Dr F J Duarte is a laser physicist based in Western New York, USA. He is the author/editor of 14 scholarly books including Dye Laser Principles, High-Power Dye Lasers, Tunable Laser Applications, and Tunable Lasers Handbook. He is sole author of Tunable Laser Optics, Quantum Optics for Engineers, and Fundamentals of Quantum Entanglement. He has received the Engineering Excellence Award (1995), 'for the invention of the N-slit laser interferometer,' and the David Richardson Medal (2016) 'for seminal contributions to the physics and technology of multiple-prism arrays for narrow-linewidth tunable laser oscillators and laser pulse compression' from the Optical Society.

Dr T S Taylor is Principal Scientist at the Quantum Entanglement and Space Technologies Laboratory, US Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Huntsville, Alabama. He is the author and co-author of numerous refereed publications and US patents. Dr Taylor is also the author of two scholarly books: Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering and Introduction to Laser Science and Engineering.