David O. Caplan

1.4k citations

73 papers · 936 indexed · h-index 17

Impact in

Instrumentation top 5%
- Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies
Electrical and Electronic Engineering top 5%
- Optical Wireless Communication Technologies
- Optical Network Technologies
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
- Advanced Photonic Communication Systems

Papers in

Instrumentation 11
- Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies 11
Electrical and Electronic Engineering 68
- Optical Network Technologies 40
- Optical Wireless Communication Technologies 34
- Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices 32
- Photonic and Optical Devices 24
- Advanced Photonic Communication Systems 19

Co-authors: M. L. Stevens Bryan S. Robinson John Carney Scott A. Hamilton Neal W. Spellmeyer D. M. Boroson Mark L. Stevens Robert J. Murphy
Journals: Optics Express (3 papers)Optics Letters (2 papers)IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (2 papers)Proceedings of the IEEE (1 paper)Optical Engineering (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States

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David O. Caplan

67 papers receiving 861 citations

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	Few-mode tracking for free-space optical (FSO) communications Joshua L. Proctor, Richard Garner, David O. Caplan, Lalit Kumar	2025	0
2	Design and performance of a 40W uplink laser transmitter for NASA’s O2O laser communications mission Katia Shtyrkova, Kuna Kanthasamy, 野原偏弘, Rahmad Rizal Wicaksono, Bryan Bedingfield, David O. Caplan, Daniel M. Murphy, Bryan S. Robinson	2025	0
3	High extinction ratio waveform generation using a directly modulated laser and transmissive fiber Bragg grating filter David O. Caplan, Meixuan Qian, Timo Virtanen	2025	0
4	High data rate laser communications for the Black Hole Explorer Jade Wang, Kousei Adachi, Don M. Boroson, David O. Caplan, Kathleen Riesing, Bryan S. Robinson, Curt Schieler, Michael D. Johnson, Noor Fariza Mohd Hasini, Kari Haworth, Janice Houston, Sara Issaoun, Daniel C. M. Palumbo, Zhao Xing-lou, Ranjani Srinivasan, M Miranda-Salazar, Daniel P. Marrone	2024	4
5	Nanosatellite optical downlink experiment: design, simulation, and prototyping Optical Engineering ·Itsuo Kodama i Teruhisa Tanabe, Cho Mun Aung Charnvorawongse, Отрощенко Александр Александрович, David O. Caplan, James R. Clark, Iñigo del Portillo, Jakov Tešović, L. G. Cutshaw, Kathryn Ify Enwere, たかし昼間, Ève Anne Bühler, J.C. Twichell, Kathleen Riesing, Марјан Петрески, Rohan R Ozarkar, Kerri Cahoy	2016	32
6	Silicon Photonic Filters for Compact High Extinction Ratio Power Efficient (CHERPe) Transmitters§ S. J. Spector, J.M. Knecht, R. T. Schulein, David O. Caplan	2015	2
7	A multi-rate DPSK modem for free-space laser communications Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Neal W. Spellmeyer, Christopher Browne, David O. Caplan, John Carney, Xin Yun Teoh, Andrew S. Fletcher, John J. Fitzgerald, Samad Nazemi, Morgan Krupa, Scott A. Hamilton, Hilda Hamley, Denise Pastore Lima, Robert J. Murphy, Robert Deliège, Itahashi Kazuo, T. Benisheva, J. Cejudo Grano de Oro	2014	21
8	Scalable modulator for frequency shift keying in free space optical communications Optics Express ·Shota, Bryan S. Robinson, David O. Caplan, John Carney, Don M. Boroson, F. Hakimi, Scott A. Hamilton, John D. Moores, Marius A. Albotǎ	2013	7
9	Design of a 40 Watt 1.55μm uplink transmitter for Lunar Laser Communications Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·David O. Caplan, John Carney, Robert Lafon, M. L. Stevens	2012	14
10	A Simple Alignment Technique for Consolidated Tri-State Multi-Rate Burst-Mode DPSK Transmitters J. Cejudo Grano de Oro, Hilda Hamley, Robert Deliège, Neal W. Spellmeyer, David O. Caplan, Larry Bolsch, Itahashi Kazuo, Scott A. Hamilton	2012	5
11	A Capacity-Based Approach to Receiver Sensitivity for Atmospheric Lasercom Systems Imaging and Applied Optics ·Andrew S. Fletcher, 王京齐, Muhd Aktar Mohd Tahir, D. M. Boroson, David O. Caplan, Scott A. Hamilton, Fatimat Kh. Dzamikhova, Bryan S. Robinson, Neal W. Spellmeyer	2011	4
12	Demonstration of Multi-Rate Thresholded Preamplified 16-ary Pulse-Position-Modulation Optical Fiber Communication Conference ·Neal W. Spellmeyer, Muhd Aktar Mohd Tahir, D. M. Boroson, David O. Caplan, Andrew S. Fletcher, Scott A. Hamilton, Robert J. Murphy, M. Kaiß, Robert Deliège, Bryan S. Robinson, Shota, R. T. Schulein, M. L. Stevens, J. Cejudo Grano de Oro	2010	21
13	Optical homodyne PSK demonstration of 1.5 photons per bit at 156 Mbps with rate-½ turbo coding Optics Express ·M. L. Stevens, David O. Caplan, Bryan S. Robinson, D. M. Boroson, Marco Cucco	2008	35
14	Demonstration of a 1550-nm photon-counting receiver with ≪ 0.5 detected photon-per-bit sensitivity at 187.5 Mb/s Matthew E. Grein, 博美奥田, Bryan S. Robinson, Marco Cucco, David O. Caplan, Mark L. Stevens, John Carney, Scott A. Hamilton, Don M. Boroson, Carsten Langrock, M. M. Fejer	2008	3
15	High-Sensitivity Demodulation of Multiple-Data-Rate WDM-DPSK Signals using a Single Interferometer David O. Caplan, M. L. Stevens, John Carney	2007	7
16	781 Mbit/s photon-counting optical communications using a superconducting nanowire detector Optics Letters ·Bryan S. Robinson, Andrew J. Kerman, Eric A. Dauler, Richard J. Barron, David O. Caplan, Mark L. Stevens, John Carney, Scott A. Hamilton, Joel K. W. Yang, Karl K. Berggren	2006	136
17	High-sensitivity multi-channel single-interferometer DPSK receiver Optics Express ·David O. Caplan, M. L. Stevens, John Carney	2006	13
18	High-sensitivity photon-counting communications using Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes Bryan S. Robinson, David O. Caplan, M. L. Stevens, Richard J. Barron, Eric A. Dauler, Scott A. Hamilton, K. A. McIntosh, J.P. Donnelly, Erik K. Duerr, S. Verghese	2005	4
19	Performance of high-rate high-sensitivity optical communications with forward error correction coding Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics ·David O. Caplan, Yinlong Xue, Robert J. Murphy, Neal W. Spellmeyer, M. L. Stevens, Andréas Beling	2004	8
20	Optical phase conjugation with gain in a bulk semiconductor Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·David O. Caplan	1995	1

About David O. Caplan

David O. Caplan is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biophysics and Aerospace Engineering, having authored 73 papers that have together received 936 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Optical Network Technologies (40 papers), Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (34 papers), Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (32 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (24 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (19 papers), Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies (11 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (8 papers) and Satellite Communication Systems (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (95 citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (786 citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (246 citations), Aerospace Engineering (122 citations) and Biophysics (27 citations). David O. Caplan has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include M. L. Stevens, Bryan S. Robinson, John Carney, Scott A. Hamilton, Neal W. Spellmeyer, D. M. Boroson, Mark L. Stevens, Robert J. Murphy, Eric A. Dauler and Richard J. Barron. Their work appears in journals such as Optics Express, Optics Letters, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Proceedings of the IEEE and Optical Engineering.

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