Gary Carhart
ARL Researcher
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
2800 Powder Mill Road
Adelphi, Maryland 20783
phone: 301-394-0212
email: 
Education
- New Mexico State University
- University of New Mexico
Research Interests
- Adaptive Optics applied to Astronomical and Boundary Layer Imaging and Optical Communication Systems
- Optical Correlation applied to�Pattern Recognition�and Object Tracking Systems
- Performance Metrics, Algorithms and Control Systems applied to Adaptive Optics
Current Work
Currently involved in the development of the Target-in-the-loop Adaptive Directed Energy System, the Wavelength Division Multiplexing Optical Cummincation System and the ARL Atmospheric and Laser Optics Testbed Integrated Sensor System.
Cirriculum Vitae
Gary W. Carhart attended the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University studying physics, computer science, electrical engineering and optics. He has worked for the Air Force Weapons Laboratory as a Computer Engineer trainee, System Industries Inc. as a Field Service Engineer and the New Mexico State University as a Research Assistant and Systems Technologist. Currently he is an Information Technology Specialist in the Computational and Information Sciences Directorate of the Army Research Laboratory. He has published over 30 papers on the subjects of optical correlation and pattern recognition, parallel image processing and correction, adaptive optics and imaging through turbulence.
Publications
Recent papers published as primary author
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Atmospheric laser communication system with wide-angle tracking and adaptive compensation
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 5892 (2005) -
Adaptive compensation of the effects of non-stationary thermal blooming based on the stochastic parallel gradient descent optimization method
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 5162 (2003) -
Adaptive aberration correction based on an opto-electronic
Zernike wave front sensor and the decoupled stochastic
parallel gradient descent control technique
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 4493 (2002) -
Opto-electronic Zernike filter for high-resolution wavefront analysis
using a phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulator
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 4124 (2000) -
Adaptive wavefront correction using a VLSI implementation of the parallel gradient descent algorithm
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 3760 (1999)
Recent papers published as co-author
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Adaptive Array of Phase-Locked Fiber Collimators: Analysis and Experimental Demonstration
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Volume 15 (2009) -
Automated video enhancement from a stream of atmospherically-distorted images: the lucky-region fusion approach
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 7463 (2009) -
Deep turbulence effects compensation experiments with a cascaded adaptive optics system using a 3.63m telescope
Applied Optics, Volume 48 (2009) -
Image enhancement by local information fusion with pre-processing and composed metric
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 7090 (2008) -
Adaptive optical antennas: design and evaluation
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 6708 (2007)
