{"id":674,"date":"2018-11-12T02:27:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T02:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/?page_id=674"},"modified":"2024-01-06T01:01:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T01:01:39","slug":"remote-sensing-for-space-sciences-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/?page_id=674","title":{"rendered":"Optics Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are developing an optics laboratory for rapid prototyping and testing of instruments that have been developed and validated using numerical simulations. Once the performance of an instrument has been practically validated, the laboratory also serves as a testing and calibration facility for the field version of the instrument.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1487\" style=\"width: 5344px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/remote-sensing-for-space-sciences-laboratory\/img_20191014_143125675\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1487\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1487 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_20191014_143125675.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5344\" height=\"3006\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_20191014_143125675.jpg 5344w, http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_20191014_143125675-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_20191014_143125675-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_20191014_143125675-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graduate students Arturo Martinez, Daniele Calchetti and Caleb Abbott (left to right) building the first components of the ARES turbulence generator.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2117\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2117\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/?attachment_id=2117\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2117 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Dan_Johnns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graduate student Daniel Johns working with the upgraded ARES system (2023-2024)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our group has received two awards from the Department of Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nre.navy.mil\/education-outreach\/sponsored-research\/university-research-initiatives\/durip\">DURIP<\/a> program to build an advanced atmospheric simulator and testbed for the validation of novel methods for high-resolution imaging through atmospheric turbulence (<strong>ARES<\/strong>: a simulator for the <strong>A<\/strong>dvanced <strong>R<\/strong>econnaissance of <strong>E<\/strong>arth-orbiting <strong>S<\/strong>atellites).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1986\" style=\"width: 716px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/?attachment_id=1986\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1986 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ARES_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An early version of the ARES system configured for an experiment to study an AO-compensated uplink for ground-based optical communication with satellites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2118\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2118\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/?attachment_id=2118\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2118\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2118 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ARES_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The upgraded ARES system (2024)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are developing an optics laboratory for rapid prototyping and testing of instruments that have been developed and validated using numerical simulations. Once the performance of an instrument has been practically validated, the laboratory also serves as a testing and calibration facility for the field version of the instrument. Our group has received two awards &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/?page_id=674\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Optics Laboratory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1103,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-674","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/674\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.astro.gsu.edu\/~smj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}