Thomas A. Germer

Employment

• National Institute of Standards and Technology Physicist
  1992 - Present

Education

• Cornell University Ph.D.
  1988 - 1992
• Cornell University M.S.
  1985 - 1988
• University of California, Berkeley B.A.
  1981 - 1985

Projects & Funding

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Publications (138)

• Validated UV-C bidirectional reflectance distribution function measurements with a spectrophotometer directional reflectance module
  Applied Optics 2024 DOI: 10.1364/AO.527427
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• Linearizing the vertical scale of an interferometric microscope and its effect on step-height measurement
  Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties 2024 DOI: 10.1088/2051-672X/ad44bb
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• Spatial frequency domain Mueller matrix imaging
  Journal of Biomedical Optics 2022 DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.27.12.126003
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• Bidirectional reflectance capabilities of the NIST Robotic Optical Scattering Instrument
  Applied Optics 2021 DOI: 10.1364/AO.435117
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• Depolarization in diffusely scattering media
  Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE 2021 DOI: 10.1117/12.2577888
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• Spatial frequency domain Mueller matrix imaging
  Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE 2021 DOI: 10.1117/12.2576350
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• Spectropolarimetry of Primitive Phototrophs as Global Surface Biosignatures
  Astrobiology 2021 DOI: 10.1089/ast.2020.2272
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• Evolution of transmitted depolarization in diffusely scattering media
  Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision 2020 DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.390598
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• Modelling photovoltaic soiling losses through optical characterization
  Greg P. Smestad, Thomas A. Germer, Hameed Alrashidi +15 more
  Scientific Reports 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-56868-z
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• PySCATMECH: A Python interface to the SCATMECH library of scattering codes
  Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 2020 DOI: 10.1117/12.2568578
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• Scattering mechanism for quadratic evolution of depolarization
  Optics Letters 2020 DOI: 10.1364/OL.383215
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• Spectropolarimetry of primitive phototrophs as global surface biosignatures
  arXiv 2020
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• Classical polarimetry with a twist: A compact, geometric approach
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2019 DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ab1933
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• Classical polarimetry with a twist: A compact, geometric approach
  arXiv 2019
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• Structured illumination mueller matrix imaging
  Biomedical Optics Express 2019 DOI: 10.1364/BOE.10.002861
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• Uncertainty in global downwelling plane irradiance estimates from sintered polytetrafluoroethylene plaque radiance measurements
  Applied Optics 2019 DOI: 10.1364/AO.58.004497
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• Imaging linear and circular polarization features in leaves with complete Mueller matrix polarimetry
  Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2018.03.005
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• Maging linear and circular polarization features in leaves with complete mueller matrix polarimetry
  arXiv 2018
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• Polarized single-scattering phase function determined for a common reflectance standard from bidirectional reflectance measurements
  Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 2018 DOI: 10.1117/12.2305417
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• Scattering properties of ultrafast laser-induced refractive index shaping lenticular structures in hydrogels
  Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 2018 DOI: 10.1117/12.2290204
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