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DIRECTED ENERGY
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY
Event Proceedings |
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2006 SSDLTR |
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The items listed below constitute the proceedings from the
2006 Solid State Diode Laser Technology Review.
These, and other DEPS event proceedings, are available through the
DEPS online store.
Unless otherwise noted, presentations only are included for each entry. Papers from
the SSDLTR are published in the SSDLTR Technical Digest.
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Conference Proceedings |
| Platform Integration Issues for Solid State Lasers | |
Welcome
Dr. Sean Ross, AFRL/DELO |
Platform Integration Issues for Solid State Lasers
Mr. Gerald Uyeno, Raytheon |
Laser Target Designators and Rangefinders: Integration and Production, a Merchant Suppliers Perspective
Dr. Jeffrey Cavins, Northrop Grumman |
Diode Pumped Solid State Laser Integration for Raytheon’s Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared Pod
Mr. Dan Nieuwsma, Raytheon |
NASA Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS)
Dr. Rob Afzal, Aculight |
Qualification and Integration of the Laser Transmitter for the CALIPSO Aerosol Lidar Mission
Dr. Floyd Hovis, Fibertek |
An Initiative Toward Reliable Long-Duration Operation of Diode Laser Arrays in Space
Dr. David Tratt, NASA |
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Alternate Wavelength Sources | |
Tunable External Cavity Quantum Cascade Lasers for Molecular Detection and Imaging in the Mid Infrared
Dr. Timothy Day, Daylight Solutions, Inc. |
Tunable High-Power High-Brightness Diode-Pumped VECSELs and Their Applications
Dr. Mahmoud Fallahi, University of Arizona |
High-Brightness from an Unstable Resonator Mid-IR Semiconductor Laser
Dr. Andrew Ongstad, AFRL/DELS |
Advances in High Brightness Semiconductor Lasers in the 1400 -1600 nm Regime
Dr. M Osowski, Quintessence Photonics Corporation |
Record High-Power and High-Efficiency InP-based Diode Lasers
Dr. Steve Patterson, nLight |
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Spatially and Temporally Resolved Temperature Measurement of Laser Diode Arrays
Mr. Jason Carter, Pennsylvania State University |
High-Brightness Laser Diode Arrays for Eye-Safe Lasers Enabled by Volume Bragg Gratings
Dr. Boris Volodin, PD-LD Inc. |
Multi-Kilowatt High-Brightness Fiber Coupled Diode Laser Systems
Dr. Nels Ostrom, Nuvonyx, Inc. |
400-W Peak CW Power per Bar from 1-cm GaAs Bars For Emission Wavelengths From 800-nm to 980-nm, 90-W per bar at 660-nm
Dr. Paul Crump, nLight |
Vacuum Testing of High-Power Laser Diode Arrays
Dr. Eliot Geathers, Pennsylvania State University |
Advances in High Brightness Semiconductor Lasers
Dr. R Lammert, Quintessence Photonics Corporation |
Emitter-Level Screening of Laser Diode Subassemblies
Mr. Ryan Feeler, Northrop Grumman Cutting Edge Optronics |
Qualification of High-Power Laser Bars for Space Applications
Dr. Rajiv Pathak, Lasertel Inc. |
Compact High Power, High Brightness Diode Laser for Pumping of Solid State Lasers
Dr. Andreas Brandt, Visotek, Inc. |
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System Integration Aspects of Pulsed Fiber Lasers in MOPA Configuration
Mr. Tim Lauterborn, Fraunhofer USA |
High Average Power Generation of Single-Transverse Mode MW-peak power Pulses using 80-µm core Yb-doped LMA Fibers
Dr. Alamantas Galvanauskus, University of Michigan |
Near Diffraction-Limited, 1064nm, All-Fiber Master Oscillator Fiber Amplifier (MOFA) with Enhanced SRS Suppression for Pulsed Nanosecond Applications
Dr. John McCarthy, BAE Systems |
High-Power Compact Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplif iers at 1558-nm using Er/Yb LMA Fibers and Chirped Volume Bragg Grating Compressors
Dr. Alamantas Galvanauskus, University of Michigan |
Component Testing and Amplifier Design for 200W, Narrow Linewidth, Monolithic PM-LMA Fiber Amplifiers
Dr. David Machewirth, Nufern |
Ultra-Compact High-Power Fiber Lasers with Phosphate Microstructured Optical Fibers
Dr. N Peyghambarian, University of Arizona |
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Thermal and Power Management | |
High-Power Density Pulse Generator for Laser Diode Applications
Mr. Don Deaton, DRS TEM Inc. |
Lightweight Cooling System for a 100kW SSL
Dr. Dan Rini, Rini Technologies, Inc. |
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Beam Combination and Control | |
High-Power Spectrally Beam Combined Fiber Laser System with Near-Diffraction Limited Beam Quality
Dr. Thomas Loftus, Aculight Corporation |
Wavelength Beam Combining of Three 30-watt Fiber Amplifiers
Dr. Steve Augst, MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
Dense Spectral Beam Combining With Volume Bragg Gratings in PTR Glass
Mr. Oleksiy Andrusyak, University of Central Florida |
Passively Phasing High-Power Multi Core Fiber Laser: Experiment and Theory
Dr. Chi Liu, University of Michigan |
Spatial and Temporal Stability Analysis of Multicore Fiber Amplifier Array
Dr. Eric Bochove, Air Force Research Laboratory/DELO |
Stable Operation of a Phase-Locked Laser Array in a Self-Fourier Cavity
Dr. Chris Corcoran, Corcoran Engineering, Inc. |
Novel Applications of a Self Fourier Cavity to High-Power Phased Laser Arrays
Dr. Eric Bochove, Air Force Research Laboratory/DELO |
Coherent Fiber Array for Active Satellite Imaging
Dr. Mark Culpepper, AFRL/DELO |
Incoherent Combining of High-Power Fiber Lasers for Long Range DE Application
Dr. Phil Sprangle, Naval Research Laboratory |
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400-W Cryo-Cooled Yb:YAG Laser with 56% Efficiency
Dr. Bhabana Pati, Q-Peak, Inc. |
Laser Potential of Diode Pumped Yb-Doped Y2O3 Ceramics
Dr. Mark Dubinskii, Army Research Laboratory |
High-Power, Tm-Fiber-Laser-Pumped, Ho:YLF Laser
Dr. Alex Dergachev, Q-Peak, Inc |
Spinning Disk Laser - Computer Simulations
Dr. Al Paxton, AFRL |
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Tunable Narrow Band-Pass Filters for Laser Applications
Dr. Julien Lumeau, University of Central Florida |
Effect of Increased Quantum Well Strain on GaSb Based 2.3-2.4 um High Power Diode Lasers
Dr. David Westerfeld, Power Photonic Corp |
Bend-Loss Filtered, Large-Mode-Area Fiber Amplifiers: Experiments and Modeling
Dr. Roger Farrow, Sandia National Laboratories |
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