Dr. Zacarías Malacara Hernández

Personal information:

• Researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A. C. since 1980.
• Working group: Optical instrumentation.
• Interests in Astronomical instruments, color science and vision science.
• Former experience in Thin Films
• Electronic instrumentation
• Astronomical Photometry
• Ophthalmic lenses
• Optical testimg

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Recent publications:

2022

• José Hernández-Delgado, Zacarías Malacara-Hernández, Daniel Malacara-Doblado, Benito Vázquez-Dorrío, and Daniel Malacara Hernández "Local curvatures and its measurements of an optical surface or a wavefront: a review," Optical Engineering 61(5), 050901 (23 May 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.5.050901

2021

• José Hernández Delgado; Zacarías Malacara-Hernández; Daniel Malacara-Doblado; Daniel Malacara-Hernández "Curvature or Power Maps of an Optical Surface or a Wavefront", Optics Communications, Volume 495, 15 September ( 2021), 127083

2020

• Daniel Gómez-Tejada, Zacarías Malacara-Hernández, Daniel Malacara-Doblado, and Daniel Malacara-Hernández, "Zonal integration of circular Hartmann and Placido patterns with non- rotationally symmetric aberrations," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37, 1381-1389 (2020)

2019

• B. Mancilla-Escobar , Zacarias Malacaea-Hernandez , D. Malacara-Hernández KERATOMETER WITH TWO CIRCULAR LED ARRAYS: DESIGN, CHARACTERIZATION AND TESTING. OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS, Volume 445, 15 August 2019, Pages 171-181, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2019.04.028

2018

• B.Mancilla-EscobarZ.Malacara-Hernández y D.Malacara-Hernández. TWO DIMENSIONAL WAVEFRONT RETRIEVAL USING LATERAL SHEARING INTERFEROMETRY. Optics Communications, Volume 416, 1 June 2018, Pages 100-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2018.02.002
• Francisco JavierGantes-Nuñez Zacarías, Malacara-Hernández, Daniel Malacara-Doblado. ZONAL WAVEFRONT RECONSTRUCTION OF SHACK–HARTMANN AND HARTMANNPATTERNS WITH HEXAGONAL CELLS. Optics Communications, Volume 427, 15 November 2018, Pages 61-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2018.06.027

2017

• Alejandro Téllez-Quiñones, Daniel Malacara-Doblado, Zacarias Malacara-Hernández, David A. Gutiérrez-Hernández, and Daniel Malacara-Hernández. Transversal aberrations at arbitrary Hartmann-plane distances: application in the least-squares fitting of Hartmann data. Applied Optics Vol. 56, Issue 4, pp. 1215-1224 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.56.001215
• Francisco Javier Gantes-Nuñez, Zacarías Malacara-Hernández, Daniel Malacara-Doblado, and Daniel Malacara-Hernández. Zonal processing of Hartmann or Shack–Hartmann patterns. Applied Optics Vol. 56, Issue 7, pp. 1898-1907 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.56.001898
• Juan Camilo Valencia-Estrada, Marcelo Vaca Pereira-Ghirghi, Zacarias Malacara-Hernández, Héctor Alejandro Chaparro-Romo. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12596-016-0383-9

2015

• Zacarías Malacara-Hernández, Daniel Malacara-Doblado, and Daniel Malacara-Hernández, Least-squares fitting of Hartmann or Shack–Hartmann data with a circular array of sampling points, Applied Optics, 54:28, pp. E113-E122
• Geovanni Hernández-Gómez, Daniel Malacara-Doblado, Zacarías Malacara-Hernández, and Daniel Malacara-Hernández, "Modal processing of Hartmann and Shack–Hartmann patterns by means of a least squares fitting of the transverse aberrations: erratum," Appl. Opt. 54, 1870-1871 (2015)

2014

• Hernández-Gómez G, Malacara-Hernández Z, Malacara-Doblado D, Díaz-Uribe R, Malacara-Hernández D. “Modal Integration of Hartmann and Shack-Hartmann Patterns” J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2014 Apr 1;31(4):846-51. doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.31.000846.
• Geovanni Hernández-Gómez, Zacarías Malacara-Hernández, and Daniel Malacara-Hernández, "Hartmann tests to measure the spherical and cylindrical curvatures and the axis orientation of astigmatic lenses or optical surfaces," Appl. Opt. 53, 1191-1199 (2014)
• Geovanni Hernández-Gómez, Zacarías Malacara-Hernández, Daniel Malacara-Doblado, Rufino Díaz-Uribe, and Daniel Malacara-Hernández, "Modal integration of Hartmann and Shack–Hartmann patterns," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 31, 846-851 (2014)

2013

• Zacarías Malacara-Hernández, Daniel Malacara-Hernández, Armando Gómez-Vieyra, A new derivation of a general Coddington equation from the sagittal and tangential Coddington equations, Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics Volume 124, Issue 20, October 2013, Pages 4627 4627

2011

• Malacara, Z. D Malacara Hernandez, M. A, C. Rodríguez Hernández, J. L. Racilla, The design of an Apochromatic Optical Spectrograph for Astronomical Purposes. Opt. And Lasers in Eng. 49:6, 749-752 (2011)

2010

• Malacara-Doblado D., Zacarías Malacara Hdez. A. Gómez Vieyra. Primary Wavefront Aberrations Calculation from a Defocused Image or a Hartmanngram Appl. Opt, 49:12, 20 Apr. 2010. 2302-2308, (2010)

2007

• Malacara , Z. D. Malacara H., D. Malacara D. J.E.A. Landgrave "Astigmatic Optical Surfaces, Characteristics, Testing and Differences Between Them.", Optical Engineering, Dec. 2007

2004

• Calixto, S., G. A. Pérez-Herrera, M. Strojnik, M. Servin, Z. Malacara and R. A. Duarte-Quiroga, Fabrication of transmissive diffractive optical elements for the mid-infrared with a laser writing instrument 5:2, Journal of Applied Research Technology, (2005).

1999

• García Márquez, J. L., D. Malacara, Z. Malacara. (1999), “Holographic and Moiré Compensators”. Rev. Mex Fis. 45:4, 355-359

Libros

• Malacara, D., Z. Malacara, (1994), Handbook of Lens Design, Marcel Decker, New York.
• Malacara, D., M. Servin. Z. Malacara. (1998), Interferogram Analysis for Optical Testing, Marcel Dekker, New York.
• Malacara D, Z. Malacara, (2004), Handbook of Optical Design 2nd. Ed, Marcel Dekker, New York.
• Malacara, D., M. Servin. Z. Malacara. (2005), Interferogram Analysis for Optical Testing, 2nd. Ed., Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton.
• Malacara D, Z. Malacara, (2012), Handbook of Optical Design 3rd. Ed, Marcel Dekker, New York.