Dr. Richard S. Woolf Profile

Dr. Richard S. Woolf

at US Naval Research Lab

SPIE Involvement:

Conference Program Committee | Author

Proceedings Article | 5 October 2023 Presentation + Paper

On-orbit results of the GAGG radiation instruments

Lee Mitchell, Bernard Phlips, Richard Woolf, Anthony Hutcheson, Wiley Johnson, Mary Johnson-Rambert

Proceedings Volume 12678, 1267815 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2672563

KEYWORDS: Gamma radiation, Silicon photomultipliers, Crystals, Space operations, Particles, Spectroscopy, Radiation effects, Scintillators, Spaceflight missions

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Proceedings Article | 3 October 2023 Presentation + Paper

Neutron radiation detection instrument-1A (NeRDI-1A)

Anthony Hutcheson, Bernard Phlips, W. Neil Johnson, Lee Mitchell, Joshua Wolf, Mary Johnson-Rambert, Joseph Davis, Theodore Finne, Richard Woolf, Rose Perea

Proceedings Volume 12696, 1269603 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2682621

KEYWORDS: Silicon photomultipliers, Scintillators, Equipment, Design and modelling, Gamma radiation, Space operations, Data acquisition

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SPIE Journal Paper | 28 October 2022

All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer mission concept

Regina Caputo, Marco Ajello, Carolyn Kierans, Jeremy Perkins, Judith L. Racusin, Luca Baldini, Matthew Baring, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Eric Burns, Nicholas Cannady, Eric Charles, Rui Curado da Silva, Ke Fang, Henrike Fleischhack, Chris Fryer, Yasushi Fukazawa, J. Eric Grove, Dieter Hartmann, Eric Howell, Manoj Jadhav, Christopher Karwin, Daniel Kocevski, Naoko Kurahashi, Luca Latronico, Tiffany Lewis, Richard Leys, Amy Lien, Lea Marcotulli, Israel Martinez-Castellanos, Mario Nicola Mazziotta, Julie McEnery, Jessica Metcalfe, Kohta Murase, Michela Negro, Lucas Parker, Bernard Phlips, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Soebur Razzaque, Peter Shawhan, Yong Sheng, Tom Shutt, Daniel Shy, Clio Sleator, Amanda Steinhebel, Nicolas Striebig, Yusuke Suda, Donggeun Tak, Hiro Tajima, Janeth Valverde, Tonia Venters, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Richard Woolf, Eric Wulf, Haocheng Zhang, Andreas Zoglauer

JATIS, Vol. 8, Issue 04, 044003, (October 2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.8.4.044003

KEYWORDS: Gamma radiation, Observatories, Photons, Space operations, Sensors, Polarization, Pulsars, Physics, Spatial resolution, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 31 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

Development of the balloon-borne Galactic Explorer Coded Aperture Mask and Compton Telescope (GECCO) prototype

Richard Woolf, A. Moiseev, Aleksey Bolotnikov, Nicholas Cannady, Gabriella Carini, John Krizmanic, John Mitchell, Bernard Phlips, Makoto Sasaki, Daniel Shy, Lucas Smith, David Thompson, Eric Yates, Klaus Ziock, Andreas Zoglauer

Proceedings Volume 12181, 121812J (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630681

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spatial resolution, Sensors, Coded apertures, Prototyping, Crystals, Gamma radiation, Data acquisition, Photomasks

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Proceedings Article | 31 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

Characterization of Glowbug: a gamma-ray telescope for bursts and other transients

Richard Woolf, J. Eric Grove, Michael Briggs, J. Mitch Davis, Theodore Finne, W. Neil Johnson, Matthew Kerr, Daniel Kocevski, Colleen Wilson-Hodge

Proceedings Volume 12181, 121811O (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630543

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Crystals, Gamma radiation, Electronics, Analytical research, Stars, Calibration, Telescopes, Scintillation

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Proceedings Article | 31 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

Development of the ComPair gamma-ray telescope prototype

Daniel Shy, Carolyn Kierans, Nicolas Cannady, Regina Caputo, Sean Griffin, J. Eric Grove, Elizabeth Hays, Emily Kong, Nicholas Kirschner, Iker Liceaga-Indart, Julie McEnery, John Mitchell, A. Moiseev, Lucas Parker, Jeremy Perkins, Bernard Phlips, Makoto Sasaki, Adam Schoenwald, Clio Sleator, Jacob Smith, Lucas Smith, Sambid Wasti, Richard Woolf, Eric Wulf, Anna Zajczyk

Proceedings Volume 12181, 121812G (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628811

KEYWORDS: Gamma ray imaging, Gamma-ray astronomy, Astronomical instrumentation, Gamma radiation, Photons, Telescopes, Muons, Silicon

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Proceedings Article | 24 August 2021 Presentation + Paper

GAGG Radiation Instrumentation (GARI)

Lee Mitchell, Bernard Phlips, Richard Woolf, Theodore Finne, Anthony Hutcheson, W. Neil Johnson, Mary Johnson-Rambert, Rose Perea

Proceedings Volume 11821, 1182105 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2598588

KEYWORDS: Space sensors, Gamma-ray astronomy, Scintillation, Homeland security, Sensors, Crystals, Gamma radiation, Space operations, Data acquisition, Aerospace engineering, Spectroscopes, Scintillators

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