Remembering James Breckinridge
SPIE Fellow and Past President James Breckinridge passed away 12 June at the age of 83. A long-time Member of SPIE, he served on the Symposium and Award Committees, was program chair for SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instruments, and served on the editorial board for the SPIE Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. To celebrate his life's work and legacy, SPIE welcomes you to read his research for free. Read more about James' life and career at SPIE.org, or visit his SPIE Profile.
Innovative aperture segmentations control image plane diffraction
(Proceedings of SPIE, 2021)
Mueller matrix maps of dichroic filters reveal polarization aberrations
(Proceedings of SPIE, 2020)
Design of the vacuum high contrast imaging testbed for CDEEP, the Coronagraphic Debris and Exoplanet Exploring Pioneer
(Proceedings of SPIE, 2020)
Topological pupil segmentation and point spread function analysis for large aperture imaging systems
(Proceedings of SPIE, 2020)
Physical optics analysis of image formation in science instruments
(Proceedings of SPIE, 2020)
ExoPlanet Optics: conceptual design processes for stealth telescopes
(Proceedings of SPIE, 2019)
Numerical modeling of the Habex coronagraph
(Proceedings of SPIE, 2019)
Novel designs for minimizing diffraction effects of large segmented mirror telescopes
(Proceedings of SPIE, 2018)
HabEx polarization ray trace and aberration analysis
(Proceedings of SPIE, 2018)
Terrestrial exoplanet coronagraph image quality polarization aberrations in Habex♦,#
(Proceedings of SPIE, 2018)
The role of narrow-angle forward surface scatter and particulate scatter in exoplanet exploration
(Proceedings of SPIE, 2018)
Diffraction analysis of large segmented mirror concepts for exoplanet exploration
(Proceedings of SPIE, 2018)
Exoplanet telescope diffracted light minimized: the pinwheel-pupil solution
(Proceedings of SPIE, 2018)
A 4-m evolvable space telescope configured for NASA's HabEx Mission: the initial stage of LUVOIR
(Proceedings of SPIE, 2017)
Innovative telescope architectures for future large space observatories
(J. of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 2016)
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