Bruce Carlsten is a senior research and development engineer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
In 1985 Carlsten received his PhD from Stanford University following a BS from UCLA in 1979, then was a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
[1] He was the leader of the High-Power Electrodynamics group at LANL From 2005 to 2012.
In this role he oversaw this group's projects researching free-electron lasers, high-power and high-frequency microwave sources and effects, and accelerator components.
[2] then became the chief scientist for LANL's Navy-funded Free Electron Laser oscillator project[3] and is director of design at the Laboratory's future X-ray Free Electron Laser, the MaRIE (Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes) facility.