Sensors and Imaging Systems

We conduct research into the development of fully integrated end to end sensor systems for diverse applications, including emergency response, with an emphasis on the building of systems which deliver fully integrated data products into the hands of decision makes and researchers in near real-time.  We conduct research into the development of state-of-the art sensors and detectors for imaging under low light level conditions, including the testing and development of large focal plane infrared and optical arrays.

Related Laboratories
Related Faculty

Roger Easton
Don Figer
Joseph Hornak
Harvey Rhody

Group Publications

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

    Najarro, F.; Figer, D.F.; Kudritzki, R.P.; Hillier, J.D., Metallicity in the Galactic Center: The Arches cluster, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 611, 2, pp. L105-L108 (2009) [BibTeX]

    Walvoord, D.J.; Easton, R.L., Digital Transcription of Archimedes Palimpsest, IEEE Signal Processing (2008) [BibTeX]

    Wachter, S.; Ramirez-Ruiz, E.; Dwarkadas, V.V.; Kouveliotou, C.; Granot, J.; Patel, S.K.; Figer, D.F., Detection of an Infrared Ring around the magnetar SGR 1900+14, Nature, 453, 7195; doi:10.1038/nature06987;, pp. 626-628 (2008) [BibTeX]

    Najarro, F.; Figer, D.F.; Hillier, J.D.; Geballe, T.R.; Kudritzki, R.P., Metallicity in the Galactic Center: The Quintuplet cluster , Astrophysical Journal (2007) [BibTeX]

    Zhu, Q.; Kudritzki, R.P.; Figer, D.F.; Najarro, F.; Merritt, D., Radial Velocities of Stars in the Galactic Center , Astrophysical Journal (2007) [BibTeX]

    Davies, B.; Figer, D.F.; Herrero, A.; Kudritzki, R.P.; Najarro, F.; MacKenty, J.W., A massive cluster of Red Supergiants at the base of the Scutum-Crux arm, Astrophysical Journal, 671, 781 (2007) [BibTeX]

    Wachter, S.; Kouveliotou, C.; Figer, D.F.; Patel, S.K.; Woods, P., Spitzer Space Telescope Observations of SGR and AXP Environments, Astrophysics and Space Science, 308, 1-4, pp. 67-71 (2007) [BibTeX]

    Davies, B.; Figer, D.F.; Law, C.J.; Kudritzki, R.P.; Najarro, F.; Herrero, A.; MacKenty, J.W., The cool supergiant population of the massive young star cluster RSGC1, Astrophysical Journal (2007) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F., The Arches Cluster Mass Function, API (2006) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F., Pinwheels in the Quintuplet Cluster, Science (2006) [BibTeX]

    Ninkov, Z., RYTSI:The Rochester Institute of Technology-Yale Tip-Tilt Speckle Imager, PASP, 118, 162 (2006) [BibTeX]

    Ninkov, Z., Quantum Efficiency Overestimation and Deterministic Cross Talk Resulting from Interpixel Capacitance, Optical Engineering, 45 (2006) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F.; MacKenty, J.W.; Robberto, M.; Smith, K.; Najarro, F.; Kudritzki, R.P., Discovery of an Extraordinarily Massive Young Stellar Cluster, Astrophysical Journal, 643 (2006) [BibTeX]

    Tanner, A.; Figer, D.F.; Najarro, F.; Kudritzki, R.P.; Gilmore, D.; Morris, M.; Becklin, E.E., High Spectral Resolution Observations of the Massive Stars in the Galactic Center, Astrophysical Journal, 641 (2006) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F.; MacKenty, J.W.; Robberto, M.; Smith, K.; Najarro, F.; Kudritzki, R.P.; Herrero, A., Discovery of an Extraordinarily Massive Cluster of Red Supergiants, Astrophysical Journal, 643, pp. 1166-1179 (2006) [BibTeX]

    Kim, S.S.; Figer, D.F.; Lee, M.G.; Oh, S., Theoretical Isochrones with Extinction in the K Band, PASP, 117 (2005) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F.; Najarro, F.; Geballe, T.R.; Blum, R.D.; Kudritzki, R.P., Massive Stars in the SGR 1806-20 Cluster, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 622, L49 (2005) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F., An upper limit to the masses of stars, Nature, 34 (2005) [BibTeX]

    Easton, R.L.; Noel, W., Multispectral Imaging of the Archimedes Palimpsest, Gazette du Livre Medieval, 45, pp. 39-49 (2004) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F.; Najarro, F.; Kudritzki, R.P., The Double-lined Spectrum of LBV 1806-20, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 610, L109 (2004) [BibTeX]

    Kim, S.S.; Morris, M.; Figer, D.F., Dynamical Friction on Galactic Center Star Clusters with a Central Intermediate-Mass Black Hole, Astrophysical Journal, 607, L123 (2004) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F., History for the Galactic Center from Hubble Space Telescope/NICMOS Observations, Astrophysical Journal, 601, 319 (2004) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F.; Gilmore, D.; Kim, S.S.; Graham, J.R.; Larkin, J.E.; Levenson, N.A.; Teplitz, H.I.; Morris, M.; Becklin, E.E.; McLean, I.S.; Gilbert, A.M., High Precision Stellar Radial Velocities in the Galactic Center, Astrophysical Journal, 599 (2003) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F.; Najarro, F.; Gilmore, D.; Morris, M.; Teplitz, H.I.; Levenson, N.A.; Larkin, J.E.; Graham, J.R.; Gilbert, A.M.; McLean, I.S.; Serabyn, E.; Kim, S.S., Massive Stars in the Arches Cluster, Astrophysical Journal, 581 (2002) [BibTeX]

    Stotle, A.; Grebel, E.K.; Brandner, W.; Figer, D.F., The Mass Function of the Arches Cluster from Gemini Adaptive Optics Data, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 394 (2002) [BibTeX]

    Mumma, M.J.; Figer, D.F., A Survey of Organic Volatile Species in Comet C/1999 H1 (Lee) Using NIRSPEC at the Keck Observatory, Astrophysical Journal, 546 (2001) [BibTeX]

    Roe, H.G.; Graham, J.R.; McLean, I.S.; de Pater, I.; Becklin, E.E.; Figer, D.F.; Gilbert, A.M.; Larkin, J.E.; Levenson, N.A.; Teplitz, H.I.; Wilcox, M.K., The Altitude of an Infrared Bright Cloud Feature on Neptune from Near-infrared Spectroscopy, Astronomical Journal, 122 (2001) [BibTeX]

    Carson, J.E.; Larkin, J.E.; McLean, I.S.; Graham, J.R.; Becklin, E.E.; Figer, D.F.; Gilbert, A.M.; Levenson, N.A.; Teplitz, H.I.; Wilcox, M.K., Resolved IR Spectroscopy of Two High Redshift Radio Galaxies, Astronomical Journal, 563 (2001) [BibTeX]

    Moneti, A.; Stolovy, S.R.; Blommaert, J.A.; Figer, D.F.; Najarro, F., Mid-Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Enigmatic Cocoon Stars in the Quintuplet Cluster, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 366 (2001) [BibTeX]

    Kim, S.S.; Figer, D.F.; Lee, H.M.; Morris, M., N-body Simulations of Compact Young Clusters Near the Galactic Center, Astrophysical Journal, 545 (2000) [BibTeX]

    Teplitz, H.I.; Figer, D.F., Measurement of [OIII] Emission in Lyman Break Galaxies,, Astrophysical Journal, 542 (2000) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F.; Becklin, E.E.; McLean, I.S.; Gilbert, A.M.; Graham, J.R.; Larkin, J.E.; Levenson, N.A.; Teplitz, H.I.; Wilcox, M.K.; Morris, M., 2-micron Spectroscopy within 0.3 arcseconds of Sgr A*, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533 (2000) [BibTeX]

    Gilbert, A.M.; Graham, J.R.; McLean, I.S.; Becklin, E.E.; Figer, D.F.; Larkin, J.E.; Levenson, N.A.; Teplitz, H.I.; Wilcox, M.K., Infrared Spectroscopy of a Massive Obscured Star Cluster in the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/9) with NIRSPEC, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533 (2000) [BibTeX]

    Levenson, N.A.; Graham, J.R.; McLean, I.S.; Becklin, E.E.; Figer, D.F.; Gilbert, A.M.; Larkin, J.E.; Teplitz, H.I.; Wilcox, M.K., Hot Stars and Cool Clouds: The Photodissociation Region M16, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533 (2000) [BibTeX]

    Larkin, J.E.; McLean, I.S.; Graham, J.R.; Becklin, E.E.; Figer, D.F.; Gilbert, A.M.; Glassman, T.M.; Levenson, N.A.; Teplitz, H.I.; Wilcox, M.K., Discovery of an Obscured Broad Line Region in the High Redshift Radio Galaxy MRC 2025-218, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533 (2000) [BibTeX]

    Teplitz, H.I.; McLean, I.S.; Becklin, E.E.; Graham, J.R.; Figer, D.F.; Gilbert, A.M.; Larkin, J.E.; Levenson, N.A.; Wilcox, M.K., The Rest-Frame Optical Spectrum of MS 1512-cB58, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533 (2000) [BibTeX]

    McLean, I.S.; Graham, J.R.; Becklin, E.E.; Figer, D.F.; Gilbert, A.M.; Larkin, J.E.; Levenson, N.A.; Teplitz, H.I.; Wilcox, M.K., J-band Infrared Spectroscopy of a Sample of Brown Dwarfs using NIRSPEC on Keck II, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 533 (2000) [BibTeX]

    Geballe, T.R.; Najarro, F.; Figer, D.F., A Second Luminous Blue Variable in the Quintuplet Cluster, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 530 (2000) [BibTeX]

    Lang, C.C.; Figer, D.F.; Goss, M.; Morris, M., Radio Detections of Stellar Winds from the Pistol Star and from other Stars in the Galactic Center Quintuplet Cluster, Astronomical Journal, 118, pp. 23-27 (1999) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F.; Kim, S.S.; Morris, M.; Serabyn, E.; Rich, M.; McLean, I.S., HST/NICMOS Observations of Massive Stellar Clusters Near the Galactic Center, Astrophysical Journal, 525 (1999) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F.; Morris, M.; Geballe, T.R.; Rich, M.; Serabyn, E.; McClean, I.S.; Puetter, R.C.; Yahil, A., High-Resolution Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Pistol Nebula: Evidence for Ejection, Astrophysical Journal, 525 (1999) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F.; McClean, I.S.; Morris, M., Massive Stars in the Quintuplet, Astrophysical Journal, 514 (1999) [BibTeX]

    Serabyn, E.; Shupe, D.; Figer, D.F., An Extraordinary Cluster of Massive Stars in the Milky Way’s Core, Nature, 394 (1998) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F.; Najarro, F.; Morris, M.; McLean, I.S.; Geballe, T.R.; Ghez, A.M.; Langer, N., The Pistol Star, Astrophysical Journal, 506, 1, pp. 384-404 (1998) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F.; McLean, I.S.; Najarro, F., A K band Spectral Atlas of Wolf Rayet Stars, Astrophysical Journal, 486 (1997) [BibTeX]

    Blum, R.D.; Ramond, T.M.; Conti, P.S.; Figer, D.F.; Sellgren, K., H Band Spectroscopic Classification of OB Stars, Astronomical Journal, 113 (1997) [BibTeX]

    Easton, R.L.; Eschbach, R.; Nagarajan, R., Error diffusion in cell-oriented holograms to compensate for printing constraints, Journal of Modern Optics, 43, 6, pp. 1219-1236 (1996) [BibTeX]

    Dube, R.R., Grating Decay in BSO at Low Temperatures, IBM Technical Journal (1995) [BibTeX]

    Figer, D.F.; McLean, I.S.; Morris, M., Two New Wolf-Rayet Stars and a Luminous Blue Variable Star in the Quintuplet (AFGL 2004) Near the Galactic Center, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 447 (1995) [BibTeX]

    Levine, D.A.; Figer, D.F.; Morris, M.; McLean, I.S., A Circumstellar H2O Maser Associated with the Circumnuclear Molecular Disk at the Galactic Center?, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 447 (1995) [BibTeX]

    Eschbach, R.; Easton, R.L.; Nagarajan, R., Using adaptive quantization in cell-oriented holograms, Optics Communications, 114, pp. 370-374 (1995) [BibTeX]

    Ninkov, Z.; Bretz, D.R.; Easton, R.L.; Shure, M., Imaging of the Central Region of IC 1805, Astronomical Journal, 110, 5, pp. 2242-2255 (1995) [BibTeX]

    Hildebrand, R.H.; Davidson, J.A.; Dotson, J.; Figer, D.F.; Novak, G.; Platt, S.R.; Tao, L., Polarization of the Thermal Emission from the Dust Ring at the Center of the Galaxy, Astrophysical Journal, 417, 2, pp. 565-571 (1993) [BibTeX]

    Easton, R.L., SIGNALS: Interactive Software for One-Dimensional Signal Processing, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 1, 6, pp. 489-501 (1993) [BibTeX]

    Dube, R.R., Role of Electron Hole Transport in the Formation of Extended Lifetime Holograms in Photo-refractive Media, IBM Technical Journal, 15474, 2-92 (1992) [BibTeX]

    Daels; Easton, R.L.; Eschbach, R., Analysis of threshold modulations in one-dimensional error diffusion, Optics Communications, 87, pp. 93-98 (1992) [BibTeX]

    Morris, M.; Davidson, J.A.; Werner, M.; Dotson, J.; Figer, D.F.; Hildebrand, R.H.; Novak, G.; Platt, S.R., Polarization of the Thermal Arches at the Galactic Center, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 399 (1992) [BibTeX]

    Steinberg, E.; Rolleston, R.J.; Easton, R.L., Analysis of random dithering patterns using second-order statistics, Journal of Electronic Imaging, 1, pp. 396-404 (1992) [BibTeX]

    Dube, R.R., Real Time Defect Inspection of Periodic Patterns Using Self Pumped Barium Titanate, Optics Communications, 77, 2 (1990) [BibTeX]

    Dube, R.R., Real Time Defect Inspection of Periodic Patterns Using Self Pumped Barium Titanate Crystal, IBM Research Contributions, 15852, 6-95 (1990) [BibTeX]

    Dube, R.R., Dependence of Phase Conjugate Signals in BSO on the Frequency of an Applied AC Field, Optics Letters, 1988 (1988) [BibTeX]

    Gmitro, A.F.; Gindi, G.R.; Barrett, H.H.; Easton, R.L., Two­-dimensional image processing by one-dimensional filtering of projection data, Proceedings of the SPIE, 388 (1988) [BibTeX]

    Easton, R.L.; Barrett, H.H., Tomographic Transformations in Optical Signal Processing, Optical Signal Processing Processing, pp. 335-386 (1987) [BibTeX]

    Milster, T.D.; Selberg, L.A.; Barrett, H.H.; Easton, R.L.; Rossi, G.R.; Arendt, J.W.; Simpson, R.G., A modular scintillation camera for use in nuclear medicine, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 31, 1 (1985) [BibTeX]

    Ticknor, A.J.; Easton, R.L.; Barrett, H.H., A two-dimensional Radon­-Fourier transformer, Optical Engineering, 24, 1 (1985) [BibTeX]

    Easton, R.L.; Ticknor, A.J.; Barrett, H.H., Two-dimensional complex Fourier transform via the Radon transform, Applied Optics, 24 (1985) [BibTeX]

    Easton, R.L.; Ticknor, A.J.; Barrett, H.H., Application of the Radon transform to optical production of the Wigner distribution function, Optical Engineering, 23, 6 (1984) [BibTeX]

    Easton, R.L.; Ticknor, A.J.; Barrett, H.H., 2-D Fourier transform by means of the Radon transform, Proc. IEEE Ultrasonics Symp., 185 (1983) [BibTeX]

    Blodgett, J.A.; Easton, R.L., Two-stage spatial filtering for diffraction pattern analysis, Applied Optics, 20, 6, pp. 1050-1055 (1981) [BibTeX]


SENIOR RESEARCH PROJECTS


PATENTS

    Dube, R.R., Electronic File Protection Using Location, 7,177,426, issued to DAT, Inc. (2003) [BibTeX]

    Dube, R.R., Electronic File Protection Using Location, EP 1330890, issued to DAT (2003) [BibTeX]

    Dube, R.R., Method and Apparatus for Real Time Digital Certification of Electronic Files and Transactions Using Entropy Factors, 7,231,044, issued to DAT, Inc. (2001) [BibTeX]

    Dube, R.R., Method and Apparatus for Real Time Digital Certification of Electronic Files and Transactions Using Entropy Factors, EP 0425088, issued to DAT, Inc. (2001) [BibTeX]

    Dube, R.R., Information Storage in Holograms, EP 0425088, issued to IBM (1995) [BibTeX]

    Dube, R.R., Storing Information in Dual Holographic Images, 5,039,182, issued to IBM (1991) [BibTeX]

    Dube, R.R., Holographic Recording in Photo refractive Crystals, EP 318148, issued to IBM (1989) [BibTeX]

    Dube, R.R., Holographic Apparatus, EP 0201273, issued to IBM (1986) [BibTeX]


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