Dr. Daniel Russell Cremons Profile

Dr. Daniel Russell Cremons

at NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr

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Proceedings Article | 5 June 2024 Presentation + Paper

A small all-range LIDAR for topographic mapping from orbit and guidance during descent and touchdown

Xiaoli Sun, Daniel Cremons, Erwan Mazarico, David Smith, Mark Storm, Richard Utano, Jacob Hwang, Xung Dang, James Abshire, Jeff Beck

Proceedings Volume 13049, 1304905 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3012734

KEYWORDS: LIDAR, Receivers, Sensors, Avalanche photodetectors, Pulse signals, Optical amplifiers, Signal detection, Mercury cadmium telluride, Fiber lasers

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Proceedings Article | 23 October 2018 Paper

A spectrographic receiver for laser spectrometers

Macey Sandford, Paul Lucey, Xiaoli Sun, Daniel Cremons

Proceedings Volume 10780, 107800J (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2324818

KEYWORDS: Receivers, LIDAR, Sensors, Spectrographs, Avalanche photodetectors, Visible radiation, Spectrometers, Pulsed laser operation, Infrared sensors, Luminescence

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Proceedings Article | 9 October 2018 Presentation + Paper

Development of a Mars lidar (MARLI) for measuring wind and aerosol profiles from orbit

Daniel Cremons, James Abshire, Graham Allan, Xiaoli Sun, Haris Riris, Michael Smith, Scott Guzewich, Anthony Yu, Floyd Hovis

Proceedings Volume 10791, 1079106 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2325408

KEYWORDS: Wind measurement, Doppler effect, Mars, Aerosols, Telescopes, LIDAR, Atmospheric particles, Clouds, Fabry–Perot interferometers, Backscatter

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Our understanding of the Mars atmosphere and the coupled atmospheric processes that drive its seasonal cycles is limited by a lack of observation data, particularly measurements that capture diurnal and seasonal variations on a global scale. As outlined in the 2011 Planetary Science Decadal Survey and the recent Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) Goals Document, near-polar-orbital measurements of height-resolved aerosol backscatter and wind profiles are a high-priority for the scientific community and would be valuable science products as part of a next-generation orbital science package. To address these needs, we have designed and tested a breadboard version of a direct detection atmospheric wind lidar for Mars orbit. It uses a single-frequency, seeded Nd:YAG laser ring oscillator operating at 1064 nm (4 kHz repetition rate), with a 30-ns pulse duration amplified to 4 mJ pulse energy. The receiver uses a Fabry-Perot etalon as part of a dual-edge optical discrimination technique to isolate the Doppler-induced frequency shift of the backscattered photons. To detect weak aerosol backscatter profiles, the instrument uses a 4x4 photon-counting HgCdTe APD detector with a 7 MHz bandwidth and < 0.4 fW/Hz^1/2noise equivalent power. With the MARLI lidar breadboard instrument, we were able to measure Doppler shifts continuously between 1 and 30 m/s by using a rotating chopper wheel to impart a Doppler shift to incident laser pulses. We then coupled the transmitter and receiver systems to a laser ranging telescope at the Goddard Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory (GGAO) to measure backscatter and Doppler wind profiles in the atmosphere from the ground. We measured a 5.3 ± 0.8 m/s wind speed from clouds in the planetary boundary layer at a range of 4 to 6 km. This measurement was confirmed with a range-over-time measurement to the same clouds as well as compared to EMC meteorological models. Here we describe the lidar approach and the breadboard instrument, and report some early results from ongoing field experiments.

Proceedings Article | 28 September 2013 Paper

Diffraction contrast as a sensitive indicator of femtosecond sub-nanoscale motion in ultrafast transmission electron microscopy

Daniel Cremons, Karl Schliep, David Flannigan

Proceedings Volume 8845, 884507 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2023145

KEYWORDS: Diffraction, Transmission electron microscopy, Aluminum, Pulsed laser operation, Ultrafast phenomena, Femtosecond phenomena, Optical spheres, Crystals, Visualization, Temporal resolution

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