Mr. Richard L. Butler Profile

Richard L. Butler

at NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Presentation + Paper

The Black Hole Explorer: astrophysics mission concept engineering study report

Eliad Peretz, Peter Kurczynski, Michael Johnson, Janice Houston, Tirupati Kumara Sridharan, Jade Wang, Peter Galison, Ronald Gamble, Daniel Marrone, Scott Noble, Gary Melnick, Leonid Petrov, Hannah Rana, Kari Haworth, Sheperd Doeleman, Sara Issaoun, Shahar Hadar, Alexandru Lupsasca, Edward Tong, Kazunori Akiyama, Ranjani Srinivasan, Dan Boroson, Guangning Yang, Tiffany Hoerbelt, Jeffrey Small, Mareki Honma, Bryan Bilyeu, Ed Canavan, Katia Shtyrkova, Robert Lafon, Lenny Paritsky, Laura Sinclair, Mark Silver, Leonid Gurvits, Yuri Kovalev, Robert Lehmensiek, Hua Jiao, Lindy Blackburn, Alexandra Brosius, Rick Butler, Andrew Chael, Dominic Chang, Koushik Chatterjee, Peter Cheimets, Daniel D'Orazio, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Vincent Fish, Garret Fitzpatrick, Charles Gammie, Zachary Gelles, Michael Hecht, Jens Kauffmann, Jared Lucey, Chung-Pei Ma, Mark Matsumura, Daniel Palumbo, Dominic Pesce, Jeff Piepmeier, Christopher Roberts, Freek Roelofs, Paul Tiede, Jaye Verniero, Maciek Wielgus, Ed Wollack, George Wong, Kelsey Gilchrist, Kayla Carmical, Andrew Lewis, Maya Wertheim, Keshet Shavit

Proceedings Volume 13092, 130922F (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019010

KEYWORDS: Antennas, Engineering, Telescopes, Laser frequency, Design, Oscillators, Optical clocks, Data transmission, Optical communications, Clocks

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Presentation + Paper

ORCAS Keck mission and instrument development

Eliad Peretz, Peter Wizinowich, Eduardo Marin, Richard Butler, Bert Pasquale, Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer, Scott Lilley, Luke Gers, Shui Hung Kwok, Jason Chin, Sam Ragland, Ed Wetherell, Brett Smith, John O'Meara, Marc Kassis, Greg Aldering, Susana Deustua, Rogier Windhorst, Christian Marois, Saul Perlmutter, Sara Seager, Breann Sitarski, Guillaume Filion, Jean Thomas Landry, Étienne Gauvin, J. Fowler, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Eric Nielsen, Imke de Pater, Peter Plavchan, Steph Sallum, Shobita Satyapal, John Mather, Peter Kurczynski, Kayla Carmical, Jack Grossman, Andrew Lewis, Maya Wertheim, Vivian Palmer, Keshet Shavit, Kevin Hall

Proceedings Volume 13096, 130960M (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018920

KEYWORDS: Adaptive optics, Stars, Telescopes, Image segmentation, Equipment, Asteroids, Calibration, Space operations, Exoplanets, Spatial resolution

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Proceedings Article | 12 March 2024 Presentation + Paper

NASA's laser communications relay demonstration (LCRD) experiment program: characterization and initial operations

David Israel, Bernard Edwards, Richard Butler, John Moores, Sabino Piazzolla, Jonathan Woodward, Alan Hylton, Nic Du Toit, Lena Braatz

Proceedings Volume 12877, 1287705 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3008354

KEYWORDS: Relays, Adaptive optics, Space operations, Optical turbulence, Optical communications, Atmospheric optics, Laser communications, Data communications, Satellites, Modulation, Acquisition tracking and pointing

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Proceedings Article | 15 March 2023 Presentation + Paper

Early results from NASA’s laser communications relay demonstration (LCRD) experiment program

David Israel, Bernard Edwards, Richard Butler, John Moores, Sabino Piazzolla, Nic du Toit, Lena Braatz

Proceedings Volume 12413, 1241303 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2655481

KEYWORDS: Relays, Adaptive optics, Optical communications, Optical turbulence, Atmospheric optics, Channel projecting optics, Atmospheric propagation, Single mode fibers, Laser communications, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 27 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

The Event Horizon Explorer mission concept

Peter Kurczynski, Michael Johnson, Sheperd Doeleman, Kari Haworth, Eliad Peretz, Tirupati Kumara Sridharan, Byran Bilyeu, Lindy Blackburn, Don Boroson, Alexandra Brosius, Richard Butler, Dave Caplan, Koushik Chatterjee, Peter Cheimets, Daniel D'Orazio, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Peter Galison, Ronald Gamble, Shahar Hadar, Tiffany Hoerbelt, Hua Jiao, Jens Kauffmann, Robert Lafon, Chung-Pei Ma, Gary Melnick, Nathan Newbury, Scott Noble, Daniel Palumbo, Lenny Paritsky, Dominic Pesce, Leonid Petrov, Jeff Piepmeier, Christopher Roberts, Bryan Robinson, Curt Shieler, Jeffrey Small, Neal Spellmeyer, Paul Tiede, Jaye Verniero, Jade Wang, Maciek Wielgus, Ed Wollack, George Wong, Guangning Yang

Proceedings Volume 12180, 121800M (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630313

KEYWORDS: Space operations, Antennas, Spatial resolution, Astrophysics, Astronomical telescopes, Telescopes, Optical communications, Laser communications, Physics, Interferometry

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