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  1. A discussion of performance metric standards for free space optical communications systems

    Article • October 2024, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  2. Convolutional neural network for improved event-based Shack-Hartmann wavefront reconstruction

    Article • Applied Optics, April 2024, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  3. Eclipse Turbulence Evaluation and Sensor Testing (eTEST)

    Article • January 2024, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  4. Laser Beacon Laboratory Surrogate Source

    Article • January 2024, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  5. Proposing a Standardized Metric for Comparing Free Space Optical Communication Systems

    Article • January 2024, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  6. Semi-analytic simulation of closed-form sources propagating through turbulence

    Article • October 2023, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  7. Modified Huygens-Fresnel method for propagation of partially coherent beams through turbulence

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America A, January 2023, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  8. Semi-analytic simulation of optical wave propagation through turbulence

    Article • Applied Optics, November 2022, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  9. 3D multi-plane sharpness metric maximization with variable corrective phase screens

    Article • Applied Optics, August 2021, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  10. Semi-analytic simulation of optical wave propagation through turbulence with arbitrary phase screen placement

    Article • August 2021, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  11. Optical Kerr effect field measurements and ad hoc engineering model comparisons

    Article • Optics Express, July 2021, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  12. Real-time image restoration for space-object imaging

    Article • Applied Optics, August 2019, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  13. Engineering equations for the filamentation collapse distance in lossy, turbulent, nonlinear media

    Article • Optics Express, August 2019, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  14. Turbulent phase derivative screens and verification of their statistics

    Article • Optics Letters, May 2019, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  15. Propagation of infrared ultrashort pulses in the air

    Article • May 2018, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  16. Coupled thermo-mechanical analysis of mass reduced silicon micromirrors

    Article • April 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  17. Engineering equations for characterizing nonlinear laser intensity propagation in air with loss: erratum

    Article • Optics Express, March 2018, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  18. Engineering equations for characterizing non-linear laser intensity propagation in air with loss

    Article • Optics Express, February 2018, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  19. Differential piston phase variance in non-Kolmogorov atmospheres

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America A, July 2017, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  20. Mass reduction patterning of silicon-on-oxide–based micromirrors

    Article • Journal of Micro/Nanolithography MEMS and MOEMS, December 2016, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  21. Electro-optic testbed utilizing a dynamic range gated Rayleigh beacon for atmospheric turbulence profiling

    Article • October 2016, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  22. Waveguide generated mitigation of speckle and scintillation on an actively illuminated target

    Article • September 2016, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  23. Two-dimensional simulation of optical wave propagation through atmospheric turbulence

    Article • Optics Letters, January 2015, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  24. Micro-mirror array simulation and far-field diffraction analysis

    Article • June 2014, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  25. LSPV+7, a branch-point-tolerant reconstructor for strong turbulence adaptive optics

    Article • Applied Optics, June 2014, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  26. Efficacy of predictive wavefront control for compensating aero-optical aberrations

    Article • Optical Engineering, March 2013, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  27. Comparison of branch point tolerant wavefront reconstructors in the presence of simulated noise effects

    Article • March 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  28. Multiple transmitter performance with appropriate amplitude modulation for free-space optical communication

    Article • Applied Optics, August 2011, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  29. Spatial coherence function of partially coherent Gaussian beams in atmospheric turbulence

    Article • Applied Optics, July 2011, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  30. Coupling of Gaussian Schell-model beams into single-mode optical fibers

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America A, May 2011, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  31. A flexible testbed for adaptive optics in strong turbulence

    Article • May 2011, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  32. Simulating the effects of an extended source on the Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor through turbulence

    Article • March 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  33. Effect of Coudé pupil rotation on sodium laser beacon perspective elongation

    Article • March 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  34. Multibeam scintillation cumulative distribution function

    Article • Optics Letters, January 2011, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  35. Material Classification of an Unknown Object Using Turbulence-Degraded Polarimetric Imagery

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, January 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  36. Determining the complex index of refraction of an unknown object using turbulence-degraded polarimetric imagery

    Article • Optical Engineering, December 2010, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  37. Enhanced material classification using turbulence-degraded polarimetric imagery

    Article • Optics Letters, October 2010, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  38. Impact of spatial resolution on thermal blooming phase compensation instability

    Article • August 2010, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  39. Numerical Simulation of Optical Wave Propagation with Examples in MATLAB

    Article • July 2010, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  40. Synergy of adaptive thresholds and multiple transmitters in free-space optical communication

    Article • Optics Express, April 2010, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  41. Phase unwrapping in the presence of strong turbulence

    Article • March 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  42. Correlation-based Shack-Hartmann wavefront slope sensing in strong turbulence

    Article • March 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  43. Wavefront sensor performance in strong turbulence with an extended beacon

    Article • March 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  44. Multi-beam transmitter geometries for free-space optical communications

    Article • February 2010, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  45. Impact of resolution in multi-conjugate adaptive optics systems using segmented mirrors

    Article • August 2009, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  46. Misregistration in adaptive optics systems

    Article • August 2009, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  47. Adaptive control of woofer-tweeter adaptive optics

    Article • August 2009, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  48. Photon-noise-limited performance for a hybrid wavefront sensor operating in strong turbulence

    Article • August 2009, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  49. A maximum likelihood estimator for tracking purposes with extended sources

    Article • March 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  50. Integrated approach to free-space optical communication

    Article • February 2009, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  51. Integrated approach to airborne laser communication

    Article • October 2008, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  52. Anisoplanatism in airborne laser communication

    Article • Optics Express, July 2008, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  53. Optical phase unwrapping in the presence of branch points

    Article • Optics Express, May 2008, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  54. Hybrid Wavefront Sensor for Strong Turbulence

    Article • January 2008, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  55. Emulation of optical effects of atmospheric turbulence using two liquid-crystal spatial light modulators

    Article • September 2007, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  56. An improved temporally phase-shifted SRI design

    Article • September 2007, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  57. Aberration production using a high-resolution liquid-crystal spatial light modulator

    Article • Applied Optics, April 2007, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  58. Emulating bulk turbulence with a liquid-crystal spatial light modulator

    Article • August 2006, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  59. Atmospheric turbulence simulation using liquid crystal spatial light modulators

    Article • August 2005, SPIE

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  60. The Size and Shape of Voids in Three‐dimensional Galaxy Surveys

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, January 2001, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  61. Heteroepitaxial growth in aqueous solutions: Rubidium iodide on mica

    Article • December 1998, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  62. Comparison of SnBr4 and di-n-butyl tin diacetate as laser-assisted chemical vapor deposition precursors for SnO2-based gas sensors

    Article • Applied Organometallic Chemistry, March 1998, Wiley

    Dr Jason D Schmidt

  63. High-Resolution Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulators for Adaptive Optics

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Jason D Schmidt