About Laser PI

Over 10 years ago, I was fortunate enough to perform some of the first laser shock experiments at the MEC facility at LCLS, in Stanford, California. At the time, our team hacked together a basic spreadsheet template to track our laser parameters for each shot (with a repetition rate of 1 shot every 10-15 minutes).

Today, teams still rely on a very basic spreadsheet template to track experiments where laser shots can be taken every few seconds (or faster!). Mistakes happen.

I setup Laser PI to modernize the laser logbook, making it easy to record, search, and analyze laser experiment data in real-time and gather insights into how the experiment is progressing; helping scientists to "save time, reduce mistakes, and make better decisions".