Mike Lampton's Web Site

email: mlampton at berkeley dot edu

  • Space Sciences Home Page
  • Lawrence Berkeley Lab Home Page
  • DESI Home Page
  • Stellar Software Home Page
  • FUEGO Home Page
  • About Space Sciences Lab (.PPT)
  • a current photo of myself
  • Space Telescope Project

  • A Critique of the Offner Spectrograph - v2 (.pdf)
  • Double Doublet Magnifiers-v4 (.pdf)
  • Double Doublet-v4 files (.zip)
  • Offner Spectrograph v1 (.pdf)
  • Offner Spectrograph v1 files (.zip)
  • Spectrograph Prisms v15 (.pdf)
  • Magnifiers and Turret
  • Spot Size Measures (.pdf)
  • Telecentric Flat Field Illumination (.pdf)
  • Five Contributors to Spot Size (.pdf)
  • SpotSize-v10.py
  • Magnifier Trade (.xlsx)
  • Disperser Trade (.xlsx)
  • Three Apochromatic Magnifiers - v6(.pdf)
  • Double Petzval Optics for Spectroscopy v16(.pdf)
  • FlatFieldIlumination (.pptx)
  • Reflective Magnifiers - v4(.pdf)
  • Impact of Non-Chief-Ray-Normal Images -v1(.xlsx)
  • Single-shot Actuators (.xlsx)
  • Telescope Mark 12 Final Daewook Kim Nov 2021 (.pdf)
  • Flip Mirror Concepts (.pdf)
  • ToricSurfaces-v2 (.pdf)
  • Offner Double Prism Spectrograph v1(.pdf)
  • Thermal Emission from the STP Primary Mirror v1(.pdf)
  • Cold Stops for Spectroscopy rev1(.pdf)
  • Packing Spectra onto a Detector rev6 (.pdf)
  • Packing Spectra onto a Detector files (.zip)
  • Distorted Spectra in IFU Spectrographs v3(.pdf)
  • Diffraction from Round and Square Lenslets v3(.pdf)
  • Prisms for Bent Spectrographs v13 (.pdf)
  • Front End Optics for the Supernova Spectrograph v3 (.pdf)
  • Tungsten Lamps for Continuum Calibration v7(.pdf)
  • Spectrograph Parts and Suppliers -Rev32(.xlsx)
  • Straight-Through Prisms for Spectroscopy rev4(.pdf)
  • Off Axis Mirrors as Collimators v1(.pdf)
  • Off-Axis Parabolic Mirrors as Field Magnifiers-v12(.pdf)
  • Flat-Field Illuminator Concepts-v4(.pdf)
  • Wavefront-Shack-Hartmann Sensors v.1(.pdf)
  • Waveferont-Differential OTF Sensors v.2(.pdf)
  • Wavefront Curvature Sensors v.3(.pdf)
  • 42 Slice Spectrometer v.1(.pdf)
  • PSF Statistics with Noisy Images v.14 (.pdf)
  • Spacecraft Attitude Control Dynamic Model (.pdf)
  • Point Spread Function Metrics (.xlsx)
  • Wavefront Error Evaluation (.pdf)
  • Wavefront Sensors for Astronomy(.pdf)
  • Tight Focus Tolerances (.pdf)
  • Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

  • DESI End-to-End Optical Simulator in Python (.pdf)
  • Focus and Alignment without Zernikes(.pdf)
  • Photo Album of DESI Assembly and Checkout(.pdf)
  • Point Spread Function Accuracy writeup (.pdf)
  • Point Spread Function Accuracy Python Code (.zip)
  • Guider Centroid Accuracy writeup (.pdf)
  • Guider Centroid Accuracy files (.zip)
  • Bias, Dark, Flat Frames for CCD/CMOS Calibration (.pdf)
  • Commissioning DESI Optical Distortions, v6, writeup (.pdf)
  • Commissioning DESI Optical Distortions, v6, files (.zip)
  • Star Centroid Statistics with Noise (.pdf)
  • DESI Optical Metrology, v9 (.pdf)
  • Modelling Corrector Distortion v5 (.pdf)
  • DESI Metrology using the Fiber View Camera v4 (.pdf)
  • Python and data files for Corrector Distortion v5 (.zip)
  • MultiProfile.jar
  • C2_ClearAperture (.pdf)
  • DESI: Signal to noise ratio with fibers (.pdf)
  • Midspatial Frequency Errors (.pdf)
  • FUEGO Wildfire System

  • OrbitMapper example graphic(.pdf)
  • OrbitMapper source code (.py)
  • Natural Disaster Count, 1980-2017 (.pdf)
  • FUEGO Mission Comparo Talk (.pdf)
  • FUEGO Mission Comparo Worksheet (.xlsx)
  • Airborne FUEGO (.pptx)
  • Airborne Microbolometer Arrays (.pdf)
  • FUEGO Concept 10Dec2013 (.pptx)
  • Microbolometer Arrays for Fire Detection (.pdf)
  • FUEGO: Fire Urgency Estimation from Geosynchronous Orbit
  • US Patent 9792500 Pennypacker et al.
  • Science and Engineering

  • Planck Law Derivation (.pdf)
  • Doomsday: Two Flaws (.pdf) arXiv
  • Doomsday: Simpson's Second Question (.pdf)
  • Information-driven Societies and Fermi's Paradox
  • Galactic Coordinate Transformations (.pdf)
  • Sky-to-FocalPlane writeup (.pdf)
  • Sky-to-FocalPlane files (.zip)
  • Apochromatic Doublet Magnifiers v3 (.pdf)
  • Parts list and suppliers for SNSE demonstrator (.xlsx)
  • Focus and Alignment Without Zernikes (.pdf)
  • Isolated Dual H-Bridge Motor Driver (.pdf)
  • Stepper Motor Translation Stage Roundup (.zip)
  • Arduino for Smooth-Stepping Motors (.pdf)
  • Cantilever Bimetal Thermal Actuator (.xlsx)
  • SNSE OAP Magnifier v2(.pdf)
  • SNSE OAP Magnifier Files v1(.zip)
  • Pupil Mirrors Drawing 200610a (.pdf)
  • Slicer Mirrors Drawing 200612b (.pdf)
  • Magnifier Mirrors Drawing 200612e (.pdf)
  • SNSE Mission Optical Design(.pdf)
  • Wide Field Magellan Corrector (.pdf)
  • Various Spectrometers (.pdf)
  • Accelerated Charge Paradox (.pdf)
  • Retrograde Notion (.pdf)
  • EUV Astronomy at Bowyer's 80th (.pdf)
  • Three-Mirror Off-Axis Anastigmats for CMB Surveys.pdf
  • Confocal Heat Pump Violates Second Law (.pdf)
  • Lampton ATLAS-1 (.pdf)
  • Lampton ATLAS-1 (.ppt)
  • Korsch Four Configurations (.pdf)
  • Dark Energy (.pdf)
  • Lampton et al Off-Axis Telescopes (.pdf)
  • Lampton et al Off-Axis Telescopes (.ppt)
  • Lampton et al Heliopause 304 Spectrometer Poster(.pdf)
  • Lampton et al Heliopause 304 Spectrometer SPIE (.pdf)
  • Gruntman et al Heliopause 304 Spectrometer SPIE (.pdf)
  • Lampton, Scientific American Nov 1981 (.pdf)
  • Lampton, US Patent 3965354, Resistive Anode (.pdf)
  • Lampton, US Patent 4395636, Wedge & Strip (.pdf)

  • Payload Specialist Astronaut Photos: STS-9, STS-25, STS-45

  • Official NASA Payload Specialist Photo
  • NASA Payload Specialist closeup
  • STS-9 Wikipedia
  • STS-9 Spacelab-1 Science Crew
  • STS-45 Wikipedia
  • ATLAS-1 Payload Crew in Aft Flight Deck
  • ATLAS-1 Payload Crew in Module
  • ATLAS-1 Payload Specialists with autographs
  • Dark Energy Space Mission Development

    WFIRST-A concept from: Levi,M., et al., 217th AAS 433.03 (2011)

    Artwork by Robin E. Lafever LBNL

  • Levi et al, WFIRST Science Yield (.pdf) arXiv 1105.0959
  • Some useful code....

    Roughly 300 papers on astronomy and space physics

    A few papers on space projects, detectors, electronics, math....

    Now for a bit of audio engineering....

    Let's not forget Hubble...

    Let's not forget Carl Friedrich Gauss

    Let's not forget Fingal...

    Let's not forget the greatest collegiate prank of all time not involving a cow...

    Let's not forget Xray Astronomy

    Let's not misspell "kluge"

    CHIPS Subsystem Photographs

    ISUAL Instrument aboard ROCSAT-2

  • Orbit View Tradeoff
  • IMAGE-MENA Instrument Photos

    IMAGE-MENA Performance

    IMAGE-FUV Team At Work

    IMAGE-FUV Spectroscopic Imager

    IMAGE-FUV WIC and GEO instruments

    IMAGE-FUV Main Electronics Package

    Recipes

    Wedding Guitar Gigs

  • Matt & Lindsay's Wedding, 111 Jennifer Lane, Alamo California 16 June 2007
  • Larry & Barbara's Wedding, 2130 Coastland Ave, San Jose California
  • Tate & Maya's Wedding, The Sea Ranch, California, 22 Sept 2012
  • Jim and Claire's Wedding, Botanical Gardens & Brazil Room, Berkeley California, 8 April 2013
  • Jen and Nate's Wedding, Wedgewood Wedding Center, Boulder Canyon, Colorado, 10 July 2015
  • A little music

    Acknowledgment