The first paper in this list is a patent for a phase measuring device that was invented by Dan Shaddock, Brent Ware, Robert Spero and myself. After that are papers that I authored while at JPL.


U.S. Patent 7,511,469 for the NASA/JPL/LISA phasemeter
"Cryogenic Performance of Piezo-Electric Actuators for Opto-Mechanical Applications," Peter G. Halverson, Tyler J. Parker and Marie Levine, SPIE Optics and Photonics, 26-30 August 2007, San Diego, California
"The JPL cryogenic dilatometer: measuring the thermal expansion coefficient of aerospace materials," Peter G. Halverson, Tyler J. Parker, Paul Karlmann, Kerry J. Klein, Robert D. Peters, Marie Levine, ITCC 29/ITES 17 (International Thermal Conductivity Conference 29/International Thermal Expansion Symposium 17), 24-27 June 2007, Birmingham, Alabama
"Measurement of wavefront phase delay and optical density in apodized coronagraphic mask materials," Halverson, Peter G.; Ftaclas, Micheal Z.; Balasubramanian, Kunjithapatham; Hoppe, Daniel J.; Wilson, Daniel W., Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets II, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5905, pp. 473-482 (2005).
"Search for general relativistic effects in table-top displacement metrology," Peter G. Halverson, Daniel R. Macdonald, Rosemary T. Diaz, 2004 CLEO/IQEC, San Francisco, May 16-21 2004
"Progress towards picometer accuracy laser metrology for the space interferometry mission - update for ICSO 2004," Peter G. Halverson, Oscar Alvarez-Salazar, Alireza Azizi, Frank Dekens, Bijan Nemati, Feng Zhao, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Space Optics (ICSO 2004), 30 March - 2 April 2004, Toulouse, France, ESA SP-554, 2004, p. 515 - 522
"Signal processing for order 10 pm accuracy displacement metrology in real-world scientific applications," Peter G. Halverson, Frank M Loya, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Space Optics (ICSO 2004), 30 March - 2 April 2004, Toulouse, France, ESA SP-554, 2004, p. 571 - 577
"Signal processing and testing of displacement metrology gauges with picometre-scale cyclic nonlinearity," Peter G. Halverson and Robert E. Spero, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt., Volume 4, Issue 6, pp. S304-S310 (2002).
"Characterization of Picometer Repeatability Displacement Metrology Gauges," Peter G. Halverson, Lawrence S. Azevedo, Rosemary T. Diaz, Robert E. Spero, Proceedings of ODIMAP III, the 3rd Topical Meeting on Optoelectronic Distance/Displacement Measurements and Applications, 20-22 September 2001, Pavia, Italy, pp. 63-68.
"Techniques for the reduction of cyclic errors in laser metrology gauges for the Space Interferometry Mission," Peter G. Halverson, Feng Zhao, Robert Spero, Stuart Shaklan, Oliver P. Lay, Serge Dubovitsky, Rosemary T. Diaz, Ray Bell, Lawrence Ames, Kalyan Dutta, Proceedings of the ASPE 2001 Annual Meeting, 10-15 November, Crystal City Virginia. pp.103-106 (2001)
"Progress towards picometer accuracy laser metrology for the Space Interferometry Mission," Peter G. Halverson, Andreas Kuhnert, Jennifer Logan, Martin Regehr, Stuart Shaklan, Robert Spero, Feng Zhao, Tallis Chang, Edouard Schmidtlin, Roman Gutierrez, Thomas R. VanZandt, Jeffrey Yu, proceedings of the International Conference of Space Optics ICSO 2000, 5-7 December 2000, Toulouse, France, pp. 417-428.
"A Multichannel Averaging Phasemeter for Picometer Precision Laser Metrology," Peter G. Halverson, Donald R. Johnson, Andreas Kuhnert, Stuart B. Shaklan, Robert Spero, Optical Engineering for Sensing and Nanotechnology (ICOSN '99), 16-18 June 1999, Yokohama, Japan, Proceedings of the SPIE Volume 3740, pp 646-649
Complete list of Halverson publications while at JPL