Dr. David McDonald Profile

Dr. David McDonald

Vice President Engineering at Intune Technologies

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Proceedings Article | 3 June 2005 Paper

Novel FBG interrogation technique for achieving < 100 ne accuracies at remote distances > 70 km

Tom Farrell, Peter O'Connor, John Levins, David McDonald

Proceedings Volume 5826, (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.605394

KEYWORDS: Fiber Bragg gratings, Sensors, Tunable lasers, Signal attenuation, Receivers, Tunable filters, Temperature metrology, Rayleigh scattering, Laser scattering, Remote sensing

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Proceedings Article | 3 June 2005 Paper

10 Gb/sec transmission experiments with a separate 75 Mb/s FSK optical label

Tommy Mullane, David McDonald, Michael Todd

Proceedings Volume 5825, (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.605391

KEYWORDS: Frequency shift keying, Modulation, Tunable lasers, Networks, Channel projecting optics, Clocks, Eye, Control systems, Optical networks, Modulators

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Proceedings Article | 3 June 2005 Paper

Performance improvements of widely tunable lasers for multi gas species detection and analysis

Neil Ryan, David McDonald, Adrian Lavin

Proceedings Volume 5826, (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.605392

KEYWORDS: Tunable lasers, Absorption, Amplitude modulation, Laser applications, Gas lasers, Modulation, Fermium, Frequency modulation, Near infrared, Laser sources

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Proceedings Article | 20 December 2004 Paper

Tunable laser technology for sensing applications

Thomas Farrell, David McDonald

Proceedings Volume 5594, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.579886

KEYWORDS: Tunable lasers, Sensors, Laser applications, Tunable filters, Fiber Bragg gratings, Time division multiplexing, Light sources, Sensing systems, Laser sources, Receivers

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Proceedings Article | 9 June 2004 Paper

A new interrogation system for a large number of strain sensors using fiber Bragg grating for application in residential buildings

R. Garcia, S. Sales, Jose Capmany, W. Warzanskyj, David McDonald, M. Bastiani

Proceedings Volume 5502, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.566691

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Fiber Bragg gratings, Buildings, Tunable lasers, Wavelength division multiplexing, Temperature metrology, Reliability, Multiplexing, Humidity, High power lasers

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Proceedings Article | 27 August 2003 Paper

Full-coverage microsecond wavelength switching of a monolithic widely tunable laser, from any channel to any channel, over the entire C band on the ITU G.682 ITU grid

Tommy Mullane, David McDonald, Tom Farrell, John Dunne

Proceedings Volume 4876, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.467294

KEYWORDS: Switching, Tunable lasers, Terahertz radiation, Optical networks, Fabry–Perot interferometers, Transmitters, Photonics, Temperature metrology, Time metrology, Laser development

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Proceedings Article | 8 October 1998 Paper

Measurement and parameter extraction of semiconductor lasers: experiences of the pan-European action COST 240

David McDonald, Richard Schatz, Paolo Spano, James O'Gorman

Proceedings Volume 3415, (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.326630

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Proceedings Article | 30 May 1997 Paper

Gas sensing using IR laser diode sources

James O'Gorman, Vincent Weldon, David McDonald, Juan Perez-Camacho, Brian Corbett, John Hegarty

Proceedings Volume 3105, (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.276166

KEYWORDS: Semiconductor lasers, Absorption, Modulation, Gas lasers, Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, Signal detection, Gases, Spectroscopy, Laser spectroscopy, Laser applications

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SPIE Journal Paper | 1 December 1994

Broadband frequency generation using a multielectrode semiconductor laser: application to test and measurement

David McDonald, Seamus O'Leary, Mark Davis, Ronan O'Dowd

OE, Vol. 33, Issue 12, (December 1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/12.186378

KEYWORDS: Modulation, Semiconductor lasers, Amplitude modulation, Calibration, Photodetectors, Spectrum analysis, Interferometers, Sum-frequency generation, Laser stabilization, Heterodyning

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Conference Committee Involvement (2)

Optical Networks: Systems and Devices

6 April 2005 | Dublin, Ireland

Physics and Applications of Optoelectronic Devices

25 October 2004 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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