Lynda Elizabeth Busse is an American physicist specializing in the development, properties, and applications of optical glass, especially chalcogenide glass for transmission of infrared light over fiber optics. She is a research physicist in the Optical Materials and Devices Branch of the United States Naval Research Laboratory.
Busse completed a Ph.D. in physics in 1983, at the University of Chicago, under the supervision of Sidney R. Nagel. She joined the Naval Research Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher, and continued there as a permanent staff researcher beginning in 1986.
She was elected as a Fellow of SPIE in 2024.