Bruce Anderson, PhD

Bruce R. Anderson is a physicist and defense technology engineer at Harris Corporation who earned his doctorate for research on free-electron lasers. Anderson earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard University and completed his doctorate in engineering and applied science at the University of California, Davis/Livermore program, where his dissertation presented an experimental analysis of waveguide modes in a high-gain free-electron laser amplifier. Free-electron lasers — which produce coherent light by passing relativistic electron beams through periodic magnetic fields — were an active area of research for both scientific and defense applications during the period of his graduate work. He went on to a career as a principal physicist at Harris Corporation, a defense electronics and communications technology company.