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What we do?

Under the directorship of the Dr. Shri Kulkarni, and Associate Director for Development, Dr. Richard Dekany, Caltech Optical Observatories develops astronomical instrumentation, including detector systems, to serve the scientific interests of Caltech's astronomers. Caltech is a partner in the Palomar Observatory, Keck Observatory, Thirty Meter Telescope and the SuperNova/Acceleration Probe satellite project. Thus our detector interests cover UV, Optical and Near IR wavelengths, scientific detectors and large format mosaics, both CCDs and CMOS hybrids, in very low light applications. We are also actively pursuing high speed wavefront sensor technologies, both NIR and optical, for Adaptive Optics. To get the most out of the detectors we optimize detector control electronics, and are particularly interested in characterizing the emerging ASICs which will replace discrete controllers.

Who are we?

Ernest Croner, Electronics Technician

David Hale, Programmer

Gustavo Rahmer, Electronics Engineer

Roger Smith, Lead EE (detector lead)

Former members:

Max Zavodny, detector testing & analsysis

Marco Bonati, Programmer (& detector EE)

Dani Guzman, Electronics Engineer

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