and manufacturing solutions for small to midsize companies. Mike holds a BS in Engineering Technology from the University of New Hampshire.
mbayer@sphereoptics.com

SPHEREOPTICS EUROPE

Dr. Wolfgang Böhme - GERMANY
Manager, SphereOptics GmbH
Wolfgang served for 15 years in various capacities at the Perkin Elmer factory in Germany. His most recent responsibility was as the product line manager for Perkin Elmer’s UV/VIS and UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometers. For the past seven years, Wolfgang has been responsible for the marketing of light measurement systems, instruments, and reflectance materials and standards in Central and Eastern Europe. Dr. Böhme received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University in Saarbrücken, Germany.
wboehme@sphereoptics.com

Nadine Cariou - FRANCE
Manager, SphereOptics , SARL
Nadine has spent over 20 years in the sale and support of optical test and measurement equipment in Europe. From 1984 until 1997, she was responsible for integrating sphere components and systems sales for the LOT –Oriel representative organization. Her last five years have been spent as the French Country Manager for a major supplier of optical systems. Nadine holds her degree in optical engineering from Ecole Supérieure d’Optique.
ncariou@sphereoptics.com

Christina Boehme
Product Specialists SphereOptics GmbH

Christina graduated in early 2006 from the Fachhochschule Mannheim, Germany and holds a Bachelor of Science Hrs. degree in Chemical and Process Engineering. In the SphereOptics team she is responsible for the Radiant Imaging® product sales and support in Germany and Eastern Europe. Christina’s bachelor thesis was on physical and optical properties of porous PTFE and she brings SphereOptics valuable knowledge in materials development. During her studies in foreign countries she developed excellent language skills in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
cboehme@sphereoptics.com


Alexandra Poisel - GERMANY
Office Manager, SphereOptics GmbH
Alexandra is a multilingual professional, who has worked in several companies for more than 10 years in order administration, export, customer service and marketing communications. She obtained her degree in foreign languages in Gengenbach/Black Forrest, Germany. info@sphereoptics.de

Fred Langenbeck
Technical Support Manager

Fred Langenbeck has extensive technical, field and customer service experience in the area of FT-IR spectroscopy. During his 13+ years in the USA, Fred worked for BRUKER Optics and is specialized in FT-IR/RAMAN spectrometers, microscopes, reflection/transmission accessories and validation and calibration services. At SphereOptics Fred’s responsibilities are technical service/support, sales, calibration and validation, and technical documentation.
flangenbeck@sphereoptics.com


Alexander Schwarz
Alexander Schwarz joined SphereOptics in Germany in September 2008. Lex is responsible for Import/Export handling, product development and office management.  His communication skills and open mind enriched the Team and help in serve our customers.
aschwarz@sphereoptics.com
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The lumen is the luminous flux emitted into a solid angle of 1 steradian from a source which has an intensity of 1 candela. In other words, 1 candela = 1 lumen/steradian.
The lumen is a weighted value of watts. The luminous flux of a source is calculated by integrating the product of the spectral flux (power per unit wavlength band) and the CIE V-lambda curve. The integrated value, or area under the curve represents the total lumens from this source.
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