Albert Wai Kit Lau

Publications

Six refereed journal articles, thirteen conference proceedings and five preprints. Also on Google Scholar and ORCID.

Refereed journal articles

My name is in bold. † marks a student I mentored. Long author lists are abbreviated.

  • 2025
    False alarm rate-based statistical detection limit for astronomical photon detectors Lau, A. W. K., Fung, L. W. H., & Smoot, G. F. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 11(2), 028007 DOI
  • 2025
    CHIME/FRB Outriggers: Design Overview The CHIME/FRB Collaboration: Amiri, M., et al., including Lau, A. W. K. The Astrophysical Journal, 993(1), 55 arXiv
  • 2023
    Initial On-Sky Performance Testing of the Single-Photon Imager for Nanosecond Astrophysics (SPINA) System Lau, A. W. K., Shaimoldin, N., Maksut, Z., Chan, Y. Y., Shafiee, M., Grossan, B., & Smoot, G. F. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 72, 7007911 DOI
  • 2022
    A SiPM photon-counting readout system for Ultra-Fast Astronomy Lau, A. W. K., Chan, Y. Y., Shafiee, M., Smoot, G. F., & Grossan, B. The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 5
  • 2021
    Constraining HeII reionization detection uncertainties via fast radio bursts Lau, A. W. K., Mitra, A., Shafiee, M., & Smoot, G. F. New Astronomy, 89, 101627
  • 2020
    On-sky silicon photomultiplier detector performance measurements for millisecond to sub-microsecond optical source variability studies Lau, A. W. K., Shafiee, M., Smoot, G. F., Grossan, B., Li, S., & Maksut, Z. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 6(4), 046002 DOI

Conference proceedings

  • 2026
    Differential Active Planar Antenna and Frequency-Division Multiplexing with Commercial Electronics for CHARTS Interferometer Lau, A. W. K., Burgos, G., Pollarolo, B., Manosalva, S., Brecht, F., Cassanelli, T., Mena-Parra, J., Vanderlinde, K., & Finger, R. 20th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 1–5
  • 2026
    Low-cost, ultrawideband, differential low-noise amplifier for interferometric radio telescopes Da Costa, S., Lau, A. W. K., & Vanderlinde, K. Proc. SPIE, 14153, Radio Telescopes, Technologies, and Methods arXiv
  • 2026
    The second little ultraviolet camera (LUVCam2) mission Hu, E., Sivanandam, S., Lau, A., et al. Proc. SPIE, 14146, 141461T, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2026: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
  • 2026
    A report on the first technology demonstration mission of the little UV camera (LUVCam1) Silayan, C., Sivanandam, S., Tohuvavohu, A., Lau, A., et al. Proc. SPIE, 14146, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2026: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
  • 2025
    Active Planar Antenna Design for CHARTS Array Lau, A. W. K., Allder, V., Da Costa, S., Hum, S. V., Vanderlinde, K., & Mena-Parra, J. International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), paper 1571143655
  • 2025
    Canadian-Chilean Array for Radio Transient Studies (CHARTS): Analog System Developments Cassanelli, T., Mena-Parra, J., Manosalva, S., Lau, A. W. K., Gallardo, D., Vanderlinde, K., Connor, L., Finger, R., & Hum, S. 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 1–5 DOI
  • 2025
    IQUEYE at Gemini South: instrument, science commission, and first results Cassanelli, T., Marcone-Puga, P., Naletto, G., Zampieri, L., Ochner, P., Fiori, M., Spolon, A., Araujo Furlan, S. B., Lau, A. W. K., & Mckinven, R. Proc. SPIE, 13624, 136241R, Astronomical Optics: Design, Manufacture, and Test of Space and Ground Systems V DOIarXiv
  • 2024
    Developing a low-cost, compact radio-over-fiber (RFoF) linkage for radio telescope arrays Lau, A. W. K., Vanderlinde, K., Mena-Parra, J., & Lansdale, C. Proc. SPIE, 13096, 130969X, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X
  • 2024
    Beyond CCDs: characterization of sCMOS detectors for optical astronomy Khandelwal, A., Jeram, S., Dungee, R. D., Lau, A. W. K., et al. Proc. SPIE, 13103, 131030R, X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy XI DOIarXiv
  • 2022
    Development of position-sensitive photon-counting imager for Ultra-Fast-Astronomy Lau, A. W. K., Chan, Y. Y., Shafiee, M., Smoot, G. F., & Grossan, B. Proc. SPIE, 12191, 121910Y, X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy X DOI
  • 2019
    Program objectives and specifications for the Ultra-Fast Astronomy observatory Li, S., Smoot, G. F., Grossan, B., Lau, A. W. K., Bekbalanova, M., Shafiee, M., & Stezelberger, T. Proc. SPIE, 11341, 113411Y, AOPC 2019: Space Optics, Telescopes, and Instrumentation
  • 2017
    Searching reachable region of low-thrust trajectories by superposition and greedy optimization Lau, A. W. K., Yam, C. H., & Shing, M. T. 68th International Astronautical Congress, paper IAC-17,C1,IP,33,x37794
  • 2017
    Approximate Two-Point Boundary Value Problem Solutions to Low Thrust Trajectory by Superposition Shing, M. T., Yam, C. H., & Lau, A. W. K. ISTS/ISSFD 2017, paper 2017-d-112

Preprints and submitted manuscripts

  • 2026
    SimpleClock: a satellite-disciplined oscillator for astronomical instrumentation Lau, A. W. K., Pollarolo, B., & Mena-Parra, J. Submitted to the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation arXiv
  • 2026
    Correlated Radio Frequency Interference Monitor for Radio Telescopes Berkhout, L., Hendricksen, I., Montgomery, J., Chakraborty, A., Cliche, J.-F., Dobbs, M., Lau, A. W. K., Mertens, J., Renard, A., Vanderlinde, K., & Wulf, D. Preprint arXiv
  • 2026
    Eclipses by Artificial Satellites to Measure the Angular Sizes of Stars Fung, L. W. H., Lau, A. W. K., Massey, R., & Smoot, G. F. Preprint arXiv
  • 2026
    LUVCam: A high-performance, low-cost, UV/optical camera for the future of astronomy in space Tohuvavohu, A., Sivanandam, S., Fronteddu, J.-C., et al., including Lau, A. Submitted to JATIS arXiv
  • 2023
    WTH! Wok the Hydrogen: Measurement of Galactic Neutral Hydrogen in Noisy Urban Environment Using Kitchenware Fung, L. W. H., Lau, A. W. K., Chan, K. H., & Shing, M. T. Preprint arXiv

Conference presentations and posters

  • 2026
    System architecture and deployment of the CHARTS pathfinder wide-field radio transient interferometer Lau, A. W. K., Manosalva, S., Burgos, G., Pollarolo, B., Cassanelli, T., Finger, R., Mena-Parra, J., & Vanderlinde, K. SPIE Radio Telescopes, Technologies, and Methods; presentation
  • 2025
    The Little UV Camera: Customizable Imaging Platform for Space-Based Astronomy Silayan, C., Sivanandam, S., Tohuvavohu, A., Lau, A., et al. Small Satellite Conference, Poster Session 1, 11 August 2025
  • 2024
    Characterization of two-layer Al/TiN microwave kinetic inductance detectors Shafiee, M., Grossan, B., Smoot, G. F., & Lau, A. W. K. SPIE X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy XI, PC131030S; conference presentation