----------------------------------------------- ------ Jaren N. Ashcraft ---------------------- ----------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- ---------------------- Optical Scientist ------ ----------------------------------------------- ** About ** NASA Sagan Fellow, UC Santa Barbara Ph.D., M.S., Optical Sciences, University of Arizona B.S., Optical Engineering, University of Rochester curriculum vitae ** Contact ** (808)-854-7542 jashcraft@arizona.edu ** Research ** Polarization Aberrations in Astronomical Telescopes GSMTs I 2023 Gaussian Beamlet Decomposition for High-contrast Imaging 2024 | 2023 | JATIS Cover The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB) 2022a | 2022b The Versatile CubeSat Telescope 2021 ** Open-source Tools ** Poke: Ray-based Physical Optics 2023 | GH Repository | Docs Katsu: Mueller Matrices and Polarimetric Data Reduction GH Repository