David A. Content

1.0k citations

75 papers · 364 indexed · h-index 10

Impact in

Instrumentation top 5%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Surfaces, Coatings and Films top 10%
- Optical Coatings and Gratings

Papers in ⓘ

Instrumentation 18
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 18
Surfaces, Coatings and Films 15
- Optical Coatings and Gratings 15

Co-authors: Takeshi Namioka (2 shared papers)Masato Koike (1 shared paper)William W. Zhang (13 shared papers)Timo T. Saha (14 shared papers)John P. Lehan (10 shared papers)Alden S. Jurling (5 shared papers)William Podgorski (7 shared papers)Robert Petre (12 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems (1 paper)Journal of the Optical Society of America A (1 paper)MRS Proceedings (1 paper)Applied Optics (5 papers)Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE (56 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Germany

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David A. Content

69 papers receiving 343 citations

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1	Properties and characteristics of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope H4RG-10 detectors Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems ·Gregory Mosby, Bernard J. Rauscher, C. S. Bennett, E. S. Cheng, Stephanie Cheung, A. Cillis, David A. Content, Dave Cottingham, Roger Foltz, J. Gygax, Robert Hill, J. W. Kruk, Jon Mah, Lane Meier, Christopher J. Merchant, Laddawan Miko, E. C. Piquette, Augustyn Waczynski, Yiting Wen	2020	32
2	Geometric theory of the ellipsoidal grating Applied Optics ·Takeshi Namioka, Masato Koike, David A. Content	1994	30
3	Development of lightweight x-ray mirrors for the Constellation-X mission Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·William W. Zhang, David A. Content, S. J. Henderson, John P. Lehan, (unknown), Timo T. Saha, Stephen L. O’Dell, W. D. Jones, William Podgorski, Paul B. Reid	2004	20
4	Multilayer resonant subwavelength gratings: effects of waveguide modes and real groove profiles Journal of the Optical Society of America A ·Leonid I. Goray, Ivan G. Kuznetsov, Sergey Sadov, David A. Content	2006	15
5	PICTURE: a sounding rocket experiment for direct imaging of an extrasolar planetary environment Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Christopher B. Mendillo, Brian Hicks, T. Cook, Thomas G. Bifano, David A. Content, Benjamin F. Lane, B. M. Levine, D. M. Rabin, Shanti Rao, Rocco Samuele, Edouard Schmidtlin, Michael Shao, J. Kent Wallace, S. Chakrabarti	2012	15
6	Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope [WFIRST]: telescope design and simulated performance Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Renaud Goullioud, David A. Content, Gary Kuan, James D. Moore, Z. Chang, Eric Sunada, Juan Villalvazo, J. Hawk, Nerses V. Armani, Eric L. Johnson, Cory Powell	2012	11
7	Aberration corrected aspheric gratings for far ultraviolet spectrographs: conventional approach Applied Optics ·David A. Content, Catherine Trout, Pam Davila, Mark Wilson	1991	10
8	The ACADIA ASIC - detector control and digitization for the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Eric J. Siskind, Steven D. Mann, Jing Chen, Atilla Askarov, Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz, Edward Leong, Amber Goodwin, Decosta Lindsay, Dino Rossetti, Jonathan Mah, E. S. Cheng, Laddawan Miko, Harry Culver, Edward J. Wollack, David A. Content, Markus Loose, Brian Smith, Greg Alkire, Atul Joshi, Daniel P. Kelly	2018	9
9	Constellation-X spectroscopy X-ray telescope (SXT) Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Robert Petre, William W. Zhang, David A. Content, Timo T. Saha, Jeff Stewart, Jason Hair, Diep Nguyen, William Podgorski, William R. Davis, Mark D. Freeman, Lester M. Cohen, Mark L. Schattenburg, Ralf K. Heilmann, Yanxia Sun, Craig R. Forest	2003	9
10	Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) slitless spectrometer: design, prototype, and results Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Qian Gong, David A. Content, Margaret Z. Dominguez, Thomas J. Emmett, Ulf Griesmann, John G. Hagopian, J. W. Kruk, Catherine T. Marx, Bert A. Pasquale, Thomas Wallace, A. L. Whipple	2016	9
11	Aberration-corrected aspheric gratings for far-ultraviolet spectrographs: holographic approach Applied Optics ·Pam Davila, David A. Content, Catherine Trout	1992	9
12	Wide field instrument preliminary design for the Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·David A. Content, Nerses V. Armani, C. L. Baker, Clifton E. Jackson, Duncan M. Kahle, Jeffrey W. Kruk, John P. Lehan, M. Melton, Eric Mentzell, Joseph J. Miko, David J. Palace, Bert A. Pasquale, Hume Peabody, Brian S. Smith, W. F. Smith, Jeffrey W. Stewart, David Vaughnn, Augustyn Waczynski, Thomas Wallace	2013	8
13	Optical design and predicted performance of the WFIRST phase-b imaging optics assembly and wide field instrument NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) ·Bert A. Pasquale, Thomas M. Casey, Catherine T. Marx, Guangjun Gao, Nerses V. Armani, David A. Content, John G. Hagopian, Alden S. Jurling, Clifton E. Jackson, Alice Liu, A. L. Whipple, Jacob J. Murray	2018	8
14	Constellation-X spectroscopy x-ray telescope optical assembly pathfinder image error budget and performance prediction Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·William Podgorski, Jay A. Bookbinder, David A. Content, William N. Davis, Mark D. Freeman, Jason Hair, Scott M. Owens, Robert Petre, Paul B. Reid, Timo T. Saha, Jeffrey W. Stewart, William W. Zhang	2004	8
15	Optical design of the WFIRST-AFTA wide-field instrument Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Bert A. Pasquale, David A. Content, J. Kruk, David Vaughnn, Qian Gong, Joseph Howard, Alden S. Jurling, Lenward Seals, Eric Mentzell, Nerses V. Armani, Gary Kuan	2014	8
16	Optical Design of WFIRST/AFTA Wide-field Instrument Bert A. Pasquale, David A. Content, J. W. Kruk, David Vaughnn, Qian Gong, Joseph M. Howard, Alden S. Jurling, Eric A. Mentzell, Nerses V. Armani, Gary Kuan	2014	8
17	On-orbit optical performance of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Charles W. Bowers, B. E. Woodgate, Randy A. Kimble, M. E. Kaiser, T. R. Gull, S. B. Kraemer, G. Hartig, David A. Content, Dennis Ebbets, David Michika, Joseph Sullivan, Robert A. Woodruff, Murk J. Bottema, Don J. Lindler, P. Plait, Clive Standley, Nicholas R. Collins, R. H. Cornett, (unknown), E. M. Malumuth, Richard D. Robinson	1998	6
18	<title>Diffraction grating groove analysis used to predict efficiency and scatter performance</title> Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·David A. Content	1999	6
19	Constellation-X SXT optical alignment Pathfinder 2: design, implementation, and alignment Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Scott M. Owens, Jason Hair, Jeffrey W. Stewart, Robert Petre, William W. Zhang, William Podgorski, Paul Glenn, David A. Content, Timo T. Saha, Giriraj Nanan	2004	5
20	Design and fabrication of refractive nulls for testing the segmented mirrors of the Constellation-X spectroscopy x-ray telescope (SXT) Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·John P. Lehan, Theo Hadjimichael, David A. Content, W. W. Zhang	2005	5

About David A. Content

David A. Content is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Radiation, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, having authored 75 papers that have together received 364 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (39 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (18 papers), Optical Coatings and Gratings (15 papers), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (14 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (12 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (12 papers), Optical Systems and Laser Technology (10 papers) and Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (79 citations), Surfaces, Coatings and Films (86 citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (138 citations), Radiation (62 citations) and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (168 citations). David A. Content has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Takeshi Namioka, Masato Koike, William W. Zhang, Timo T. Saha, John P. Lehan, Alden S. Jurling, William Podgorski, Robert Petre, Leonid I. Goray and J. W. Kruk. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, MRS Proceedings, Applied Optics and Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE.

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