Contacts
Instrumentation Scientist
Research interests
- Adaptive Optics systems for astronomy and optical communications.
- Astronomical Instrumentation.
- Space Situational Awareness.
- Laser Guide Stars for Adaptive Optics.
- Laser systems for satellite communications.
Projects
- Researcher, Adaptive Optics for Space Debris Tracking and Pushing
- Supervisor, 3D printed water-cooled deformable mirror for high power lasers.
- Supervisor, AITC Adaptive Optics Test Bench
- Supervisor, Double stars observations at Mount Stromlo Observatory for satellite laser communications
- Supervisor, Ground Layer Adaptive Optics system for the 8-metre Subaru Telescope in Hawaii
- Supervisor, Investigating Spatial Light Modulators and Pyramid Wavefront Sensing
- Supervisor, Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for deep space optical communications: The Moon and beyond.
- Supervisor, Meta-surface lenslet arrays for adaptive optics
- Martinez Rey, N, Kish, S, Bennet, F et al. 2023, 'AO-enhanced Quantum Communications with the ANU Optical Ground Station', International Conference on Space Optics - ICSO 2022, ed. Kyriaki Minoglou, Nikos Karafolas, Bruno Cugny, SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Online.
- Copeland, M, Bennet, F, Birch, M et al. 2023, 'A Transmitter and Receiver for Lunar Communications on the ANU Optical Ground Station', Free-Space Laser Communications XXXV (SPIE LASE), ed. Hamid Hemmati, Bryan S. Robinson, SPIE, Online, p. 8.
- Martinez Rey, N, Ramos, L, Alonso, A et al. 2022, 'Plenoptic wavefront sensor for free-space optical communications', Free-Space Laser Communications XXXIV, ed. Hamid Hemmati, Bryan S. Robinson, SPIE, USA.
- Negrin, J, Ramos, L, Torras, J et al. 2022, 'Transportable ground station for QKD using adaptive optics', Free-Space Laser Communications XXXIV, ed. Hamid Hemmati, Bryan S. Robinson, SPIE, USA.
- Martinez Rey, N, Torras, J, Alonso, A et al. 2022, 'Enabling efficient quantum communications with adaptive optics', Free-Space Laser Communications XXXIV, ed. Hamid Hemmati, Bryan S. Robinson, SPIE, USA.
- Ramos, L, Estruch, J, Martinez Rey, N et al. 2022, 'Design considerations for a Transportable Optical Ground Station with Adaptive Optics', 2022 IEEE International Conference on Space Optical Systems and Applications (ICSOS), IEEE, United States, pp. 281-287.
- Birch, M, Martinez Rey, N, Bennet, F et al. 2022, 'The Mount Stromlo Optical Communication Ground Station', 2022 IEEE International Conference on Space Optical Systems and Applications (ICSOS), IEEE, United States, pp. 134-137.
- Hassan Krishna, S, Martinez Rey, N, Rigaut, F et al. 2022, 'Mesospheric sodium layer variations with continuous laser modulation and effects on adaptive optics system', Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1-15.
- Martinez Rey, N, D'Orgeville, C, Grosse, D et al. 2021, 'Debris collision mitigation from the ground using laser guide star adaptive optics at mount Stromlo observatory', Journal of Space Safety Engineering, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 106-113.
- Bonaccini Calia, D, Centrone, M, Pinna, E et al. 2021, 'CaNaPy: SatComm LGS-AO experimental platform with laser uplink pre-compensation', International Conference on Space Optics-ICSO 2020, ed. Bruno Cugny, Zoran Sodnik, and Nikos Karafolas, SPIE, United States.
- Martinez Rey, N & Ramos, L 2020, 'The use of sodium layer density anisotropies to fully measure the atmospheric turbulence, including tip-tilt, focus, and higher order aberrations', SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation Adaptive Optics Systems VII, ed. Laura Schreiber, Dirk Schmidt, Elise Vernet, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Bellingham, WA, United States.
- Martinez Rey, N, D'Orgeville, C, Ashworth, D et al. 2020, 'Australia's first laser guide star: Design and telescope integration at Mount Stromlo Observatory', SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation Adaptive Optics Systems VII, ed. Laura Schreiber, Dirk Schmidt, Elise Vernet, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Bellingham, WA, United States.
- Martinez Rey, N, Ramos, L & Sodnik, Z 2020, 'Uplink wavefront corrector system: From paper to reality', Optics Express, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 5886-5897.
- Martinez Rey, N, Ramos, L & Sodnik, Z 2018, 'Toward the uplink correction: Application of adaptive optics techniques on free-space optical communications through the atmosphere', Optical Engineering, vol. 57, no. 7.
- Martinez Rey, N & Ramos, L 2018, 'Solar MCAO with a single sensor: Simulating tomographic reconstruction with the plenoptic camera', Adaptive Optics Systems VI 2018, ed. L. Close, L. Schreiber, D. Schmidt, SPIE, United States.
- Martinez Rey, N, Ramos, L & Sodnik, Z 2018, 'Uplink correction demonstrator: Test bench and experimental results', Adaptive Optics Systems VI 2018, ed. L. Close, L. Schreiber, D. Schmidt, SPIE, United States.
- Martinez Rey, N, Ramos, L & Sodnik, Z 2017, 'Simulating the performance of adaptive optics techniques on FSO communications through the atmosphere', SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, ed. Jeremy P. Bos, Alexander M. J. van Eijk, Stephen M. Hammel, SPIE, Bellingham, Washington, pp. 1-9.
- Martinez Rey, N, Ramos, L, Montoya, L et al. 2017, 'The plenoptic camera as wavefront sensor for the VTT solar telescope', 5th Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, AO4ELT 2017, ed. K Daniel, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain, pp. 1-8.
- Nuñez Cagigal, M, Tubio Araujo, O, Vilela, R et al. 2016, 'GTC adaptive optics hardware electronics', SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016, ed. M Lystrup, G G Fazio, H A MacEwen, SPIE, United States, pp. 1-11.
