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Tuesday, 3 June 2008 (Morning) |
| 0800-1000 |
Plenary Session: Chair: Iain McKinnie, Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, Inc |
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Introduction
Iain McKinnie, Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, Inc |
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Technical Breakthroughs of Solid-State Lasers: Past and Future
Robert Byer, Stanford University |
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Perspectives on High Power Solid-State Lasers: Past, Present, and Future
Mark Neice, High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office |
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Poster Session Overview
Sean Ross, Air Force Research Laboratory |
| 1000-1030 |
Break |
| 1030-1230 |
Plenary Session Continued |
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Outlook for Lower SWaP High Energy Lasers
Martin Stickley, Consultant |
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Laser Processing of Microelectronics: Historical Trends and Future Challenges
Brian Baird, ESI |
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Solid-State Lasers for Space: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
Bernie Seery, NASA GSFC |
| 1230-1400 |
Lunch & Keynote Address |
| 1300-1345 |
Keynote Address: Ultracold Matter and the Atom Laser
Dana Z. Anderson, JILA, University of Colorado |
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Tuesday, 3 June 2008 (Afternoon) |
| 1400-1520 |
Diode Lasers I: Chair: Paul Rudy, Quintessence Photonics Corp |
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Integration Aspects of Fiber and Diode Laser Systems
Tim Lauterborn, Fraunhofer USA, Inc |
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Progress in Fiber Coupled, High Brightness, High Power Diode Laser Pump Sources
Kirk Price, nLight Corporation |
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High Brightness Single Mode and Multimode Semiconductor Lasers in the Visible, Near-Infrared and Eye-Safe Regime
K.K. Law, QPC Lasers, Inc |
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Efficiency Limiting Processes in Infrared Semiconductor Diode Lasers
Stephen Sweeney, Arizona State University |
| 1520-1600 |
Break |
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Tuesday, 3 June 2008 (Afternoon) |
| 1600-1730 |
High Power Lasers (Open): Chair: Dave Mordaunt, Northrop Grumman |
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Invited: High Power DPSSLs in the Green and UV Spectral Range - State-of-the Art and Outlook
Henry Pang, Coherent Inc. |
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2.3-kW Continuous Operation Cryogenic Yb:YAG Laser
Jason Brasseur, 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 Re-Imaging Waveguide MOPA
Micah Boyd, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies |
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Tuesday, 3 June 2008 (Afternoon) |
| 1400-1520 |
Power & Thermal: Chair: Pete Cologer, ATK Space |
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Mechanical Properties of Van der Waals Adhesive-Free Bond (AFB®) Optical Composites
H. C. Lee, Onyx Optics, Inc. |
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A Compact Laser Current Source for Vehicle Mounted Laser Weapon Systems
David Prestel, Northrop Grumman |
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Advanced Thermal Energy Storage Techniques for High Powered Solid State Laser Systems
Dan Rini, Rini Technologies |
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Multi-Evaporator Hybrid Two-Phase Loop Cooling System for Solid-State Lasers
David Bugby, ATK Space |
| 1520-1600 |
Break |
| 1600-1730 |
Power & Thermal (Continued) |
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Ceramic Microchannel Coolers for Laser Diode Arrays
Ed Stephens, Northrop Grumman Cutting Edge Optronics |
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Low Temperature Spray Cooling for Cryogenic Laser Systems
Dan Rini, Rini Technologies |
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Mechanically Pumped Two-Phase System With Multiple Compact Evaporators
Dmitry Khrustalev, ATK Space Division |
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Lightweight and Compact Thermal Management System for Solid-State High-Energy Laser
John Vetrovec, Aqwest, LLC |
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Wednesday, 4 June 2008 (Morning) |
| 0800-1000 |
High Power Lasers (FOUO): Chair: Dave Mordaunt, Northrop Grumman |
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J-HPPSL Nd:YAG Ceramic ThinZag Laser Program
Alex Mandl, Textron |
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Joint High Power Solid State Laser Program Update
Jay Marmo, JHPSSL3 |
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Integrated Solid State Laser Testbed
Sean Ross, Air Force Research Laboratory |
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Strategic Illuminator Laser (SILL) Brassboard Performance Characterization
Hagop Injeyan, Northrop Grumman Corporation |
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Scaling High Power Thin Disk Lasers
Sean Ross, Air Force Research Laboratory |
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Comparison of Spectral Beam Combining Approaches for High Power Fiber Laser Systems
Eric Honea, Aculight Corporation |
| 1000-1030 |
Break |
| 1030-1210 |
High Power Lasers (FOUO - Continued) |
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Exploration of Performance Limits of Fiber Laser Technology for Directed Energy Applications
Ken Dzurko, SPI Lasers LLC |
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Gas-Cooled Disk Laser (GCDL)
John Vetrovec, Aqwest, LLC |
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Boeing Development of the Re-deployable High Energy Laser System (RHELS)
Ronald Dauk, Boeing-SVS, Inc |
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AFRL’s Materials Efforts: Enabling Improved Laser Systems
F. Kenneth Hopkins, Air Force Research Laboratory |
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Rugged, High-Performance Nd:YAG Slab Oscillators and Amplifiers
Van Rudd, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies |
| 1210-1340 |
Lunch & Poster Paper Session |
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Wednesday, 4 June 2008 (Morning) |
| 0800-1010 |
Diode Lasers II: Chair: Martin Stickley, Consultant |
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Invited: Research Activities in the German National Funding Initiative BRIOLAS
Friedrich Bachmann, ROFIN-SINAR Laser GmbH |
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Highly Efficient Diode Laser Bars for CW and Quasi-CW Operation
Rolf Kojima, Osram Opto Semiconductors Inc. |
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High Power - High Brillance 9xx nm Diode Laser Bars
Ralf Hulsewede, JENOPTIK |
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Solder Packaging of Optics for High Power Diode Laser Systems
Erik Beckert, Fraunhofer |
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High-Power Laser Diode Bars and Arrays for Pumping of High Energy Solid State Lasers
Nels Ostrom, Coherent Direct Diode Systems |
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Spectrally Narrowed, Wavelength-Stabilized, High-Efficiency and High-Brightness Diodes for Precision Pumping
Manoj Kanskar, Alfalight Inc |
| 1010-1040 |
Break |
| 1040-1200 |
Diode Lasers II (Continued) |
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Diode-Laser Modules for Pumping of Rubidium Lasers
Trevor Crum, Spectra-Physics Lasers |
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High-Power Distributed Bragg Reflector Lasers
Gary Evans, Photodigm, Inc |
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Low Noise 880nm Diode Pumps for Improved Solid State Laser Performance
Vivek Agrawal, Coherent Inc. |
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Improvements in Microchannel-Cooled High-Efficiency 885-nm Diode Laser Bars
Paul Leisher, nLight |
| 1210-1340 |
Lunch & Poster Paper Session |
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Wednesday, 4 June 2008 (Lunch) |
| 1210-1340 |
Poster Paper Session: Chair: Sean Ross, Air Force Research Laboratory |
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Cavity-Mode Analysis of Northrop-Grumman Passive Beam-Combining Experiments
Erik Bochove, Air Force Research Laboratory |
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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
Jerome Moloney, University of Arizona |
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High Roll-Over Power from 793 nm and 962 nm Asymmetric Epitasial Laser Structures with Optical Trap
Iulian Petrescu-Prahova, Intense HPD |
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Spectral Beam Combining of Fiber Lasers with Automatic Wavelength Control
Oleksiy Andrusyak, University of Central Florida |
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Aerosol Techniques for the Fabrication of HOM Fiber Lasers
Robert Chivas, Boston University |
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Large Aperture Chirped Bragg Gratings in PTR Glass for High Energy fs Pulse Stretching and Compression
Vadim Smirnov, OptiGrate, Inc |
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Wednesday, 4 June 2008 (Afternoon) |
| 1340-1500 |
Visible Lasers: Chair: Kalin Spariosu, Raytheon |
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The Starfire Optical Range Sodium Guidestar Fasor
Craig Denman, Air Force Research Laboratory |
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System Overview and Details of High-Power 589 nm Guidestar Lasers
Neil Vanasse, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies |
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High-Power, Versatile Waveform Generation at 1319 nm in a Solid-state Waveguide-based MOPA System
Nick Swaruk, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies (Speaker change) |
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Quantum Design and Demonstration of a Yellow Orange OPSL
Jerome Moloney, University of Arizona |
| 1500-1530 |
Break |
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Wednesday, 4 June 2008 (Afternoon) |
| 1530-1730 |
Bulk Solid-State Lasers: Chair: Kalin Spariosu, Raytheon |
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Optimized Design of Nd Transverse Doping Profiles in Transparent YAG Ceramics for Edge-Pumped Laser Geometries
Bob Byer, Stanford University |
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Synthesis and Properties of Eye-Safe Single Crystal, Ceramic, and Optical Fiber Sources
Colin McMillan, Clemson University |
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Yb:Y2O3 Ceramic Lasers (withdrawn)
Jas Sanghera, Naval Research Laboratory |
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Efficient 100 kHz Repetition Rate Ultrafast Laser System with OPA/NOPA Frequency Conversion
Iain McKinnie, Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, Inc |
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Towards Temperature Independent Er:Glass Lasers
William Hageman, University of Central Florida |
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Lowest Quantum Defect Er-Doped Laser
Mark Dubinskii, Army Research Laboratory |
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Wednesday, 4 June 2008 (Afternoon) |
| 1340-1500 |
Fiber Lasers I: Chair: Shawn Redmond, Aculight |
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Efficient, High-Power Tm-Doped Silica Fiber Lasers
Kevin Wall, Q-Peak, Inc |
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60W of Average Output Power From a Pulsed Thulium-Doped Fiber Amplifier Operating at 2-microns
Daniel Creeden, BAE Systems |
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Efficient and Reliable 790nm-Pumped Tm Lasers from 1.91 to 2.13µm
G. Frith, Nufern |
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High-Power Fiber-Based Green Laser with Diffraction-Limited Output Beam
Dan Hu, Aculight Corporation |
| 1500-1530 |
Break |
| 1530-1730 |
Fiber Lasers I (Continued) |
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Monolithic, Turn-Key, 1kW Yb-Doped Fiber Master Oscillator Power Amplifier
John Edgecumbe, Nufern |
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Towards 10s of kW Fiber Lasers Based on PCF Technology
Peter Skovgaard, Crystal Fiber A/S |
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Single-Mode Chirally Coupled Core Yb-doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers for High Power Scaling
Craig Swan, University of Michigan |
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Characterizing Higher-Order-Modes Propagating in Large-Mode-Area Fibers
J.W. Nicholson, OFS Laboratories |
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Magnetic Quasi-Phase Matching for Optical Isolation in High-Power Fiber Amplifiers
Gerald Moore, Air Force Research Laboratory |
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Mode Formulation of an N+1-core Evanescently Coupled Fiber Laser Resonator
Erik Bochove, Air Force Research Laboratory |
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Thursday, 5 June 2008 (Morning) |
| 0800-1000 |
Beam Combination & Control: Chair: Steve Kurti, NAVAIR |
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Active Phasing of Fiber Amplifier Arrays using LOCSET
Tom Shay, Air Force Research Laboratory |
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Re-Imaging Assisted Phased Array in a 2-Dimensional Hollow Waveguide
Andrew Bratcher, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies |
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Power Scaling a Coherent Laser Array Using a Self-Fourier Cavity
Christopher Corcoran, Corcoran Engineering, Inc |
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Phase Locking of Three GCSELs Array by a Spatially Profiled Volume Bragg Grating
Leonid Glebov, University of Central Florida |
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Efficient All-Fiber Passive Coherent Combining of Fiber Lasers
Baishi Wang, Vytran LLC |
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Dynamic Characteristics of Passively Phased Fiber Amplifiers Arrays
Sami Shakir, Northrop Grumman |
| 1000-1030 |
Break |
| 1030-1230 |
Beam Combination & Control (Continued) |
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Spatial-Dispersion-Free Spectral Beam Combining of High Power Pulsed Yb-doped Fiber Lasers
Kai Chung Hou, University of Michigan |
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Fiber Laser System with kW-Level Spectrally-Combined Output
Oleksiy Andrusyak, University of Central Florida |
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Rapid Beam Shaping and Focussing Using Tunable Acoustic Gradient Index Lenses
Craig Arnold, Princeton University |
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Atmospheric Propagation of a Beam from a Bundle of Partially-Coherent Fiber Lasers of Good Beam Quality
Fassil Ghebremichael, Lockheed Martin Space System Company |
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Incoherent Combining of High-Power Fiber Lasers For Directed Energy Applications
Phillip Sprangle, Naval Research Laboratory |
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Coherent Multicore Fiber Laser Array
Frederic Durville, Optical Fiber Systems, Inc |
| 1230-1330 |
Lunch |
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Thursday, 5 June 2008 (Morning) |
| 0800-1000 |
Diode Lasers III: Chair: Friedrich Bachmann, ROFIN-SINAR |
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Conduction Cooled Multi-kW QCW Diode Laser Arrays with Low Operating Current
Jihua Du, Coherent Inc |
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Power Beaming with Diode Lasers
Tobias Koenning, DILAS Diode Laser, Inc |
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QWI Enabled QCW High Power 808 nm Laser Diode Arrays
Valentín Loyo-Maldonado, Intense Limited |
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Reliability of High-Performance Semiconductor Laser Diodes in the 800-1000nm Wavelength Band
Erik Zucker, JDS Uniphase Corporation |
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Coherently Combined High-power Intelligent Semiconductor Emitters (COCHISE)
George Turner, MIT/Lincoln Laboratory |
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High-Reliable qcw Pump Laser Stacks
Eckard Deichsel, JENOPTIK |
| 1000-1030 |
Break |
| 1030-1230 |
Diode Lasers III (Continued) |
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Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Arrays for High-Power Applications
Chuni Ghosh, Princeton Optronics |
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Design and Manufacturing of High Efficiency, Fiber Coupled Single Emitter Arrays with >350W from a 200mm Fiber, NA=0.2
Stefan Heinemann, Fraunhofer USA, Inc |
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Fiber-Coupled Diode-Laser Bars Optimized for High Brightness Applications
S. David Roh, Coherent, Inc |
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Highly Reliable, High Brightness, Compact Pump Module
Ed Wolak, Newport Corp |
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Novel High Power Monolithic CW Arrays
P. Thiagarajan, Lasertel Inc |
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Progress in Long-Wavelength High-Power Diode Laser Pump Sources
Paul Leisher, nLight Corporation |
| 1230-1330 |
Lunch |
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Thursday, 5 June 2008 (Afternoon) |
| 1330-1450 |
Fiber Lasers II: Chair: Daniel Creeden, BAE Systems |
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SBS Thresholds for a Single-Frequency Fiber Amplifier with a Thermal Gradient: Co-Pumped and Counter-Pumped Systems
Thomas Shay, Air Force Research Laboratory |
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SBS Mitigation with ‘Two-Tone’ Amplification: A Theoretical Model
T. Justin Bronder, Air Force Research Laboratory |
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Continuous Wave Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Phase Conjugation in Step-Index Optical Fiber
Steven Massey, Air Force Institute of Technology |
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Single-Frequency Photonic Crystal Fiber Amplifier with 220 W Output Power
Christopher Vergien, Air Force Research Laboratory |
| 1450-1520 |
Break |
| 1520-1620 |
Fiber Lasers II (Continued) |
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100 W Femtosecond Yb-Fiber CPA System based on Chirped-Volume-Bragg-Gratings
Guoqing Chang, University of Michigan |
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Eye-Safe Ultrafast Fiber Lasers and Laser Systems Based on Short and Heavily Doped Phosphate-Glass Fiber
Pavel Polynkin, Polar Laser Laboratories |
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Higher Order Mode Amplifiers
C. Headley, OFS Laboratories |
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Thursday, 5 June 2008 (Afternoon) |
| 1330-1500 |
Mid-Infrared Lasers: Chair: Ramesh Shori, NAVAIR |
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New Frontiers of Cr2+ and Fe2+ Doped II-VI Mid-IR Lasers
Sergey Mirov, University of Alabama |
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OPGaAs Materials
Pete Schunemann, BAE Systems |
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OPGaAs Applications (withdrawn)
Pete Budni, BAE Systems |
| 1500-1530 |
Break |
| 1530-1630 |
Mid-Infrared Lasers (Continued) |
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MIR Lasers
Eric Honea, Aculight Corp |
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Fiber Based Mid-IR Sources and Applications (withdrawn)
Jas Sanghera, Naval Research Laboratory |
