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2008 SSDLTR |
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The items listed below constitute the proceedings from the
2008 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 |
Plenary Session: Laser Radar: Past, Present and Future |
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Technical Breakthroughs of Solid-State Lasers: Past and Future
Robert Byer, Stanford University
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High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office
Mark Neice, High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office
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The Outlook for Lower Size, Weight, & Power High Power Lasers
C. Martin Stickley, Consultant to CREOL, University of Central Florida
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Laser Processing of Microelectronics: Historical Trends and Future Challenges
Brian Baird, ESI
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Integration Aspects of Fiber and Diode Laser Systems (Abstract also included)
Tim Lauterborn, Jens Peter Steinbrecher and Stefan Heinemann, Fraunhofer USA, Inc.
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Progress in Fiber-Coupled, High-Brightness, High-Power Diode Laser Pump Sources (Abstract also included)
Kirk Price, Paul Leisher, Steve Patterson, Scott Karlsen, Aaron Brown, Ron Mehl, Rob Martinsen, Keith Kennedy, Derek Schulte and Jake Bell, nLight Corporation
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High Brightness Single Mode and Multimode Semiconductor Lasers in the Visible, Near-Infrared and Eye-Safe Regime
R. M. Lammert, K. K. Law, S. W. Oh, M. L. Osowski, W. Hu, C. Panja, P. T. Rudy, T. Stakelon and J. E. Ungar, QPC Lasers, Inc.
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Efficiency Limiting Processes in Infrared Semiconductor Diode Lasers
Stephen J. Sweeney (currently on leave at Arizona State University), Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey
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INVITED TALK: Research Activities in the German National Funding Initiative BRIOLAS (Abstract only)
Friedrich Bachmann, ROFIN-SINAR Laser GmbH
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Highly Efficient Diode Laser Bars for CW and Quasi-CW Operation (Abstract also included)
M. Müller, G. Grönninger, H. König and U. Strauss, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Germany; R. Kojima, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Inc., USA; M. Stoiber and J. Biesenbach, DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH, Germany
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High Power-High Brillance 9xx nm Diode Laser Bars (Abstract also included)
Ralf Hülsewede, JENOPTIK
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Solder Packaging of Optics for High Power Diode Laser Systems (Abstract also included)
Erik Beckert, Thomas Burkhardt, Ramona Eberhardt and Andreas Tünnermann, Fraunhofer Institut for Applied Optics and Fine Mechanics; Ekkehard Werner and Petra Hennig, Jenoptik Laserdiode GmbH; Andreas Tünnermann, Friedrich Schiller University, Institute of Applied Physics
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High-Power Laser Diode Bars and Arrays for Pumping of High Energy Solid State Lasers
Nels Ostrom, Wayne Penn and Brian Faircloth, Coherent Direct Diode Systems
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Wavelength-Stabilized & Spectrally Narrowed High Power & High Brightness Lasers
M. Kanskar, D. Zhou, H. An, J. Cai, E. Stiers, C. Galstad, T. Klos, S.H. Macomber, Michael Martin and Y. He, Alfalight, Inc.
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Diode-Laser Modules for Pumping of Rubidium Lasers (Abstract also included)
Trevor Crum, Spectra-Physics
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High-Power Distributed Bragg Reflector Lasers (Abstract also included)
M. Achtenhagen, N. V. Amarasinghe, Linglin Jiang, Jeff Threadgill, J. K. Butler, N. H. Sun and G. A. Evans, Photodigm, Inc.
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Performance and Reliability of High Power 88X nm Bars
Vivek Agrawal, Rajiv Pathak, Mika Toivenon, Sami Lekhonen, Jason Watson, Andre McFayden, Heiko Winhold, Pamela Liang, David Schleuning, Eli Weiss, Tom Hasenberg, Juergen Pfaff, Jim Haden and Norman Hodgson, Coherent, Inc.
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Improvements in Microchannel-Cooled High-Efficiency 885-nm Diode Laser Bars (Abstract also included)
Paul Leisher, Kirk Price, Ling Bao, Jun Wang, Weimin Dong, Mike Grimshaw, Shiguo Zhang, Mike Bougher, Suhit Das, Aaron Hodges, Mark DeFranza, Chris Ebert, Rob Martinsen, Mark DeVito, Jake Bell and Steve Patterson, nLight Corporation
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Conduction Cooled Multi-kW QCW Diode Laser Arrays with Low Operating Current (Abstract also included)
Jihua Du, Rajiv Pathak, Eli Weiss, Vivek Agrawal, John Morales and Tom Hasenberg, Coherent, Inc.
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Power Beaming with Diode Lasers (Abstract also included)
Tobias Koenning, DILAS Diode Laser, Inc.
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QWI Enabled QCW High-Power 808-nm Laser Diode Arrays (Abstract also included)
Valentín Loyo, G. Bacchin, S. W. Robertson, S. Bon, K. Man, D. A. Yanson, B. Qiu, S. D. McDougall and J. H. Marsh, Intense Limited
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Reliability of High-Performance Semiconductor Laser Diodes in the 800 – 1000nm Wavelength Band (Abstract only)
Erik Zucker, JDS Uniphase Corporation
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Coherently Combined High-Power Intelligent Single Mode Emitters (COCHISE): MIT/LL Program
George W. Turner, MIT/Lincoln Laboratory
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High-Reliable QCW Pump Laser Stacks (Abstract only)
E. Deichsel, D. Lorenzen, D. Schröder and P. Hennig, JENOPTIK Laserdiode GmbH
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Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Arrays for High-Power Applications (Abstract also included)
Chuni L. Ghosh, Jean-Francois Seurin, Viktor Khalfin, Aleksandr Miglo, Guoyang Xu, James D. Wynn, Prachi Pradhan and L. Arthur D’Asaro, Princeton Optronics
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Design and Manufacturing of Fiber Coupled Single Emitter Arrays with >350 W from a 200μm Fiber, NA=0.2
S. Heinemann, B. Regaard and T. Schmidt, Fraunhofer USA, Inc.
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Fiber-Coupled Diode Laser Bars Optimized for High Brightness Applications (Abstract also included)
S. D. Roh, D. M. Grasso and J. Small, Coherent, Inc.
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Highly Reliable, High Brightness, Compact Pump Module
Ed Wolak, Daming Liu, Serge Cutillas, Sang-Ki Park, Kelly Johnson, Hanxuan Li, Irving Chyr, Frank Reinhardt, Robert Miller, Xu Jin, Touyen Ngugen, Terry Towe, Peggi Cross, Tom Truchan, Robert Bullock, Kiran Kuppuswamy, Dino Lenarduzzi, Jeff Mott and James Harrison, Spectra-Physics
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Novel High Power Monolithic CW Arrays (Abstract also included)
P. Thiagarajan, F. Lapinski, M. McElhinney, B. Caliva and R. Walker, Lasertel Inc.
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Progress in Long-Wavelength High-Power Diode Laser Pump Sources (Abstract also included)
Paul Leisher, Kirk Price, Keith Kennedy, Weimin Dong, Mike Grimshaw, Shiguo Zhang, Sandrio Elim, Jason Patterson, Mike Bougher, Suhit Das, Utsu Trifan, David Dawson, Dennis McCal, Aaron Hodges, Scott Karlsen, Rob Martinsen, Jake Bell, Paul Crump (now with Ferdinand Braun Institute, Berlin, Germany) and Steve Patterson, nLight Corporation
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2.3-kW Continuous Operation Cryogenic Yb:YAG Laser
Jason K. Brasseur, Akheelesh K. Abeeluck, Andrew R. Awtry, Lei. S. Meng, Kevin E. Shortoff, Nicholas J. Miller, Richard K. Hampton, Michael H. Cuchiara and David K. Neumann, Directed Energy Solutions
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6kW CW Single Mode Ytterbium Fiber Laser in All-Fiber Format
Dennis Gapontsev, IPG Photonics
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1 kW Waveguide Laser
Micah Boyd, Nick Sawruck, Dylan Yost, Bert Callicoatt, Mike Tartaglia, Iain McKinnie and Glenn Bennett, Lockheed Martin
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Joint High Power Solid State Laser Program Update (Abstract only)
Jay Marmo, Jeff Sollee, Hiroshi Komine, Stuart McNaught and Michael McClellan, Northrop Grumman Corporation
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Comparison of Spectral Beam Combining Approaches for High Power Fiber Laser Systems (Abstract only)
Eric Honea, Pratheepan Madasamy, Shawn Redmond, Thomas Loftus and Alison Thomas, Aculight Corporation
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Exploration of Performance Limits of Fiber Laser Technology for Directed Energy Applications (Abstract only)
Ray Horley, Shaiful Alam, Laurence Cooper, Julia Shaw, Ian Mitchell, Charlie Sheehan and Michalis Zervas (joint affiliation with both SPI and ORC), SPI Lasers UK Ltd; Ken Dzurko, SPI Lasers LLC; Yoonchan Jeong, Jean-Noel Maran, Jayanta Sahu (joint affiliation with both SPI and ORC), Christophe Codemard, Seongwoo Yoo, Johan Nilsson (joint affiliation with both SPI and ORC) and David Payne (joint affiliation with both SPI and ORC), Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK
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Gas-Cooled Disk Laser (Abstract only)
John Vetrovec, Aqwest, LLC
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AFRL’s Materials Efforts: Enabling Improved Laser Systems (Abstract only)
F. Kenneth Hopkins, Thomas E. Kensky, William D. Mitchell, Robert J. Ondercin, Nils C. Fernelius, Jonathan T. Goldstein, David E. Zelmon and Robert L. Nelson, Air Force Research Laboratory
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Rugged, High-Performance Nd:YAG Slab Oscillators and Amplifiers (Abstract only)
G. Bennett, M. Hinckley, L. Rubin, J. V. Rudd, J. Unternahrer, C. Wood and S. Henderson, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies
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Mechanical Properties of Van der Waals Adhesive-Free Bond (AFB®) Optical Composites (Abstract also included)
Huai-Chuan Lee and Helmuth E. Meissner, Onyx Optics, Inc.
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A Compact Laser Current Source for Solid State Laser Weapon Systems
David Prestel, Northrop Grumman
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Advanced Thermal Energy Storage Techniques for High Powered SSL’s (Abstract also included)
Dan Rini, Jennifer Huddle-Lindauer, Ben Saarloos and David Van Ee, Rini Technologies
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Ceramic Microchannel Coolers for Laser Diode Arrays
Edward F. Stephens, Ryan Feeler, Jeremy Junghans and Greg Kemner, Northrop Grumman
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Low Temperature Spray Cooling for Cryogenic Laser Systems (Abstract also included)
Dan Rini, Bradley G. Carman and Benjamin A. Saarloos, Rini Technologies
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Mechanically Pumped Two-Phase System With Multiple Compact Evaporators for Laser Cooling (Abstract also included)
Dmitry Khrustalev, Dave Wolf and Pete Cologer, ATK Space Division
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Lightweight and Compact Thermal Management System for Solid-State High-Energy Laser (Abstract also included)
John Vetrovec, Aqwest, LLC
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The Starfire Optical Range Sodium Guidestar FASOR
Craig Denman, Paul Hillman, Jack Drummond and John Telle, Air Force Research Laboratory
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System Overview and Details of High Power 589 nm Guidestar Lasers
Neil Vanasse, Ian Lee, Munib Jalali, Zachery Prezkuta, Estelle Andrews, Bruce Tiemann, Ken Groff, Nathan Rogers, Jared Roush, Grant Moule and Allen Hankla, Lockheed Martin
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Quantum Design and Demonstration of a Yellow-Orange OPSL (Abstract also included)
J. V. Moloney and J. Hader, Nonlinear Control Strategies, Inc.;
J. V. Moloney, J. Hader, M. Fallahi, L. Fan and Y. Kaneda, University of Arizona;
S. W. Koch and W. Stolz, University of Marburg, Germany;
R. Bedford, Air Force Research Laboratory
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Optimized Design of Nd Transverse Doping Profiles in Transparent YAG Ceramics for Edge-Pumped Laser Geometries
Jeffrey A. Wisdom, Romain Gaume, R. Route, Yan Lin Aung, Akio Ikesue, M. J. F. Digonnet and Robert L. Byer, Stanford University
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Synthesis and Properties of Eye-Safe Single Crystal and Ceramic Sources
C. McMillen, J. Ballato, J. Kolis, B. Kokuoz, B. Kokuoz, K. Serivalsatit, P. Foy, T. Hawkins and E. McCormick, Clemson University
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Efficient 100 kHz Repetition Rate Ultrafast Laser System with OPA/NOPA Frequency Conversion
Sterling Backus, Iain McKinnie, Xiaoshi Zhang, Hsiao-Hua Liu, Greg Taft, Neil Anderson, Dirk Müller, Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane, Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories Inc.
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Towards Temperature Independent Er:Glass Lasers
William Hageman and Michael Bass, University of Central Florida
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Lowest Quantum Defect Eye-Safe Laser
Nikolay Ter-Gabrielyan, Larry D. Merkle and Mark Dubinskii, US Army Research Laboratory; Akio Ikesue, World Labo, Japan
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Efficient, High-Power Tm-Doped Silica Fiber Laser (Abstract also included)
Kevin F. Wall, Q-Peak, Inc.
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60W of Average Output Power From a Pulsed Tm-Doped Fiber Amplifier Operating at 2-microns (Abstract also included)
Daniel Creeden, Peter A. Budni and Peter A. Ketteridge, BAE Systems
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Efficient and Reliable 790nm-Pumped Tm Lasers from 1.91 to 2.13μm
S. Christensen, G. Frith, B. Samson, A. Carter, J. Farroni, K. Farley and K. Tankala, Nufern
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High-Power Fiber-Based Green Laser with Diffraction-Limited Output Beam
Dan Hu, Eric Eisenberg, Diane Smith, Roy Mead and Eric Honea, Aculight Corporation
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Monolithic, Turn-Key, 1 kW Yb-Doped MOPA
J. Edgecumbe, David Björk, J. Galipeau, Gary Boivin, Thomas Ehrenreich, Scott Christensen, Bryce Samson and K. Tankala, Nufern
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Towards 10s of kW Fiber Lasers Based on PCF Technology (Abstract also included)
Peter M. W. Skovgaard, Jes Broeng, Martin D. Nielsen, Thomas Nikolajsen, Mads H. Sørensen, Thomas T. Alkeskjold, Kim P. Hansen, Kent E. Mattsson, Stig N. Knudsen and Christina B. T. Olausson, Crystal Fibre A/S
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Single-Mode Chirally Coupled Core Yb-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers for High Power Scaling (Abstract also included)
M. Craig Swan, Shenghong Huang, Chi-Hung Liu, Xiuquan Ma and Almantas Galvanauskas, University of Michigan
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Characterizing Higher-Order-Modes Propagating in Large-Mode-Area Fibers
J. W. Nicholson, A. D. Yablon, S. Ramachandran and S. Ghalmi, OFS Laboratories
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Magnetic Quasi-Phase Matching for Optical Isolation in High-Power Fiber Amplifiers (Abstract also included)
Gerald T. Moore and Chunte A. Lu, Air Force Research Laboratory/RDLO
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SBS Thresholds for a Single-Frequency Fiber Amplifier with a Thermal Gradient: Co-Pumped and Counter-Pumped Systems (Abstract only)
Thomas Shay, Air Force Research Laboratory
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SBS Mitigation with ‘Two-Tone’ Amplification A Theoretical Approach (Abstract also included)
T. Justin Bronder, Iyad Dajani, Clint Zeringue, Tom Shay and Tom Gavrielides, Air Force Research Laboratory
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SBS Phase Conjugation in Optical Fiber (Abstract also included)
Steven M. Massey, Air Force Institute of Technology
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Single-Frequency Photonic Crystal Fiber Amplifier with 220W (Abstract also included)
Christopher Vergien, Craig Robin, Iyad Dajani and T. M. Shay, Air Force Research Laboratory/RDLO; Benjamin Ward, United States Air Force Academy
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High Power Femtosecond Yb-Fiber CPA System Based on Chirped Volume Bragg Gratings
Guoqing Chang, Matthew Rever and Almantas Galvanauskas, University of Michigan; Vadim Smirnov, OptiGrate; Leonid Glebov, University of Central Florida
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Pulsed Fiber-Laser Technology Based on Short and Heavily Doped Phosphate-Glass Fiber (Abstract also included)
Pavel Polynkin and Jerome Moloney, Polar Laser Laboratories and University of Arizona
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Beam Combination and Control |
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2-D Re-Imaging Assisted Phased Array Architecture Based on 2-D Hollow Waveguides
Andrew T. Bratcher and Radek Uberna, Lockheed Martin
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Power Scaling a Coherent Laser Array
Christopher J. Corcoran, Corcoran Engineering, Inc.; Frederic Durville, Optical Fiber Systems, Inc.
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Phase Locking of Three GCSELs Array by a Spatially Profiled Volume Bragg Grating (Abstract also included)
George Venus, Vasile Rotar and Leonid Glebov, University of Central Florida; Vadim Smirnov, OptiGrate; O. Smolski and E. Johnson, University of North Carolina Charlotte
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Efficient All-Fiber Passive Coherent Combining of Fiber Lasers
Baishi Wang and Eric Mies, Vytran LLC; Monica Minden (now with Cold Canyon Associates, LLC), HRL Laboratories LLC; Anthony Sanchez, Air Force Research Lab
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Fiber Laser System with kW-Level Spectrally-Combined Output
Oleksiy Andrusyak, Derrek Drachenberg, Vadim Smirnov, George Venus and Leonid Glebov, University of Central Florida
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Rapid Beam Shaping and Focusing Using Tunable Acoustic Gradient Index Lenses
Euan McLeod, Alexandre Mermillod-Blondin and Craig B. Arnold, Princeton University
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Atmospheric Propagation of a Beam from Partially-Coherent Sources of Arbitrary Beam Quality
F. Ghebremichael and D. Tiszauer, Lockheed Martin
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Incoherent Combining of High-Power Fiber Lasers for Directed-Energy Applications (Abstract also included)
Phillip Sprangle, A. Ting, J. Peñano and R. Fischer, Naval Research Laboratory; B. Hafizi, Icarus Research, Inc.
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Coherent 2-D Fiber Laser Array
Frederic Durville, Optical Fiber Systems, Inc.; Christopher J. Corcoran, Corcoran Engineering, Inc.
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New Frontiers of Cr2+ and Fe2+ Doped II-VI Mid-IR Lasers (Abstract also included)
Sergey B. Mirov, V. Fedorov, I. Moskalev, D. Martyshkin, A. Gallian, C. Kim, A. Martinez, N. Smith, A. Arumugam, N. Myoung, Y. Terekhov and P. Marine, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Photonics Innovations, Inc.
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OPGaAs: Orientation-Patterned GaAs for 2-μm-Pumped Mid-IR OPOs
Peter G. Schunemann, Scott D. Setzler, York E. Young and Lee Mohnkern, BAE Systems, Inc.; Candace Lynch, David Bliss and David Weyburne, Air Force Research Laboratory
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High Repetition-Rate Pulsed and Continuous Wave Mid-Infrared Generation via Wavelength Conversion of High-Power Fiber Lasers
Mark S. Bowers, Angus Henderson, Ryan Stafford, Paul Hoffman, Sebastien Desmoulins and Robert Afzal, Aculight Corporation
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Cavity-Mode Analysis of Northrop Grumman Passive Beam-Combining Experiments
Erik Bochove, Air Force Research Laboratory; Sami Shakir, Northrop Grumman
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Pump Fluctuation Effects on Spatiotemporal Phase Stability of Fiber Amplifier
Erik Bochove, Air Force Research Laboratory
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Statistics of Filamentation in Semiconductor Broad Area Emitters (Abstract also included)
J. V. Moloney, M. Kolesik and C. Dineen, University of Arizona
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Aerosol Techniques for the Fabrication of HOM Fiber Lasers
T. F. Morse, R. D. Chivas and R. L. Shubochkin, Boston University
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High Roll-Over Power from 8xx nm and 9xx nm Asymmetric Epitaxial Laser Structures with Optical Trap (Abstract also included)
I. B. Petrescu-Prahova, P. Modak, E. Goutain, D. Bambrick, D. Silan, J. Riordan and T. Moritz, Intense-US; J. H. Marsh, Intense-UK
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Large Aperture Chirped Bragg Gratings in PTR Glass for High Energy fs Pulse Stretching and Compression (Abstract only)
Vadim Smirnov and Eugeniu Rotari, OptiGrate, Inc.; Leonid Glebov, School of Optics/CREOL, University of Central Florida
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Spectral Beam Combining of Fiber Lasers with Automatic Wavelength Control
George Venus, Oleksiy Andrusyak, Vadim Smirnov, Nikolai Vorobiev and Leonid Glebov, University of Central Florida
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