Dr. Benjamin C. Platt Profile

Dr. Benjamin C. Platt

Senior Engineer at Thirty Meter Telescope

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Proceedings Article | 23 July 2008 Paper

Advancement of the segment support system for the Thirty Meter Telescope primary mirror

Eric Williams, Curtis Baffes, Terry Mast, Jerry Nelson, Benjamin Platt, R. J. Ponchione, Eric Ponslet, Shahriar Setoodeh, Mark Sirota, Vince Stephens, Larry Stepp, Alan Tubb

Proceedings Volume 7018, 701810 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.790176

KEYWORDS: Distortion, Mirrors, Monochromatic aberrations, Convolution, Glasses, Telescopes, Interfaces, Thermography, Actuators, Photovoltaics

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Proceedings Article | 14 August 2006 Paper

Measurement of the non-common vertex error of a double corner cube

Alireza Azizi, Martin Marcin, Douglas Moore, Steve Moser, John Negron, Eung-Gi Paek, Daniel Ryan, Alex Abramovici, Paul Best, Ian Crossfield, Bijan Nemati, Tim Neville, B. Platt, Leonard Wayne

Proceedings Volume 6292, 629203 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.696088

KEYWORDS: Metrology, Prisms, Motion measurement, Interferometers, Interferometry, Beam splitters, Autocollimators, Data modeling, Heterodyning, Laser metrology

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Proceedings Article | 27 June 2006 Paper

Multiple guide star tomography demonstration at Palomar Observatory

V. Velur, R. Flicker, B. Platt, M. Britton, R. Dekany, M. Troy, J. Roberts, J. Shelton, J. Hickey

Proceedings Volume 6272, 62725C (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671666

KEYWORDS: Stars, Wavefronts, Adaptive optics, Wavefront sensors, Tomography, Cameras, Statistical analysis, Error analysis, Sensors, Thirty Meter Telescope

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Proceedings Article | 13 September 2005 Paper

Performance of the optical communication adaptive optics testbed

Jennifer Roberts, Mitchell Troy, Malcolm Wright, Stephen Guiwits, Siddarayappa Bikkannavar, Gary Brack, Vachik Garkanian, Dean Palmer, Benjamin Platt, Tuan Truong, Kent Wallace, Keith Wilson

Proceedings Volume 5892, 589212 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.618072

KEYWORDS: Adaptive optics, Wavefronts, Turbulence, Zoom lenses, Error analysis, Calibration, Optical communications, Sensors, Servomechanisms, Signal detection

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Proceedings Article | 20 August 2005 Paper

Gold coatings for cube-corner retro-reflectors

Svetlana Dligatch, Mark Gross, Roger Netterfield, Nathan Pereira, Benjamin Platt, Bijan Nemati

Proceedings Volume 5870, 587007 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.613286

KEYWORDS: Gold, Scattering, Optical properties, Ultrasonics, Optical coatings, Retroreflectors, Ions, Scatter measurement, Particles, Reflectivity

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Proceedings Article | 19 August 2005 Paper

Precision metrology of dihedral angle error in prisms and corner cubes for the Space Interferometry Mission

Jan Burke, Bozenko Oreb, Benjamin Platt, Bijan Nemati

Proceedings Volume 5869, 58690W (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.613591

KEYWORDS: Prisms, Wavefronts, Fringe analysis, Interferometers, Mirrors, Interferometry, Error analysis, Phase shifts, Retroreflectors, Collimation

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 1995 Paper

Novel adaptive optics (technique) without a guide star

Ben Platt, Natalie Clark

Proceedings Volume 2566, (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.217363

KEYWORDS: Diffraction gratings, Wavefront sensors, Fourier transforms, Optical correlators, Optical filters, Adaptive optics, Wavefronts, Image processing, Sensors, CCD cameras

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Proceedings Article | 2 June 1995 Paper

Multispectral sensor calibration system design and performance

John Hickey, Ben Platt, Daniel Olive, Bruce Spiering

Proceedings Volume 2469, (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.210630

KEYWORDS: Calibration, Sensors, Modulation transfer functions, Content addressable memory, Mirrors, Sensor calibration, Data analysis, Monochromators, Data acquisition, Control systems

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Conference Committee Involvement (1)

Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology VIII

2 August 2004 | Denver, Colorado, United States

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