Dr. Paul F. McManamon
President
SPIE Involvement:
Conference Program Committee | Author | Instructor
Publications (67)

SPIE Journal Paper | 10 August 2024 Open Access
OE, Vol. 63, Issue 08, 085102, (August 2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.OE.63.8.085102
KEYWORDS: LIDAR, Fiber optic gyroscopes, Standards development, Roads, Reflectivity, Laser safety, Safety, Optical engineering, Target detection, Point clouds

Proceedings Article | 27 June 2024 Open Access Presentation
Proceedings Volume 13165, 1316509 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3034407

Proceedings Article | 10 June 2024 Presentation
Proceedings Volume 13049, 130490J (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3013450
KEYWORDS: LIDAR, Manufacturing, Unmanned vehicles, Standards development, Collision avoidance

Proceedings Article | 5 June 2024 Presentation + Paper
Proceedings Volume 13049, 130490M (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3013526
KEYWORDS: Sensors, LIDAR, Signal detection, Photodetectors, Background noise, Dark current, Avalanche photodetectors, Pulse signals, Pulsed laser operation, Negative feedback

Proceedings Article | 5 June 2024 Presentation + Paper
Proceedings Volume 13049, 130490N (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3022637
KEYWORDS: Beam steering, LIDAR, Prisms, Optical components, Lenses, Space operations

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Conference Committee Involvement (23)
Autonomous Systems: Sensors, Processing, and Security for Ground, Air, Sea, and Space Vehicles and Infrastructure 2025
13 April 2025 | Orlando, Florida, United States
Autonomous Systems: Sensors, Processing, and Security for Ground, Air, Sea, and Space Vehicles and Infrastructure 2024
22 April 2024 | National Harbor, Maryland, United States
Autonomous Systems: Sensors, Processing and Security for Ground, Air, Sea and Space Vehicles and Infrastructure 2023
2 May 2023 | Orlando, Florida, United States
Autonomous Systems: Sensors, Processing and Security for Ground, Air, Sea and Space Vehicles and Infrastructure 2022
4 April 2022 | Orlando, Florida, United States
Autonomous Systems: Sensors, Processing and Security for Ground, Air, Sea and Space Vehicles and Infrastructure 2021
12 April 2021 | Online Only, Florida, United States
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Course Instructor
SC649: Optical Phased Array Design & Implementation
This course provides the attendee with knowledge of optical phased array technology, design, and implementation. Optical phased array technology will allow revolutionary conformal apertures that steer optical systems with no moving parts. This technology will revolutionize laser communication, laser sensing, laser countermeasures, and laser weapons. In the longer term it will also revolutionize passive optical systems such as hyperspectral sensors. The course focuses on liquid crystal based approaches to implementing one dimension at a time, space fed, optical phased arrays. Methods of extending the size of optical phased array devices through combining sub-apertures are also discussed, as well as the potential for combining optical phased arrays with RF phased arrays. Course notes will be provided.
SC1033: Optical Phased Array Technologies and Systems
This course is an introduction to Optical Phased Arrays and their applications in active electro-optical systems, including high energy laser systems, long range laser imaging and laser communications. The course will develop an understanding of high resolution imaging using multiple sub-apertures, high resolution laser beam projection using multiple sub-apertures, optical phased array beam steering, phased array beam propagation, adaptive optics as applied to phased arrays, and modeling of phased array systems. Phased array component technologies to be covered will include fiber laser sources, high and low bandwidth imaging cameras, beam transport in fibers, non-mechanical beam steering elements, and other system elements. Some systems issues discussed will include system efficiencies, optical isolation for transmitters and imagers, acquisition, tracking and pointing (ATP), phased array fire control, and system weight and volume estimation.
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