Synopses of technical reports in Optomechanics

Provided by students in 521 Fall, 2009

Paper Summary and Evaluation, prepared by students
Design of quasi-kinematic couplings (Culpepper, M.) Synopsis by Masaki Hoda

Improving the Sensitivity of Astronomical Curvature Wavefront Sensor Using Dual-Stroke Curvature (Guyon, O. et al)

Synopsis by Mala Mateen

Environments stressful to optical materials in low earth orbit (Musikant, S. and Malloy, W.J.)

Synopsis by Anoopoma P. Bhowmik
Design and fabrication of high performance relay lenses(Westort, K.) Synopsis by Yu-Hsiang Lai

Specifying glass and plastic optics – what’s the difference? (Lytle, J.D.)

Synopsis by Corrie Vandervlugt

Phase-shifting birefringent scatterplate interferometer (North-Morris, M. et al.)

Synopsis by Jun Zhang

Lens Mounting Techniques (Yoder, P.)

Synopsis by Ezra Milby

Reduction of flight hardware outgassing after integration under a less stringent requirement (Hughes, D. et al)

Synopsis by Eduardo Bendek
Fabrication of Infrared Optics (Parks, R.) Synopsis by Ryan Irving
Tolerancing kinematic couplings (Barraja, M. and Vallance, R.) Synopsis by Koichi Taniguchi

Method and apparatus for improving vision and the resolution of retinal images (Williams, D. Liang, J.)

Synopsis by Ron Liu

Reduction of flight hardware outgassing after integration under a less stringent requirement (Hughes, D. W. et al)

Synopsis by Eduardo Bendak
What’s Different about Ultraviolet and Infrared Optics? (Johnson, R. Berry) Synopsis by Christopher Hopkins
What’s Different about Ultraviolet and Infrared Optics? (Johnson, R. Berry) Synopsis by Michael Newel

The Management of Stray Radiation Issues in Space Optical Systems (Pompea, S.)

Synopsis by Bernie Outram

Kinematic Six-Ball Guide for Long Stroke Optical Delay Line (Braam et al)

Synopsis by Steve Heron

Material Problem in Athermalization of Optical Systems (Kryszczynski, T. , Lesniewski, M.)

Synopsis by Jason Lane

Strain-free mounting techniques for metal mirrors (Zimmerman, J.)

Synopsis by Tom Brokaw