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Jashcraf/README.md

Aloha kākou, I'm Jaren

I'm a NASA Hubble Fellow at UC Santa Barbara working in Dr. Max Millar-Blanchaer's Exopol Lab studying polarization and high-contrast imaging. I got my Ph.D. in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona working with Dr. Ewan Douglas, Dr. Daewook Kim, and Dr. A.J. Riggs on a NSTGRO Fellowship.

My primary research interests are in integrated physical optics modeling for high-contrast imaging, with a particular emphasis on linking ray traces with wave propagation, and polarization.

Software

  • Poke: An open-source ray-based physical optics platform that uses ray-tracing API's (Zemax, CODE V) to democratize ray data and add more physics to the optical modeling pipeline. (lead developer)
  • Katsu: An open-source polarimetry package with support for full Stokes and Mueller polarimeters that employ rotating retarders. (lead developer)
  • prysm: An open-source numerical optics package by Brandon Dube. (contributor)

Places I've Worked Before

  • Visiting Technologist @ NASA Goddard
  • Visiting Scholar @ W.M. Keck Observatory
  • Visiting Technologist @ NASA JPL
  • Visiting Technologist @ Subaru Telescope
  • NASA JPL Summer Internship Program
  • UH Hilo IfA REU
  • Akamai Workforce Initiative Intern (UC Santa Cruz, UH IfA Maui)
  • University of Rochester (UR Nano, Integrated Photonic Systems Lab, Thomas Brown's lab)

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  1. poke poke Public

    Poke (pronounced poh-keh) is a Polarization Ray Tracing and Gaussian Beamlet module for Python

    Jupyter Notebook 33 7

  2. katsu katsu Public

    Polarimetric Data Reduction and machine control for measuring the polarization of observatories

    Python 3