Dr. John I. Capone Profile

Dr. John I. Capone

at NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr.

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Publications (16)

Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Poster + Paper

HARMONI & ELT: prototyping and testing the spectrograph TMA collimator alignment procedure

Matthias Tecza, Edgar Castillo-Dominguez, James Kariuki, Elliot Meyer, Eduard Muslimov, Zeynep Ozer, Niranjan Thatte, Fraser Clarke, John Capone

Proceedings Volume 13096, 130964U (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019873

KEYWORDS: Collimators, Wavefronts, Wavefront errors, Mirrors, Optical alignment, Prototyping, Spectrographs, Interferometers

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Paper

Cryogenic refractive indices for S-FPL55, S-LAL8, and S-BAH28 glasses for the HARMONI visible camera

Manuel A. Quijada, Douglas B. Leviton, John Capone, Matthias Tecza

Proceedings Volume 12188, 121882L (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630451

KEYWORDS: Refractive index, Temperature metrology, Glasses, Cryogenics, Cameras, Prisms, Thermal optics, Data modeling, Optics manufacturing, Optical design

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Proceedings Article | 17 December 2020 Poster + Paper

HARMONI science path optics: predicting and analysing the expected as-built performance with and end-to-end optical model

Matthias Tecza, Álvaro Menduiña-Fernández, David Henry, Hermine Schnetler, Fraser Clarke, Patrick Smith, Miguel Cagigas García, Alexandre Jeanneau, John Capone

Proceedings Volume 11447, 1144732 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562587

KEYWORDS: Performance modeling, Visible radiation, Spectrographs, Zemax, Large telescopes, Adaptive optics, Optical design, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 15 December 2020 Poster + Paper

HARMONI: first light spectroscopy for the ELT: simulating the alignment of a three-mirror anastigmat

J. Capone, D. Freeman, J. Lynn, J. Kariuki, M. Tecza, A. Hidalgo

Proceedings Volume 11447, 114472N (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561519

KEYWORDS: Spectroscopy, Spectrographs, Mirrors, Systems modeling, Device simulation, Visible radiation, Alignment procedures, Collimators, Interferometers, Manufacturing

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Proceedings Article | 14 December 2020 Poster + Paper

HARMONI - first light spectroscopy for the ELT: spectrograph camera lens mounts

Andrea Hidalgo, James Kariuki, James Lynn, Wui Cheng, Adam Lowe, Fehim Taha Bagci, Fraser Clarke, Ian Lewis, Ian Tosh, Hermine Schnetler, John Capone, Matthias Tecza, Michael Booth, Myriam Rodrigues, Nicholas Cann, Niranjan Thatte, Zeynep Ozer, Tom Foster

Proceedings Volume 11451, 1145139 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560334

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Spectrographs, Spectroscopy, Visible radiation, Cryogenics, Prototyping, Near infrared, Adhesives, Spectral resolution, Adaptive optics

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

RIMAS: testing, and categorization of grism spectral performance

Joseph Durbak, Alexander Kutyrev, Sylvain Veilleux, Gregory Mosby, Gennadiy Lotkin, Jillian Kunze, Kenichi Sakai, John Capone, Vicki Toy, Paul Kuzmenko

Proceedings Volume 11451, 114515Y (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561876

KEYWORDS: Imaging spectroscopy, Spectroscopy, Near infrared, Telescopes, Infrared spectroscopy, Mirrors, Image resolution, Spectroscopes, Infrared imaging, Infrared radiation

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

HARMONI: first light spectroscopy for the ELT: instrument final design and quantitative performance predictions

Niranjan Thatte, Ian Bryson, Fraser Clarke, Vanessa Ferraro-Wood, Thierry Fusco, David Le Mignant, Dave Melotte, Benoit Neichel, Hermine Schnetler, Matthias Tecza, Santiago Arribas, Alejandro Crespo, Alberto Estrada Piqueras, Miriam García García, Miguel Pereira Santaella, Javier Piqueras López, Jeremy Blaizot, Nicholas Bouché, Didier Boudon, Diane Chapuis, Eric Daguise, Karen Disseau, Matthieu Guibert, Aurelien Jarno, Alexandre Jeanneau, Florence Laurent, Magali Loupias, Jean-Emmanuel Migniau, Laure Piqueras, Alban Remillieux, Johan Richard, Arlette Pécontal-Rousset, Lisa Bardou, Madeline Close, Rishi Deshmukh, Sofia Dimoudi, Marc Dubbledam, David King, Simon Morris, Timothy Morris, Kieran O'Brien, Lazar Staykov, Mark Swinbank, Matthew Townson, Eddy Younger, Matteo Accardo, Domingo Avarez Mendez, Ralf Conzelmann, Sebastian Egner, Elizabeth George, Frederic Gonté, Joshua Hopgood, Derek Ives, Leander Mehrgan, Eric Mueller, Celine Peroux, Joel Vernet, Angel Alonso Sanchez, Battaglia Giuseppina, Miguel Cagigas, José Miguel Delgado, Patricia Fernandez Izquierdo, Ana Belén Fragoso López, Maria Begoña Garcia-Lorenzo, Elvio Hernandez Suarez, José Miguel Herreros Linares, Enrique Joven, Roberto López, Yolanda Martín Hernando, Evencio Mediavilla, Ana Monreal, José Peñate Castro, Jose Luis Rasilla, Rafael Rebolo, Luis Fernando Rodríguez-Ramos, Afrodisio Vega Moreno, Teodora Viera, Alexis Carlotti, Jean-Jacques Correia, Alain Delboulbe, Sylvain Guieu, Adrien Hours, Zoltan Hubert, Laurent Jocou, Yves Magnard, Thibaut Moulin, Fabrice Pancher, Patrick Rabou, Eric Stadler, Thierry Contini, Marie Larrieu, Yan Fantei-Caujolle, Daniel Lecron, Sylvain Rousseau, Olivier Beltramo-Martin, William Bon, Anne Bonnefoi, William Ceria, Elodie Choquet, Carlos Correia, Anne Costille, Kjetil Dohlen, Franck Ducret, Kacem El-Hadi, Benoit Epinat, Romain Fetick, Jean-Luc Gach, Olivier Groussin, Issa Jaafar, Joel Le Merrer, Marc Llored, Felipe Pedreros, Edgard Renault, Patrice Sanchez, Arthur Vigan, Pascal Vola, Caroline Lim, Nicola Vedrenne, Cyril Petit, Jean-Francois Sauvage, Taha Bagci, Nick Cann, Jorge Chao Ortiz, Ellis Elliott, Tea Seitis, Ian Tosh, Josh Anderson, Martin Black, Charlotte Bond, Andy Born, Kenny Campbell, Neil Campbell, James Carruthers, William Cochrane, Naomi Dobson, Chris Evans, Angus Gallie, Oscar Gonzalez, Joel Harman, David Henry, William Humphreys, Tom Louth, Chris Miller, David Montgomery, John Murray, Norman O'Malley, Lynn Ritchie, Ruben Sanchez-Janssen, Noah Schwartz, Patrick Smith, Stuart Watt, Martyn Wells, Sandi Wilson, Kayhan Gultekin, Mario Mateo, Michael Meyer, Monica Valluri, Munadi Ahmad, Michael Booth, John Capone, Michele Cappellari, David Gooding, Kearn Grisdale, Andrea Hidalgo, James Kariuki, Ian Lewis, Adam Lowe, Jim Lynn, Alvaro Menduina, Zeynep Ozer, Roy Preece, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Myriam Rodrigues, Laurence Routledge

Proceedings Volume 11447, 114471W (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562144

KEYWORDS: Spectroscopes, Adaptive optics, Visible radiation, Spectrographs, Large telescopes, Spectral resolution, Modes of laser operation, Tomography, Quantitative analysis, Computer simulations

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

HARMONI: First light spectroscopy for the ELT: final design and assembly plan of the spectrographs

Z. Ozer, H. Schnetler, F. T. Bagci, M. Booth, M. Brock, N. Cann, J. Capone, J. Chao Ortiz, G. Dalton, N. Dobson, T. Foster, A. Hidalgo Valadez, J. Kariuki, I. Lewis, A. Lowe, J. Lynn, M. Rodrigues, I. Tosh, F. Clarke, M. Tecza, N. Thatte

Proceedings Volume 11447, 114472H (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560359

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Iterated function systems, Spectroscopes, Near infrared, Spectral resolution, Visible radiation, Optomechanical design

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Proceedings Article | 24 September 2018 Paper

Near infrared throughput and stray light measurements of diffraction gratings for ELT-HARMONI

John Capone, Myriam Rodrigues, Fraser Clarke, Andrew Earle, Thomas Foster, Andrea Hidalgo Valadez, Ian Lewis, James Lynn, Kieran O'Brien, Matthias Tecza, Niranjan Thatte, Ian Tosh

Proceedings Volume 10706, 1070644 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2310086

KEYWORDS: Diffraction gratings, Stray light, Signal detection, Sensors, Monochromators, Modulation, Optical testing, Integrating spheres, Spectrographs, Near infrared

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Proceedings Article | 12 July 2018 Paper

The HARMONI/ELT spectrographs

M. Rodrigues, J. Capone, A. Earle, T. Foster, A. Hidalgo, I. Lewis, J. Lynn, K. O'brien, I. Tosh, E. George, M. Accardo, D. Alvarez, R. Conzelmann, J. Hopgood, F. Clarke, H. Schnetler, M. Tecza, N. Thatte

Proceedings Volume 10702, 107029M (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313396

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Near infrared, Cameras, Mirrors, Collimators, Infrared cameras, Spectral resolution

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Paper

Building the HARMONI engineering model

T. Foster, J. Capone, A. Earle, A. Hidalgo, I. Lewis, J. Lynn, K. O'Brien, M. Rodrigues, I. Tosh, B. Watkins, F. Clarke, H. Schnetler, M. Tecza, N. Thatte

Proceedings Volume 10702, 10702A9 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313747

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Mirrors, Interferometers, Cameras, Prototyping, Infrared cameras, Collimators, Cryogenics, Sensors, Computer aided design

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

H2RG detector characterization for RIMAS and instrument efficiencies

Vicki Toy, Alexander Kutyrev, John Capone, Thomas Hams, F. Robinson, Gennadiy Lotkin, Sylvain Veilleux, Samuel Moseley, Neil Gehrels, Stuart Vogel

Proceedings Volume 9908, 99083I (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2230181

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Infrared telescopes, Imaging spectroscopy, Telescopes, Atmospheric optics, Infrared telescopes, Spectroscopes, Space telescopes, Cameras, Signal detection, Astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 22 July 2016 Paper

Technique for diamond machining large ZnSe grisms for the Rapid Infrared/Imager Spectrograph (RIMAS)

Paul Kuzmenko, Steve Little, Alexander Kutyrev, John Capone

Proceedings Volume 9912, 99120C (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231834

KEYWORDS: Infrared radiation, Diamond machining, Zinc, Spindles, Diffraction, Diamond, Germanium, Diffraction gratings, Spectral resolution, Gamma radiation

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Proceedings Article | 8 July 2014 Paper

Cryogenic optical systems for the rapid infrared imager/spectrometer (RIMAS)

John Capone, David Content, Alexander Kutyrev, Frederick Robinson, Gennadiy Lotkin, Vicki Toy, Sylvain Veilleux, Samuel Moseley, Neil Gehrels, Stuart Vogel

Proceedings Volume 9147, 914736 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055503

KEYWORDS: Space telescopes, Telescopes, Near infrared, Cameras, Spectroscopes, Optical filters, Optical design, Infrared imaging, Infrared radiation, Photometry

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Proceedings Article | 8 July 2014 Paper

Detector driver systems and photometric estimates for RIMAS

Vicki Toy, Alexander Kutyrev, Eric Lyness, Marius Muench, Frederick Robinson, Gennadiy Lotkin, John Capone, Sylvain Veilleux, Samuel Moseley, Neil Gehrels, Stuart Vogel

Proceedings Volume 9147, 91472W (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054767

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Stars, Spectroscopy, Atmospheric modeling, Imaging spectroscopy, Interference (communication), Astronomy, Infrared imaging, Gamma radiation, LabVIEW

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Proceedings Article | 27 September 2013 Paper

The development and analysis of cryogenic optical systems for the rapid infrared imager/spectrometer

John Capone, David Content, Ori Fox, Neil Gehrels, Alexander Kutyrev, Gennadiy Lotkin, Samuel Moseley, Frederick Robinson, Vicki Toy, Sylvain Veilleux, Stuart Vogel

Proceedings Volume 8863, 88630D (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2023123

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Tolerancing, Spectroscopes, Imaging spectroscopy, Sensors, Optical filters, Infrared radiation, Telescopes, Refractive index, Lens design

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