Thomas Weyrauch
UMD Assistant Research Scientist
University of Maryland
2107 Technology Ventures Building
5000 College Avenue
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-403-2096, 301-394-0199
fax: 301-403-2098
email:
Education
- Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) Physics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
- M.S. (Diplom-Physiker) Physics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Research Interests
- Microscale adaptive optics systems
- Adaptive optics for laser communication
- Atmospheric propagation
- Liquid crystal and optical modulator technology
Publications
Recent papers published as primary author
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Adaptive optical antennas: design and evaluation
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 6708 (2007) -
Free-space laser communications with adaptive optics: atmospheric compensation experiments
J. Opt. Fiber Commun. Rep., Volume 1 (2005) -
Atmospheric compensation with a speckle
beacon in strong scintillation conditions: directed
energy and laser communication applications
Appl. Opt., Volume 44 (2005) -
Mitigation of atmospheric-turbulence-induced phase aberrations over a 2.3 km near-horizontal propagation path with a dual-conjugate adaptive optics system
Proceedings of the 2004 AMOS Technical Conference (2004) -
Atmospheric compensation over a 2.3 km propagation path with a multi-conjugate (piston-MEMS/modal DM) adaptive system
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 5552 (2004)
Recent papers published as co-author
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Deep turbulence effects compensation experiments with a cascaded adaptive optics system using a 3.63m telescope
Applied Optics, Volume 48 (2009) -
Adaptive Array of Phase-Locked Fiber Collimators: Analysis and Experimental Demonstration
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Volume 15 (2009) -
Adaptive phase-locked fiber array with wavefront phase tip-tilt compensation using piezoelectric fiber positioners
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 6708 (2007) -
Adaptive compensation over a 2.33 km propagation path with retro
reflectors under strong scintillation conditions.
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 6708 (2007) -
Atmospheric Turbulence Compensation of Point Source Images Using
Asynchronous Stochastic Parallel Gradient Descent Technique on AMOS 3.6 m
Telescope
AMOS Conference Proceedings (2007)


