Bernardo Farfan joined Vista Photonics in June 2011 as a Research Engineer. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Military Engineering School in Bolivia and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico.
Bernardo has participated in various research and development work with his experience in electronic systems integration, data acquisition systems, electronic embedded systems, programming and implementation of numerical algorithms. Bernardo has implemented data processing and control algorithms in microcontroller based systems, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). He also has experience in design and implementation of photovoltaic solar-energy systems for small scale energy demands such as electronic devices and instrumentation.
While at Vista Photonics, Bernardo has contributed to multiple research and development projects on
laser based optical sensor design for trace gas measurements. He has been closely participating
in the integration of gas detection instruments using photoacoustic and photodetection-based
methods involving different types of laser diodes: vertical cavity surface emitting
lasers (VCSEL), distributed feedback (DFB) lasers, and quantum cascade lasers (QCL).
