Dr. Jonathan S. Kane Profile

Dr. Jonathan S. Kane

Senior Scientist at Solid State Scientific Corp

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Optical Design , Optical Manufacture , Infrared , Research , Zoom Lenses , Technical Management

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Kane has over 28 years of design and development experience, focused on imaging, infrared and hyperspectral systems including engineering oversight for full system from design to production. Kane is the founder of IrZoom, former owner of Computer Optics and formerly a research and development scientist atthe US Air Force Research Labs. Kane has worked in basic research, managed and overseen optical component manufacturing, designed and deposited optical coatings, and lead optical test at IrZoom and Computer Optics for over 20 years bringing an understanding of manufacturing requirement to the design process. Kane was awarded his BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and his Phd in Electro-Optics from Boston University. Kane is presently Chief Technology Officer at Clear Align LLC.

Proceedings Article | 14 May 2007 Paper

Methods for polishing large sapphire windows

Jonathan Kane, Brian Stuart

Proc. SPIE. 10316, Optifab 2007: Technical Digest

KEYWORDS: Polishing, Etching, Image segmentation, Surface roughness, Ion beams, Sapphire, Radium, Ion beam finishing, Magnetorheological finishing, Surface finishing

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Proceedings Article | 31 May 2005 Paper

Optically compensated zoom lens design in the infrared

Arthur Cox, Jonathan Kane

Proc. SPIE. 5783, Infrared Technology and Applications XXXI

KEYWORDS: Infrared imaging, Optical components, Monochromatic aberrations, Optical design, Lens design, Infrared radiation, Zoom lenses, Modulation transfer functions, Infrared technology, Infrared lenses

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Proceedings Article | 6 March 2002 Paper

Imaging objects in an opaque scattering medium

Jehad Khoury, Jonathan Kane, Peter Gianino, Philip Hemmer, Charles Woods

Proc. SPIE. 4734, Optical Pattern Recognition XIII

KEYWORDS: Signal to noise ratio, Doppler effect, Scattering, Opacity, Sensors, Crystals, Light scattering, Heterodyning, Homodyne detection, Doppler tomography

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SPIE Journal Paper | 1 January 2002

Demultiplexing and phase-locking via a self-pumped phase-conjugate mirror

Jehad Khoury, Jonathan Kane, Peter Gianino, Charles Woods

OE Vol. 41 Issue 01

KEYWORDS: Modulation, Holography, Multiplexing, Phase conjugation, Crystals, Phase shift keying, Mode locking, Holograms, Laser crystals, Four wave mixing

SPIE Journal Paper | 1 March 1998

Optical processing with feedback using smart-pixel spatial light modulators

Jonathan Kane, Thomas Kincaid, Philip Hemmer

OE Vol. 37 Issue 03

KEYWORDS: Positive feedback, Negative feedback, Optoelectronics, Spatial light modulators, Optical signal processing, Polarizers, Sensors, Modulators, Camera shutters, Polarization

SPIE Journal Paper | 1 January 1998

Near-optimal binary phase-only filter correlator for obscured inputs

Jehad Khoury, Peter Gianino, J. Kane, Charles Woods

OE Vol. 37 Issue 01

KEYWORDS: Phase only filters, Image filtering, Optical filters, Content addressable memory, Optical correlators, Distortion, Multiplexing, Optimal filtering, Fourier transforms, Computer simulations

Proceedings Article | 22 March 1996 Paper

Feedforward neural network using a liquid crystal smart pixel spatial light modulator

Jonathan Kane

Proc. SPIE. 2760, Applications and Science of Artificial Neural Networks II

KEYWORDS: Beam splitters, Electronics, Transparency, Sensors, Signal attenuation, Spatial light modulators, Liquid crystals, Integration, Neural networks, Neurons

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Proceedings Article | 28 August 1995 Paper

Demultiplexing and phase locking via self-pumped phase conjugate mirror

Jehad Khoury, Jonathan Kane, Charles Woods

Proc. SPIE. 2565, Optical Implementation of Information Processing

KEYWORDS: Phase conjugation, Mirrors, Phase modulation, Modulation, Mode locking, Crystals, Phase shift keying, Homodyne detection, Laser crystals, Four wave mixing

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SPIE Journal Paper | 1 March 1994

Edge enhancement techniques for improving the performance of binary phase-only filter pattern recognition devices

Jehad Khoury, Peter Gianino, Jonathan Kane, Charles Woods

OE Vol. 33 Issue 03

KEYWORDS: Phase only filters, Fourier transforms, Nonlinear filtering, Distortion, Content addressable memory, Computer simulations, Optical correlators, Optical filters, Pattern recognition, Image filtering

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Proceedings Article | 12 January 1993 Paper

Optoelectronic neural network utilizing a joint transform correlator

Marc Paquin, Jonathan Kane

Proc. SPIE. 1772, Optical Information Processing Systems and Architectures IV

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Image processing, Computing systems, Chromium, Spatial light modulators, Optoelectronics, Neural networks, Joint transforms, Optical correlators, Binary data

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Proceedings Article | 1 November 1991 Paper

Binary phase-only filter associative memory

Jonathan Kane, Philip Hemmer, Charles Woods, Jehad Khoury

Proc. SPIE. 1564, Optical Information Processing Systems and Architectures III

KEYWORDS: Signal to noise ratio, Optical filters, Mirrors, Holograms, Holography, Fourier transforms, Electronic filtering, Optical correlators, Content addressable memory, Phase only filters

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