Don Gavel

512 total citations
27 papers, 336 citations indexed

About

Don Gavel is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Don Gavel has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 336 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 14 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 11 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Don Gavel's work include Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (21 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (11 papers) and Advanced optical system design (9 papers). Don Gavel is often cited by papers focused on Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (21 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (11 papers) and Advanced optical system design (9 papers). Don Gavel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Chile. Don Gavel's co-authors include Bruce Macintosh, M.M. Michaelis, Claude Phipps, Elizabeth George, James P. Reilly, C. Ho, Herbert W. Friedman, W. Priedhorsky, G. Albrecht and Julia W. Evans and has published in prestigious journals such as Optics Letters, Icarus and Comptes Rendus Physique.

In The Last Decade

Don Gavel

26 papers receiving 311 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Don Gavel United States 9 172 152 101 101 82 27 336
Herbert W. Friedman United States 10 250 1.5× 140 0.9× 96 1.0× 258 2.6× 61 0.7× 40 454
Peter Bizenberger Germany 9 204 1.2× 151 1.0× 42 0.4× 131 1.3× 134 1.6× 56 471
Céline d’Orgeville Australia 11 246 1.4× 101 0.7× 40 0.4× 197 2.0× 52 0.6× 55 308
T. Matsumura Japan 12 64 0.4× 176 1.2× 75 0.7× 107 1.1× 113 1.4× 69 432
Scott Severson United States 11 211 1.2× 129 0.8× 36 0.4× 120 1.2× 91 1.1× 34 298
Lynn G. Seppala United States 10 127 0.7× 47 0.3× 18 0.2× 144 1.4× 91 1.1× 42 346
Dawei Liu China 9 97 0.6× 30 0.2× 39 0.4× 49 0.5× 42 0.5× 23 208
K. Avicola United States 7 257 1.5× 225 1.5× 24 0.2× 208 2.1× 84 1.0× 25 476
J. Resnick United States 8 49 0.3× 67 0.4× 37 0.4× 27 0.3× 12 0.1× 12 249
G. R. Chapman United States 11 212 1.2× 20 0.1× 71 0.7× 309 3.1× 28 0.3× 19 355

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Fields of papers citing papers by Don Gavel

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Don Gavel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Don Gavel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Don Gavel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Don Gavel. Don Gavel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hartung, Markus, Bruce Macintosh, Naru Sadakuni, et al.. (2016). On-sky low order non-common path correction of the GPI Calibration Unit.
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Gavel, Don, Renate Kupke, Daren Dillon, et al.. (2014). Opto-mechanical design of ShaneAO: the adaptive optics system for the 3-meter Shane Telescope. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9148. 91483B–91483B. 2 indexed citations
3.
Poyneer, Lisa, et al.. (2014). Progress towards wind predictive control on ShaneAO: test bench results. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9148. 91481Z–91481Z. 1 indexed citations
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Gavel, Don, et al.. (2013). Performance assessment of a candidate architecture for real-time woofer-tweeter controllers: simulation and experimental results. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8617. 86170A–86170A. 3 indexed citations
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Morzinski, Katie M., et al.. (2008). Empirical measurement of MEMS stroke saturation, with implications for woofer-tweeter architectures. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7015. 70153N–70153N. 1 indexed citations
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Grigsby, Bryant, Brian C. Baumann, Don Gavel, et al.. (2008). ViLLaGEs: opto-mechanical design of an on-sky visible-light MEMS-based AO system. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7018. 701841–701841. 6 indexed citations
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Macintosh, Bruce, James Graham, D. M. Palmer, et al.. (2007). Adaptive optics for direct detection of extrasolar planets: the Gemini Planet Imager. Comptes Rendus Physique. 8(3-4). 365–373. 18 indexed citations
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Macintosh, Bruce, James Graham, D. M. Palmer, et al.. (2006). The Gemini Planet Imager. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 75 indexed citations
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Morzinski, Katie M., Julia W. Evans, Scott Severson, et al.. (2006). Characterizing the potential of MEMS deformable mirrors for astronomical adaptive optics. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6272. 627221–627221. 20 indexed citations
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Severson, Scott, Brian Bauman, Daren Dillon, et al.. (2006). The extreme adaptive optics testbed at UCSC: current results and coronagraphic upgrade. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6272. 62722J–62722J. 8 indexed citations
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Ellerbroek, Brent L., M. C. Britton, Richard G. Dekany, et al.. (2005). Adaptive optics for the Thirty Meter Telescope. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5903. 590304–590304. 10 indexed citations
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Evans, Julia W., Katie M. Morzinski, Scott Severson, et al.. (2005). Extreme adaptive optics testbed: high contrast measurements with a MEMS deformable mirror. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5905. 59050Y–59050Y. 13 indexed citations
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Baker, K. L., E. A. Stappaerts, S. C. Wilks, et al.. (2004). Performance of a phase-conjugate engine implementing a finite-bit phase correction. Optics Letters. 29(9). 980–980. 6 indexed citations
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Baker, K. L., E. A. Stappaerts, Don Gavel, et al.. (2004). Breadboard testing of a phase-conjugate engine with an interferometric wave-front sensor and a microelectromechanical systems-based spatial light modulator. Applied Optics. 43(30). 5585–5585. 6 indexed citations
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Baker, K. L., et al.. (2004). Design and progress toward a multiconjugate adaptive optics system for distributed aberration correction. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5553. 200–200. 1 indexed citations
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Gibbard, S. G., Bruce Macintosh, Don Gavel, et al.. (2004). Speckle imaging of Titan at 2 microns: surface albedo, haze optical depth, and tropospheric clouds 1996–1998. Icarus. 169(2). 429–439. 25 indexed citations
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Macintosh, Bruce, James Graham, Lisa Poyneer, et al.. (2003). Extreme adaptive optics planet imager: XAOPI. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5170. 272–272. 7 indexed citations
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Minden, Monica L., Don Gavel, K. L. Baker, et al.. (2003). Breadboard Testing of a Phase Conjugate Engine with an Interferometric Wave-Front Sensor and a MEMS-Based Spatial Light Modulator. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 43(30). 1 indexed citations
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Macintosh, Bruce, et al.. (1997). Volcanoes on Io: High-Resolution Infrared Images Using Speckle Interferometry with the Keck Telescope. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 29. 745. 1 indexed citations
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Max, C. E., et al.. (1996). Observations of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact on Jupiter from Lick Observatory using a high resolution speckle imaging camera. 1 indexed citations

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