Russell Rauch is an Independent Electro-Optic Professional since his retirement from Xerox Corporation in 2011. He is currently in third term as OSSC Membership Chair, served as OSSC Councilor for two terms,and served as OSSC Program Chair during the covid pandemic, providing an online program, when OSSC could not meet in person. Recently Russell was a volunteer consultant to a Midwestern university medical ophthalmology group for several months.
Russell was an engineer at Xerox in southern California for 33 years and received 13 US patents. He was a Product Development Engineer from 1993-2011 where he developed engineering test system designs and Implementation for multi-beam laser raster output scanner prototypes (beam size & separation, power uniformity). During this time Russell received two patents that were implemented in the four laser scanners for the Xerox iGen3 production printer, which was then the top-of-the-line Xerox laser color printer. These patents solved color registration overlay for the images from multiple laser scanners in the system. This work also included solving scanner production problems.
He also developed laser diode parameter test stations (DC, Far Field, and Modulation). These test stations were used for production problem solving and comparative evaluation of laser vendors. Negotiated with vendor engineers/managers for improved diode performance.
From 1978-1993 Russell was a Process Development Engineer at Xerox, developing processes for fabricating acousto-optic and electro-optic modulators: thin film deposition of metals and dielectrics, photolithography, etching, liftoff, grinding and polishing of transducers, dicing of crystals. Transfer of process to production, problem solving for manufacturing line. Cost reduction engineering.
Prior to Xerox Russell was employed at Northop Corporate labs, evaluating radiation damage in bulk semiconductors and developing thin film multi-level interconnects for hybrid microcircuits at Hughes Aircraft Company.
Russell received a BA in Physics from New York University and an MS in Solid State (aka Condensed Matter) Physics from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC).