Publications

• Gavel, D. (2017). Point Spread Function for Ground Layer Adaptive Optics. arXiv [Astro-ph.IM]. Retrieved from doi-link
• Rudy, A. R. (2017). Focusing in : The Crab pulsar, kinematics of ULIRGS and Linear Quadratic Gaussian Control for adaptive optics. PhD Thesis, Astronomy and Astrophysics, U.C. Santa Cruz.
• Gavel, D. T., Kupke, R., Rudy, A. R., Srinath, S., Dillon, D., & Poyneer, L. A. (2016). Lick Observatory's Shane telescope adaptive optics system (ShaneAO): research directions and progress. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 9909, p. 99092W). doi-link
• Gavel, D. T. (2015). Second generation laser guide star adaptive optics for astronomy: MEMS and fiber lasers lead the way. In Adaptive Optics: Analysis, Methods and Systems, AO 2015. doi-link
• Gavel, D., Kupke, R., Dillon, D., Norton, A., Ratliff, C., Cabak, J., & Pfister, T. (2015). Laser guide star adaptive optics at Lick Observatory. In Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes 4 - Conference Proceedings. doi-link
• Rampy, R., Gavel, D., Rochester, S. M., & Holzlöhner, R. (2015). Toward optimization of pulsed sodium laser guide stars. Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 32(12). doi-link
• Gavel, D., Kupke, R., Dillon, D., Norton, A., Ratliff, C., Cabak, J., & Pfister, T. (2014). ShaneAO : wide science spectrum adaptive optics system for the Lick Observatory. SPIE Proceedings, 9148, 1-11. doi-link
• McGurk, R., Rockosi, C., Gavel, D., Kupke, R., Peck, M., Pfister, T., & Norton, A. (2014). Commissioning ShARCS: The Shane adaptive optics infrared camera-spectrograph for the Lick Observatory Shane 3-m telescope. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 9148). http://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057027Gavel, D. (2005). Stability of Closed-Loop Tomography Algorithms for Adaptive Optics. In Adaptive Optics: Analysis and Methods/Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging/Information Photonics/Signal Recovery and Synthesis Topical Meetings on CD-ROM (p. AThA5). doi-link
• Ratliff, C., Cabak, J., Gavel, D., Kupke, R., Dillon, D., Gates, E., & Saylor, M. (2014). Opto-mechanical design of ShaneAO: The adaptive optics system for the 3-meter Shane Telescope. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 9148). doi-link
• Ammons, S. M., Neichel, B., Lu, J., Gavel, D. T., Srinath, S., McGurk, R., & Sivo, G. (2014). A measurement of the systematic astrometric error in GeMS and the short-term astrometric precision in ShaneAO. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 9148). doi-link
• Rudy, A. R., Srinath, S., Poyneer, L., Ammons, S. M., Gavel, D., Kupke, R., & Rockosi, C. (2014). Progress towards wind predictive control on ShaneAO: Test bench results. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 9148). doi-link
• Norton, A. P., Gavel, D. T., Helmbrecht, M., Kempf, C., Gates, E., Chloros, K., & Dillon, D. (2014). Laser guidestar uplink correction using a MEMS deformable mirror: On-sky test results and implications for future AO systems. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 9148). doi-link
• Gavel, D., & Norton, A. (2014). Woofer-tweeter deformable mirror control for closed-loop adaptive optics: Theory and practice. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 9148). doi-link
• Norton, A. P., Srinath, S., Gavel, D., Kupke, R., & Dillon, D. (2014). Using a deformable mirror to generate custom laser guidestar asterisms: Simulation and laboratory results. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 9148). doi-link
• Norton, A., Gavel, D., Kupke, R., Reinig, M., Srinath, S., & Dillon, D. (2013). Performance assessment of a candidate architecture for real-time woofer-tweeter controllers: Simulation and experimental results. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 8617). doi-link
• Gavel, D. T. (2012). An overview of guidestar laser technologies. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 8447). doi-link
• Kupke, R., Gavel, D., Roskosi, C., Cabak, G., Cowley, D., Dillon, D., & Reinig, M. (2012). ShaneAO: An enhanced adaptive optics and IR imaging system for the Lick Observatory 3-meter telescope. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 8447). doi-link
• Ammons, S. M., Poyneer, L., Gavel, D. T., Kupke, R., Max, C. E., & Johnson, L. (2012). Evidence that wind prediction with multiple guide stars reduces tomographic errors and expands MOAO field of regard. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 8447). doi-link
• Morzinski, K. M., Norton, A. P., Evans, J. W., Reza, L., Severson, S. A., Dillon, D., & Max, C. E. (2012). MEMS practice, from the lab to the telescope. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 8253). doi-link
• Gavel, D. (2011). New adaptive optics system at Lick Observatory uses MEMS. Laser Focus World, 47(8).
• Gavel, D. T. (2011). Development of an enhanced adaptive optics system for the Lick Observatory Shane 3-meter telescope. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 7931). doi-link
• Johnson, L. C., Gavel, D. T., & Wiberg, D. M. (2011). Bulk wind estimation and prediction for adaptive optics control systems. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision, 28(8). doi-link
• Thomas, S. J., Gavel, D., & Kibrick, R. (2010). Analysis of on-sky sodium profile data from Lick Observatory. Applied Optics, 49(3). doi-link
• Rampy, R., Gavel, D., Dillon, D., & Thomas, S. (2010). New method of fabricating phase screens for simulated atmospheric turbulence. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 7736). doi-link
• Ammons, S. M., Johnson, L., Gavel, D. T., Kupke, R., & Max, C. E. (2009). Laboratory experiments of laser tomographic adaptive optics at visible wavelengths. In Optics InfoBase Conference Papers.
• Gavel, D., Ammons, M., Bauman, B., Dillon, D., Gates, E., Grigsby, B., & Severson, S. (2008). Visible light laser guidestar experimental system (Villages): on-sky tests of new technologies for visible wavelength all-sky coverage adaptive optics systems. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 7015). doi-link
• Kupke, R., Gavel, D., Johnson, J., & Reinig, M. (2008). Implementation of the pyramid wave-front sensor as a direct phase detector for large amplitude aberrations. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 7015). doi-link
• Ammons, S. M., Johnson, L., Laag, E. A., Kupke, R., & Gavel, D. T. (2008). Laboratory demonstrations of multi-object adaptive optics in the visible on a 10 meter telescope. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 7015). doi-link
• Johnson, L. C., Gavel, D. T., Reinig, M., & Wiberg, D. M. (2008). Wind estimation and prediction for adaptive optics control systems. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 7015). doi-link
• Morzinski, K. M., Harpsøe, K. B. W., Gavel, D. T., & Ammons, S. M. (2007). The open-loop control of MEMS: Modeling and experimental results. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 6467). doi-link
• Johnson, J. A., Kupke, R., Gavel, D., & Bauman, B. (2006). Pyramid wavefront sensing: Theory and component technology development at LAO. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 6272 III). doi-link
• Wiberg, D. M., Max, C. E., & Gavel, D. T. (2005). Geometric view of adaptive optics control. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision, 22(5). doi-link

• Macintosh, B., Graham, J. R., Ingraham, P., Konopacky, Q., Marois, C., Perrin, M., & Wolff, S. (2014). First light of the Gemini Planet Imager. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(35). doi-link
• MacIntosh, B. A., Anthony, A., Atwood, J., Bauman, B., Cardwell, A., Caputa, K., & Wolff, S. G. (2014). The Gemini planet imager: First light and commissioning. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 9148). doi-link
• Thomas, S. J., Poyneer, L., De Rosa, R., Macintosh, B., Dillon, D., Wallace, J. K., & Goodsell, S. (2011). Integration and test of the Gemini Planet Imager. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 8149). doi-link
• Thomas, S. J., Give’on, A. A., Dillon, D., Macintosh, B., Gavel, D., & Soummer, R. (2010). Laboratory test of application of electric field conjugation image-sharpening to ground-based adaptive optics. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 7736). doi-link
• Thomas, S. J., Soummer, R., Dillon, D., Macintosh, B., Evans, J. W., Gavel, D., & Oppenheimer, B. R. (2008). Testing the Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraph on the Laboratory for Adaptive Optics Extreme Adaptive Optics testbed. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 7015). doi-link
• Macintosh, B. A., Graham, J. R., Palmer, D. W., Doyon, R., Dunn, J., Gavel, D. T., & Soummer, R. (2008). The Gemini planet imager: From science to design to construction. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 7015). doi-link
• Macintosh, B., Graham, J., Palmer, D., Doyon, R., Gavel, D., Larkin, J., & Veran, J.-P. (2007). Adaptive optics for direct detection of extrasolar planets: the Gemini Planet Imager. Comptes Rendus Physique, 8(3-4). doi-link
• Evans, J. W., Morzinski, K., Severson, S., Poyneer, L., Macintosh, B., Dillon, D., & Bierden, P. (2006). Extreme Adaptive Optics Testbed: Performance and characterization of a 1024-MEMS deformable mirror. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 6113). doi-link
• Morzinski, K. M., Evans, J. W., Severson, S., Macintosh, B., Dillon, D., Gavel, D., & Palmer, D. (2006). Characterising the potential of MEMS deformable mirrors for astronomical adaptive optics. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 6272 II). doi-link
• Evans, J. W., Macintosh, B., Poyneer, L., Morzinski, K., Severson, S., Dillon, D., & Reza, L. (2006). Demonstrating sub-nm closed loop MEMS flattening. Optics Express, 14(12). doi-link