Publications

Our publications:

Integration of optomechanical system models with DIRSIG
Keegan S. McCoy, John P. Kerekes, Scott D. Brown, Adam A. Goodenough, Rolando V. Raqueño, Jared D. Van Cor, Ryan G. Irvin

Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 10743, Optical Modeling and Performance Predictions X; 1074304 (2018)

(paper available here)

 

Novel designs for minimizing diffraction effects of large segmented mirror telescopes
James E. Harvey, James B. Breckinridge, Ryan G Irvin, Richard N. Pfisterer

Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 10745, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering XIX; 107450L (2018)

(paper available here)

 

Minimizing Stray Light in Everyday Optical Systems
Rich Pfisterer

Photonics Spectra, August 2018.

(article available here)

 

Optomechanical modeling of the optical telescope element and integrated science instrument module (OTIS) cryo-vacuum test for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Ryan Irvin, Scott O. Rohrbach, Lenward Seals, Dennis L. Skelton

Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 10698, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 1069806 (2018)

(paper available here)

 

Diffraction analysis of large segmented mirror concepts for exoplanet exploration
James E. Harvey, Ryan G. Irvin, Karlton Crabtree, Richard N. Pfisterer, James B. Breckinridge

Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 10698, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 106981Q (2018)

(paper available here)

 

Michelson Interferometer for Global High-Resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI): Instrument Design and Calibration
Christoph R. Englert, John M. Harlander,Charles M. Brown, Kenneth D. Marr, Ian J. Miller, J. Eloise Stump, Jed Hancock, James Q. Peterson, Jay Kumler, William H. Morrow, Thomas A. Mooney, Scott Ellis, Stephen B. Mende, Stewart E. Harris, Michael H. Stevens, Jonathan J. Makela, Brian J. Harding, Thomas J. Immel

Space Science Reviews, October 2017, Volume 212, Issue 1–2, pp 553–584.

(paper available here)

 

Stray light modeling of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM)
Scott O. Rohrbach, Ryan G. Irvin, Lenward T. Seals, Dennis L. Skelton

SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego, California, 2016.

(paper available from Proceedings Volume 9947, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering XVII)

 

Modeling Physical Optics Phenomena by Complex Raytracing
James E. Harvey, Ryan Irvin, Richard N. Pfisterer

One of the top ten most downloaded papers from the Journal, Optical Engineering, in the 2015 calendar year!
(Added note: Section 4.6 on scattered light characterization refers extensively to FRED.)

(paper available from SPIE)

 

Systems Modeling of Vehicular Cameras
Ryan Irvin, John Koshel, Bernhard Dauner

Proceedings of the International Light Simulation Symposium (ILISIS), 2012.

(paper available here)

 

Illumination System Design in a Project-Based Course
R. John Koshel, Vineeth Abraham, Joshua Kim, Ron Liu, Scott Richardson, Soha Namnabat, Amber Czajkowski, Rania H. Abd El-Maksoud, Ryan Irvin, Takeshi Nakazawa, Michael Kudenov, Martha Dawsey, Erich de Leon, Lirong Wang, Karlton Crabtree, R. Michael Orr, Brian Primeau, Yullin Kim

SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego, California

(paper available from Proceedings Volume 7423, Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration VI)

 

 

 

A sample of our customers’ publications related to FRED:

Design study of a laser-cooled infrared sensor
Hehlen, Markus Peter; Boncher, William Lawrence; Love, Steven Paul

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information

(article available here)

 

3D ray tracing model for laser beams influenced by thermal lensing in solid-state gain media
Phillip Lino Rall; Ramon Springer; Christoph Pflaum

SPIE Conference Proceeding, May 2018

(article available here)

 

Structural Absorption by Barbule Microstructures of Super Black Bird of Paradise Feathers
Dakota E. McCoy, Teresa Feo, Todd Alan Harvey, Richard O. Prum

Nature Communications, 2018

(article available here)

 

Optical Modeling of Reflectivity Loss Caused by Dust Deposition on CSP Mirrors and Restoration of Energy Yield by Electrodynamic Dust Removal
Jeremy Stark, Julius Yellowhair, John N. Hudelson, Mark Horenstein and Malay Mazumder

ASME 2014 8th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, Paper No. ES2014-6506

(article available here)

 

Immersion Graded Index Optics for Passive Solar Concentrators 
Nina Vaidya, Olav Solgaard
Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, California

(PDF currently available here)

 

Wearable Organic Optoelectronic Sensors for Medicine
Ashu K. Bansal, Shuoben Hou, Olena Kulyk, Eric M. Bowman, Ifor D. W. Samuel
University of St Andrews, Scotland

(article currently available here)

 

Mechanics and optics of stretchable elastomeric microlens array for artificial compound eye camera
Zengwei Li, Jianliang Xiao
University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado

(PDF currently available here)

 

Remote Optical Detection of Alpha Radiation
J. Sand, V. Hannuksela, S. Ihantola, K. Peräjärvi, H. Toivonen, and J. Toivonen
Tampere University of Technology, Optics Laboratory, Tampere, Finland
STUK – Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Helsinki, Finland

(PDF currently available here)

 

Image Analysis for the Automated Alignment of the Advanced Radiography Capability (ARC) Diagnostic Path
Randy Roberts , Abdul Awwal, Richard Leach, Michael Rushford, Erlan Bliss and Karl Wilhelmsen,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA

(pdf currently available here)

 

Recent Progress in Wide-Field Imaging Interferometry
S. A. Rinehart , D. T. Leisawitz, M. R. Bolcar, K. M. Chaprnka, R. G. Lyon, S. F. Maher, N.
Memarsadeghi, E. J. Sinukoff, E. Teichmand
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD
Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt MD
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
University of Maryland, College Park, MD

(PDF currently available here)

 

System Modeling of kJ-class Petawatt Lasers at LLNL
M. Y. Shverdin, M. Rushford, M. A. Henesian, C. Boley, C. Haefner, J. E. Heebner, J. K. Crane, C. W. Siders, C.P. Barty
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA

(PDF currently available here)

 

Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) -9.2m Design Study
(PDF currently available here)

 

DLR VR-SCAN: A Versatile and Robust Miniaturized Laser Scanner for short range 3D-Modelling and Exploration in Robotics
Simon Kielhofer, Thomas Bahls, Franz Hacker, Tilo Wusthoff and Michael Suppa

(PDF currently available here)

 

Fabrication and characterization of linear diffusers based on concave micro lens arrays
Roland Bitterli, Toralf Scharf, Hans-Peter Herzig, Wilfried Noell, Nico de Rooij, Andreas Bich, Sylvain Roth, Kenneth J. Weible, Reinhard Voelkel, Maik Zimmermann, and Michael Schmidt
Ecole Politechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Ecole Politechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
SUSS MicroOptics SA, Jaquet-Droz 7, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Bayerisches Laserzentrum GmbH, Erlangen, Germany

(PDF currently available here)

 

Calibration Services for Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY) Operations
Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2010 (October 1, 2009 to September 30, 2010)
C. Johnson, NIST

(PDF currently available here)

 

Optical characteristics of low concentration ratio solar collectors for façade applications
M Piratheepan and T N Anderson
Auckland University of Technology Auckland, New Zealand

(pdf currently available here)

 

Design and Validation of a Low-cost High-flux Solar Simulator using Fresnel Lens Concentrators
W Wang, L Aichmayer, B Laumert, T Fransson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

(PDF currently available here)

 

Modulated-alignment dual-axis (MAD) confocal microscopy for deep optical sectioning in tissues
Steven Y. Leigh, Ye Chen, and Jonathan T.C. Liu
Stony Brook University (SUNY), Department of Biomedical Engineering, USA

(PDF currently available here)

 

Novel Focusing Optics for IR Lasers
Gary Herrit, Alan Hedges, Herman Reedy
II-VI Incorporated
Saxonburg, PA, USA

(PDF currently available here)

 

Photon Detection System for Collinear Laser Spectroscopy Experiments at NSCL
Schneider, A.; Minamisono, K.; Mantica, P. F.; Klose, A.; Johnson, B.
NSCL/Michigan State University

(article available from APS)

 

Stray light testing of the OLI Telescope
Frank Grochocki, John Fleming
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., USA

(paper available from SPIE)

 

Cryogenic metrology for the James Webb Space Telescope Integrated Science Instrument Module alignment target fixtures using laser radar through a chamber window
T. Hadjimichael ; D. Kubalak ; A. Slotwinski ; P. Davila ; B. Eegholm ; W. Eichhorn ; J. Hayden ; E. Mentzell ; R. Ohl ; G. Scharfstein ; R. Telfer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA)
Nikon Metrology, Inc. (USA)
Sigma Space Corp. (USA)
Flexure Engineering, LLC (USA)
Orbital Sciences Corp. (USA)

(paper available from SPIE)

 

Polarization and stray light considerations for the Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer (PRISM)
B. Van Gorp ; P. Mouroulis ; D. Wilson ; K. Balasubramanian
Jet Propulsion Lab. (USA)

(paper available from SPIE)

 

Developing wide-field spatio-spectral interferometry for far-infrared space applications
David Leisawitz ; Matthew R. Bolcar ; Richard G. Lyon ; Stephen F. Maher ; Nargess Memarsadeghi ; Stephen A. Rinehart ; Evan J. Sinukoff
NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (United States)

(paper available from SPIE)

 

The LSST camera instrument model
D. Kirk K. Gilmore ; Steven Kahn ; Pat Hascall ; John Ku ; Paul O’Connor ; Andrew Rasmussen ; Vincent Riot ; Jack Singal
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., United States
Brookhaven National Lab., United States
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., United States

(paper available from SPIE)

 

Mathematical analysis of the static solar concentrator with cascading right-angle prisms
Allen Jong-Woei Whang, Yi-Lung Lai, Shu-Hua Yang, Chiung-Hui Lai, Huai-Yi Chen, Yi-Yung Chen & Shi-Chi Chen

(paper available from WIT eLibrary)

 

Physical Optics Modeling of the Interferometric Radius Measurement
Kate M. Medicus and Angela Davies
University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA

(paper available from OSA)

 

Grating-over-lens concentrating photovoltaic spectrum splitting systems with volume holographic optical elements
Juan M. Russo, Deming Zhang, Michael Gordon, Shelby D. Vorndran, Youchen Wu, Raymond K. Kostuk
The Univ. of Arizona, USA

(paper available from SPIE)

 

Modeling EUVL illumination systems
Daniel G. Smith
Nikon Research Corp. of America (USA)

(paper available from SPIE)

 

A multi-directional backlight for a wide-angle, glasses-free three-dimensional display
David Fattal, Zhen Peng, Tho Tran, Sonny Vo, Marco Fiorentino, Jim Brug, Raymond G. Beausoleil
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, (USA)

(paper available from Nature)

 

Algorithm for irradiance tailoring using multiple freeform optical surfaces
Axel Bäuerle, Adrien Bruneton, Rolf Wester, Jochen Stollenwerk, and Peter Loosen
Chair for the Technology of Optical Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT, Aachen, Germany

(paper available from OSA)

 

Temperature-controlled optical stimulation of the rat prostate cavernous nerves
Serhat Tozburun ; Thomas C. Hutchens ; Michael A. McClain ; Gwen A. Lagoda ; Arthur L. Burnett ; Nathaniel M. Fried
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Department of Urology, Baltimore, Maryland

(paper available from SPIE)

 

Endoscopic geometry inspection by modular fiber optic sensors with increased depth of focus
Christoph Ohrt ; Markus Kästner ; Eduard Reithmeier
Leibniz Univ. Hannover (Germany)

(paper available from SPIE)

 

High-sensitivity, real-time, ratiometric imaging of surface-enhanced Raman scattering nanoparticles with a clinically translatable Raman endoscope device
Ellis Garai ; Steven Sensarn ; Cristina L. Zavaleta ; Dominique Van de Sompel ; Nathan O. Loewke ; Michael J. Mandella ; Sanjiv S. Gambhir ; Christopher H. Contag
Stanford University, Stanford, California

(article available online here)

 

Integral image rendering procedure for aberration correction and size measurement
Holger Sommer, Andreas Ihrig, Melanie Ebenau, Dirk Flühs, Bernhard Spaan, and Marion Eichmann
Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Universitätsklinikum Essen, Essen, Germany

(paper available from OSA)

 

HyTES: Thermal imaging spectrometer development
Johnson, W.R. ; Hook, S.J. ; Mouroulis, P. ; Wilson, D.W.
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

(paper available from IEEE)

 

Sensor modeling and demonstration of a multi-object spectrometer for performance-driven sensing
John P. Kerekes, Michael D. Presnar, Kenneth D. Fourspring, Zoran Ninkov, David R. Pogorzala, Alan D. Raisanen, Andrew C. Rice, Juan R. Vasquez, Jeffrey P. Patel, Robert T. MacIntyre, Scott D. Brown
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Numerica Corp., USA

(paper available from SPIE)

 

Optical architecture design for detection of absorbers embedded in visceral fat
Robert Francis, James Florence, and Duncan MacFarlane
Raytheon EO Innovations, Richardson, USA
University of Texas Dallas, Richardson, USA

(paper available from OSA)

 

Correction of autofluorescence intensity for epithelial scattering by optical coherence tomography: a phantom study
H. Pahlevaninezhad ; A. M. D. Lee ; C. Hyun ; S. Lam ; C. MacAulay ; P. M. Lane
The BC Cancer Agency (Canada)

(paper available from SPIE)

 

Improving optical contact for functional near-infrared brain spectroscopy and imaging with brush optodes
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
MRRA Inc., Euless, Texas
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas, Texas
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas

(paper available online here)

 

Experimental and theoretical design of a near-field LIDAR telescope
Division of Combustion Physics, Lund University
Bachelors Thesis, Linus Frantzich

(paper available online here)