Dr. Dan MacDonald Profile

Dr. Dan MacDonald

Technical Staff Member at Jet Propulsion Lab

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Publications (9)

Proceedings Article | 12 March 2024 Presentation + Paper

Deep space optical communications technology demonstration

Abhijit Biswas, Meera Srinivasan, Kenneth Andrews, Erik Alerstam, Angel Velasco, Malcolm Wright, Joseph Kovalik, Brett Douglas, Jason Allmaras, Vincent Van Rhein, Emma Wollman, Ryan Rogalin, Sean Meenehan, David Zhu, Dylan Conway, Oscar Alvarez-Salazar, Christopher Pong, Herrick Chang, Marcus Wilkerson, Edwin Grigorian, Nathaniel Richard, Daniel Cho, Yuri Beregovski, William Buehlman, Luke Stewart, Mark Brewer, Christine Chen, Vachik Garkanian, Gerardo Ortiz, Daniel Macdonald, Sarah Haque, Matthew Shaw, Christopher Leffler, Greg Agnes, Joel Johnson, Arthur Na-Nakornpanom, Rogeliio Rosas, Jason Mumolo, Oliver Lay, Roger O'Brient, Marcum Martz, Gregory Miles, Kitt Matthews, Hernan Erlig, Dorothy Lewis, Anthony Mittskus, Serge Dubovitsky, William Klipstein

Proceedings Volume 12877, 1287706 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3001750

KEYWORDS: Actuators, Transmitters, Telescopes, Sensors, Interfaces, Receivers, Signal processing, Laser safety, Space operations, Deep space optical communications

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Proceedings Article | 23 July 2008 Paper

Panel options for large precision radio telescopes

David Woody, Dan MacDonald, Matt Bradford, Richard Chamberlin, Mark Dragovan, Paul Goldsmith, James Lamb, Simon Radford, Jonas Zmuidzinas

Proceedings Volume 7018, 70180T (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788077

KEYWORDS: Actuators, Reflectors, Telescopes, Sensors, Error analysis, Manufacturing, Control systems, Radio telescopes, Aluminum, Temperature metrology

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Proceedings Article | 17 July 2008 Paper

Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope primary mirror surface sensing and controllability

Daniel MacDonald, David Woody, C. Matt Bradford, Richard Chamberlin, Mark Dragovan, Paul Goldsmith, Simon Radford, Thomas Sebring, Jonas Zmuidzinas

Proceedings Volume 7012, 701211 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.790528

KEYWORDS: Actuators, Carbon, Telescopes, Mirrors, Sensors, Wavefront sensors, Wavefronts, Control systems, Control systems design, Thermal modeling

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2008 Paper

Advances in edge sensors for the Thirty Meter Telescope primary mirror

Chris Shelton, Terry Mast, Gary Chanan, Jerry Nelson, Lewis Roberts, Mitchell Troy, Mark Sirota, Byoung-Joon Seo, Daniel MacDonald

Proceedings Volume 7012, 701210 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.790415

KEYWORDS: Actuators, Telescopes, Mirrors, Thirty Meter Telescope, Sensors, Calibration, Image segmentation, Motion models, Sensor calibration, Temperature metrology

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Proceedings Article | 31 August 2005 Paper

Current progress on TPFI nulling architectures at Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Robert Gappinger, J. Wallace, Randall Bartos, Daniel Macdonald, Kenneth Brown

Proceedings Volume 5905, 590506 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.618700

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Beam splitters, Interferometers, Glasses, Reflectivity, Interferometry, Single mode fibers, Infrared radiation, Nulling interferometry, Phase shifts

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Proceedings Article | 20 October 2004 Paper

Mid-IR interferometric nulling for TPF

James Wallace, Vivek Babtiwale, Randy Bartos, Ken Brown, Robert Gappinger, Frank Loya, Dan MacDonald, Stefan Martin, John Negron, Tuan Truong, Gautam Vasisht

Proceedings Volume 5491, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551558

KEYWORDS: Mid-IR, Beam splitters, Spatial filters, Interferometers, Sensors, Interferometry, Laser metrology, Planets, Cryogenics, Nulling interferometry

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Proceedings Article | 19 July 1996 Paper

CdZnTe strip detectors for high-energy x-ray astronomy

James Matteson, Wayne Coburn, Fred Duttweiller, Thomas Gasaway, William Heindl, Philippe Leblanc, Daniel MacDonald, Michael Pelling, Laurence Peterson, Richard Rothschild, Robert Skelton, Paul Hink, Chris Crabtree

Proceedings Volume 2859, (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.245124

KEYWORDS: Electronics, Sensors, Electrodes, X-rays, Image resolution, Collimators, Photomasks, Spatial resolution, X-ray astronomy, X-ray detectors

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Proceedings Article | 1 October 1991 Paper

UCSD high-energy x-ray timing experiment cosmic ray particle anticoincidence detector

Paul Hink, Richard Rothschild, Michael Pelling, Daniel MacDonald, Duane Gruber

Proceedings Volume 1549, (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.48338

KEYWORDS: Light emitting diodes, Sensors, Particles, Photons, X-rays, Scintillators, Scintillation, Gamma radiation, Muons, X-ray astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 1 October 1991 Paper

Design and performance of an automatic gain control system for the high-energy x-ray timing experiment

Michael Pelling, Richard Rothschild, Daniel MacDonald, Robert Hertel, Edward Nishiie

Proceedings Volume 1549, (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.48334

KEYWORDS: Astronomy, Modulation, Sensors, X-rays, Control systems, Extreme ultraviolet, Gamma radiation, X-ray astronomy, X-ray detectors, Control systems design

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