Engineering Publications

On the ShaneAO System

Donald Gavel, "Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for Astronomy," Optical Society of America Imaging and Applied Optics Congress Invited Talk, Arlington VA, June 2015. pptx version (large 37M)download

Gavel et. al, "ShaneAO: wide science spectrum adaptive optics system for the Lick Observatory," SPIE Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2014.

McGurk et. al, "Commissioning ShARCS: the Shane Adaptive optics infraRed Camera-Spectrograph for the Lick Observatory 3-m telescope," SPIE Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2014.

Gavel et. al., "Woofer-tweeter deformable mirror control for closed-loop adaptive optics: theory and practice," SPIE Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2014.

Ratliff et. al., "Opto-Mechanical Design of ShaneAO: the Adaptive Optics System for the 3-meter Shane Telescope," SPIE Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2014.

Srinath et. al., "Swimming with ShARCS: Comparison of On-sky Sensitivity With Model Predictions for ShaneAO on the Lick Observatory 3-meter Telescope," SPIE Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2014.