Workshop Overview:
The goal of our study is to create a new paradigm in UV/Optical instrument design, detector technology, and optics that will form the technological foundation for the next generation of UV/Optical missions. Discoveries from GALEX, FUSE, HST, Cassini (UVIS), and Rosetta (ALICE) have opened up exciting new areas to be explored in UV/Optical science. At the same time, recent advances in nanotechnology and nanoengineering are creating new designer materials with unprecedented control over performance. When coupled with novel device design, these nano-engineered materials lead to new approaches in the design of detectors, sources, and optical instruments with tailored response and bandpass. The combination of these technological advances with exciting new questions in cosmology, astrophysics and planetary science, makes this a crucial moment for achieving revolutionary leaps forward in UV/Optical instrumentation and science.
We will review the science requirements for pioneering new areas, review and evaluate the emerging technologies, and develop a strategy which both links science requirements to currently available technologies and looks to the future. We will evaluate and prioritize various technologies for optics, coatings, new detector approaches, and new instrument designs; and we will recommend the promising areas for development. Through this study, the UV/Optical community will be in a stronger position to play a leading role in the concept and design of future missions based on these pioneering innovative technologies.
Team Leads
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Caltech
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JPL
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David Schiminovich
Columbia University
- Matthew Beasley — University of Colorado
- Douglas D Bell — JPL
- Kris Bertness — NIST
- Edoardo Charbon — Delft University of Technology
- Sam R Cheng — JPL
- Kevin France — University of Colorado at Boulder
- Cynthia S Froning — University of Colorado
- Tim Goodsall — Caltech
- Frank Greer — JPL
- Erika T Hamden — Columbia University
- Amanda R. Hendrix — JPL
- Michael E. Hoenk — JPL/Caltech
- Greg Holsclaw — University of Colorado
- Mary Elizabeth Kaiser — Johns Hopkins University
- Christopher Martin — Caltech
- Yuki Maruyama — Delft University of Technology
- Matt Matuszewski — Caltech
- Ben A Mazin — UCSB
- Patrick Morrissey — Caltech
- Lis K. Nanver — Delft University of Technology
- Shouleh Nikzad — JPL
- Tim J Norton — UMBC/NASA GSFC
- Hakeem M Oluseyi — Florida Institute of Technology
- Alice L. Reinheimer — E2V Technologies
- David Schiminovich — Columbia University
- Paul Scowen — Arizona State University
- Shadi Shahedipour-Sandvik — State University of New York-Albany
- Ossy H. W. Siegmund — UC Berkeley
- Wes A. Traub — JPL
- Todd Veach — Arizona State University
- Bruce E Woodgate — NASA GSFC
Presentations
| Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation |
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| Paul Scowen | ASU | UV Spectroscopy/Imaging and Science Questions (11 MB .pdf) |
| Michael Hoenk, Frank Greer | JPL | What is on the Surface? (6.58 MB .pdf) (2.5 MB .pdf) |
| Nai-Chang Yeh | Caltech | Nanotechnology and its relevance to UV Science (4.4 MB .pdf) |
| Kevin France, Chris Martin, Bruce Woodgate, Amanda Hendrix, Hakeem Olusheyi, Wes Traub | Panel Discussion on UV/Optical Science | |
| Kevin France | University of Colorado | From Protoplanetary Disks to Exoplanetary Atmospheres (2.4 MB .pdf) |
| Amanda Hendrix | JPL | Current Questions in UV Planetary Science (17.5 MB .pdf) |
| Matthew Beasley | CU-Boulder | Optical Systems for the UV (14.5 MB .pdf) |
| Oswald Siegmund | UC Berkeley | Advances in microchannel plates and photocathodes for photon counting detectors (2.7 MB .pdf) |
| Bruce Woodgate | NASA GSFC | GaN Photocathodes and EBCMOS Detectors for UV Astronomy (9 MB .pdf) |
| Patrick Morrissey | Caltech | Ultraviolet Detectors for Low Surface Brightness Astronomy (11.6 MB .pdf) |
| Edoardo Charbon | Delft University of Technology | Single-Photon Imaging: Myth and Reality (129 MB .pdf) |
| Shadi Shahedipour | State University of New York-Albany | Photon Detectors: Gallium Nitride Based Device Overview (4.1 MB .pdf) |
| Lis Nanver | Delft University of Technology | PureB silicon photodiode detectors for DUV/VUV/EUV light and low-energy electrons (7.7 MB .pdf) |
| Ben Mazin | UC Santa Barbara | Optical Lumped Element MKIDs (4.3 MB .pdf) |
