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DIRECTED ENERGY
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY
21st Annual Solid State and Diode Laser Technology Review
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2-5 June 2008 |
Albuquerque, New Mexico | |
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Location & Accommodations
Security
Submissions
Committee Members
Call for Papers
SSDLTR 2008 continues its mission to be the premier technical meeting for the military high power solid
state laser community. The SSDLTR brings together researchers and managers from government, contractor,
and university settings for the exchange of ideas relating to the development of high power bulk solid
state, fiber, and semiconductor laser systems and related technologies.
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| Church Street Cafe, Old Town Albuquerque
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Highlights
- Invited and contributed technical papers
- FOUO (Dist. C) and public sessions
- Short courses
- Reception (hosted by Lockheed Martin)
- Poster paper session
- Industrial and government exhibits
- Printed digest published concurrently with the conference
Preliminary Overview Agenda
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Monday, 2 June
- Short Courses
- Beam Directors 101
- Atmospheric Effects
- Fiber Lasers
- High Power Laser Diode Physics and Technology
Tuesday, 3 June
- Plenary Session
Solid-State Lasers Come of Age
- Lunch & Keynote Address
Professor Dana Anderson, University of Colorado:
"Ultracold Matter and the Atom Laser"
- Afternoon Technical Sessions
- Evening Welcome Reception
Hosted by Lockheed Martin
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Wednesday, 4 June
- Morning Technical Sessions
Lunch and Poster Session
Afternoon Technical Sessions
Evening Reception at Balloon Museum
Thursday, 5 June
- Morning Technical Sessions
- Lunch
- Afternoon Technical Sessions
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Location and Accommodations
The 2008 SSDLTR will be held at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town,
800 Rio Grande Boulevard NW, 87104. Directions to the hotel are available on its web site.
A block of rooms at government rates have been reserved for all SSDLTR attendees. To reserve a room for
$75 per night plus tax, contact the hotel directly at 800 237-2133. The room block expires on 15 May.
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Through 12 May
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Through 29 May
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On-site
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Half Day
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Full Day
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| DEPS members |
$590
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$690
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$750
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$210
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$360
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| Non-members |
$650
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$750
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$800
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$210
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$360
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| Full-time Students * |
$0
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$0
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$0
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$210
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$360
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* Full time students will be admitted at no fee provided they (1) agree to work for two sessions
operating computers for the presenters, or (2) are making a presentation. If these conditions are
not met, students will be required to pay the full registration fee.
Your registration includes attendance at the technical sessions, a copy of the open proceedings,
attendance at receptions, breakfast, lunch, and break refreshments. Conference registrants
may join DEPS for $45 and qualify for membership registration fees.
Short course registrations include participation in the classroom activities, student
materials, refreshments, and Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credits. Two half-day classes
can be selected for the price of the full-day class.
Registration
Registration is no longer possible for this event.
Persons requesting cancellation through 5 May will receive a full refund. Cancellations after 5 May are
subject to a $100 cancellation fee. There will be no refunds after 29 May.
Participation in For Official Use Only (FOUO) Sessions
Participation in the FOUO sessions will be limited to US citizens who are employees of the US federal
government or its contractors. Government employees will be admitted to FOUO sessions upon presentation
of their government employee photo identification. Employees of contractors to the US federal government
must submit a request for admission to FOUO sessions. The request must be on company letterhead, must be
signed by your company FSO or your immediate supervisor, must identify you by name as a company employee, must
state your citizenship, must include your social security number, and must state that you have a valid need for
access to the information to be presented at this meeting.
Fax the letter to 505-998-4917 or mail it to
Directed Energy Professional Society
Attn: SSDLTR 2008
2600 Yale Boulevard SE, Suite 139
Albuquerque, NM 87106
These attendees must also present a photo identification at registration. Contact the DEPS office at
505-998-4910 if further information is needed.
Call for Papers
Contributions are solicited for presentation at SSDLTR from all areas relevant to the
development of high power solid state lasers for military applications. The SSDLTR committee
will select contributions for inclusion in the technical program based on submitted abstracts.
All contributors of public release presentations must write a paper and have it cleared for
public release at least 40 days prior to the conference (23 April 2008) so it can be published
in the SSDLTR Technical Digest.
Topics Include:
- Bulk High Power Solid State Lasers
- High Power Fiber Lasers
- High Power Diode Lasers
- High Power Solid State Laser Systems & Applications
- Beam Quality, Combination, and Control
- Optical Component Damage
- Power and Thermal Management Systems
- Alternate Wavelength Sources
- Novel Optical Materials (such as ceramics)
- Packaging, Ruggedization, and other systems issues
Submissions
Abstracts
Abstracts of papers will be used exclusively for presentation selection. Abstracts must
be written in the format below and received in electronic format by the program committee at
SSDLTR08@deps.org no later than 11 January 2008.
Include the following:
- Title of presentation
- Authors
- Organization affiliation
- Corresponding author's phone, email and postal address
- Preference for oral or poster presentation
- 500 word or less abstract
- Expected classification of presentation (For Official Use Only (Dist. C) or Public Release; see below)
Submissions must include a completed release form, available below.
Electronic files submitted to the program committee should use the naming convention: Last-name-of-first-author_abstract_SSDLTR2008.doc.
For more than one submission, insert #n after the last name of first author where n
is a sequential number.
A completed Abstract Release Form is due at the same time as the
abstract and should be faxed to 866-338-0967 or submitted by mail to the DEPS address given above, attention: Carolyn Bowman.
Abstracts without release forms will not be considered for inclusion in the SSDLTR.
The program committee will inform authors by 8 February 2008 if their contributions are selected for
inclusion in the technical program. Specific instructions for submitting the presentations and public release papers will
be provided at that time.
Papers
Papers must be submitted electronically to ssdltr@hotmail.com and received by 23 April 2008.
No late submissions will be accepted. Papers must be submitted as a Microsoft Word document and contained in a single file.
The file must be named "Lastname.doc" (e.g., Smith.doc) and filesize must be less than 5 MB.
Papers must be cleared for public release and a completed Paper Release Form
is due at the same time. The release form should be faxed to 866-338-0967 or submitted by mail to the DEPS address given above,
attention: Carolyn Bowman. Papers without the necessary release form will not be published in the SSDLTR Technical Digest.
Formatting Guidelines
- Paper Headings should include the title of the paper, a list of authors, and the contact information of the authors.
- Papers should be between 2-5 pages in length, including photographs, tables, schematics, plots and references.
- Documents should be ONLY in Arial and symbol Font.
- Main text should be in 10 point type.
- Text should be left justified.
- Single column format
- One inch margin top, bottom and sides. Note this is not the MS Word default.
- The footer should have the papers' session name and the principle author's name (ie. Plenary - Smith) centered,
one half inch from the bottom. Authors will be informed of their sessions before the paper deadline.
- Imported graphics should be .bmp, .gif or .jpg only.
- Make graphics, equations, tables etc. in-line on their own line. (Choose "in-line with text" in the formatting options.)
Convert all graphics to grayscale.
Things to avoid:
- Page numbers should not be used.
- No color graphics. For charts, choose shades of grey that will stand out in B&W.
- No Company LOGOS
- No cross-links, hyperlinks, linked footnotes etc.
- Turn change tracking OFF.
- No floating graphics elements.
- No text boxes or graphics boxes (MS Word).
The attached paper is provided as a sample of correct formatting.
Presentations
Presentations may be FOUO or public release. If FOUO, they will not be published in the SSDLTR Proceedings. Regardless of
classification, this Presentation Release Form must be completed and submitted concurrenty
with the presentation. Presentations without the necessary release form will not be allowed. Presentation due date will be posted
here soon.
Classification
Public release means that the material can be distributed to anyone. For Official Use Only (Dist C) means
that the distribution of the material is restricted to employees of the U.S. government or its contractors.
U.S. citizenship is an additional requirement for participation in the FOUO sessions.
Presentations may be public release or FOUO and will be directed to sessions appropriate for their classification.
Abstracts and papers must be public release.
Organizing and Program Committee
2008 Program Chair
Dr. Iain McKinnie, Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories (303) 544-9068, Iain.McKinnie@kmlabs.com
SSDLTR Advisory Board
Andrew Brown, Aculight (425) 482-1100, Andrew.Brown@aculight.com
Roy Hamil, AFRL/DEL
Gene Nolting, NAVSEA
Denton Marrs, NAVAIR
David Mordaunt, NGST
Sean Ross, AFRL/DELO (505) 846-9148, Sean.Ross@kirtland.af.mil
Kalin Spariosu, Raytheon
Gary Wood, ARL
Event Coordinator
Cynnamon Spain, DEPS (505) 998-4910, Cynnamon@deps.org
Registration and Short Courses
Donna Storment, DEPS (505) 998-4910, Donna@deps.org
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