Plenary
Session
Directed Energy Weapon
Supply Chains: Securing the Path to the Future
Ms. Rebecca Wostenberg,
NDIA Senior Director for Research
Joint Directed Energy
Transition Office (JDETO) Update
Dr. Mark Spencer,
Director, JDETO, OUSD(R&E)
Directed Energy at Air
Force Research Laboratory
Dr.
Don Shiffler, Chief Scientist for Directed Energy, AFRL/RD
HPM
Antennas and Networks
Distributed HPM
Performance and Capabilities
John Lancaster, Samuel
Wagner, Devin Schneider, Jason Merlo, Jeffery Nanzer, Lars Voss, LLNL
Propagation of HPM in
COTS Vacuum Bellows Hose Utilized as Rugged Flexible Waveguide
Douglas Wilson, NSWC
Dahlgren
Space Compatible
Anechoic Technologies Retrofit (SCATR)
Matthew Hildner, Verus
Research
Challenges, Solutions,
and the Future of High Power Microwave Antennas PAPER
Hannah Trock, Anna
Janicek, AFRL/RDH
Phased Array Radar, the
new HPM Beam Director? PAPER
Steve Van Dyke,
Microwave Applications Group
A Simple HPM Antenna
that Works with Many Waveguide Modes
Robert Koslover, SARA
Advanced
Microwave Sources
UWB-HPM Simulators for
Advanced Threat Assessment: An Update
Zach Drikas, NRL
Simulation and Analysis
of DSRD Doping Profiles
Alex Usenko, Jay
Eifler, Anthony Caruso, Steven Bellinger, U. of Missouri Kansas City
Solid-State High Power
Microwave (HPM) Payload for a small-Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS)
Shawn Higgins, NAWCWD
China Lake
Development of a Custom
Spiral Generator Winding Machine
Jonathan Walker, Evan
Glynn, Logan Caskey, Isaac Cohen, Radiance Technologies and Mark Rader, Clyde Elliott,
Zachary Roberts, U.S. Army SMDC
Design and Operation of
a High Rep-Rate, Solid-State Switched, Bipolar Spiral Generator
Isaac Cohen, Jonathan
Walker, Daniel Harthan, Logan Caskey, William Hooper, Radiance Technologies
and Alex Vellozzi, Megan Henry, Alex Henson, Kenneth E. Miller, Jacob Hagen,
James Prager, Eagle Harbor Technologies and Trey Gloeckler, Austin Hewitt, Sean
Love, John Mankowski, James Dickens, Andreas Neuber, Jacob Stephens, Texas Tech
University and Mark Rader, Clyde Elliott, Zachary Roberts, U.S. Army SMDC
A Solid State
Gyromagnetic Nonlinear Transmission Line with Exponential Taper for High Power
Microwave Generation
Travis Crawford, Allen Garner,
Purdue University
Small Form Factor HPM
for Tube Launched Drones
Vincent Squitieri,
Epirus
Electromagnetic
Effects
Discovering Multiple
Resonances in Complex Electronic Targets using Iterative Time Reversal
Bisrat Addissie, Matthew
Kunkle, Zachary Drikas, Matthew Dunlop-Gray, NRL
Device-Level Modeling
and Characterization for Prediction of System-Level Susceptibility
Cody Goins, A. Harmon,
M. Starkey, D. Szanto, J. McGeehan, A. Hassan, V. Khilkevich, D. Beetner,
Missouri S&T
The Feasibility of a
Direct Injection Probe with a Capacitively Coupled Return and Integrated
Voltage Monitor
Aaron Harmon, Daniel
Szanto, Victor Khilkevich, Daryl Beetner, Missouri S&T
Power
and Thermal for DE
Power Management for DE
Ami Shah, U.S. Army
DEVCOM C5ISR
Evaluation of Electric
Vehicle Batteries to Enable Directed Energy
Jacob Dyer, Adam Lands,
Alex Lanter, Radiance Technologies and David Wetz, Max Manker, Tyler Scoggins,
UTA and John Heinzel, NSWCPD
Thermal Modeling of
LNAs using Modelica and Dymola
Kyle Roe, Robert
Gardner, Georgia Tech Research Institute and Joseph Croman, NRL
Safe Impact Resistant
Electrolyte for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Nader Shokair, Safire
Technology Group
High Power Advanced
Li-S Batteries for Directed Energy Systems
David Olawale,
Valgotech
Hazard Analysis of DC
Arc Flash from Electrochemical Prime Power
Nicolaus Jennings, David
Wetz, University of Texas and John Heinzel, NSWC Philadelphia
Analysis and Design of
Compact High-Voltage Power Supplies Optimized for Directed Energy Applications
Daniel Schemmel, B.
Cornella, J. Parson, S. Calico, J. Neuber, SARA
SERENE Generator -
Silent Electrical Radioisotope Energy for Nomadic Expeditions
Eric Bentsen, Cerebral
Energy
In-Fiber Thermal
Management Through Anti-Stokes Fluorescence
Bailey Meehan, Thomas
Hawkins, John Ballato, Clemson University and Alexander Pietros, Peter
Dragic, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Chun-Wei Chen, Michel Digonnet,
Stanford University and Magnus Engholm, Mid Sweden University
Pulsed
Lasers and Propagation
High Energy Picosecond
Laser Filament-Guided Electrical Discharges in Air at 1 kHz Repetition Rate
Jorge Rocca, Y. Wang,
K. Dehne, A. Higginson, F. Tomase, M. Capeluto, V. Shlyaptsev, Colorado State
University
HEL
Coatings Special Session
Optical Thin Film
Coatings Introduction
Al Ogloza, ManTech SETA
to JDETO
Fiber
Lasers
Improving the Quantum
Efficiency in Erbium Doped Fibers with High Doping Concentrations Via
Nanoparticle Doping: A Path Towards Power Scaling to Greater Than 1 kW
Peter Dragic, Jennifer
Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Mary Ann Cahoon,
Bailey Meehan, Thomas Hawkins, John Ballato, Clemson University
Thermal Management and
the Power Scaling of Fiber Lasers for Directed Energy Applications
Peter Dragic,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Thomas Hawkins, John Ballato,
Clemson University and Michel Digonnet, Stanford University
Temperature
Eigenfunctions for Accelerated Time-domain Transverse Mode Instability
Simulation
John Hunt, J.
Talghader, University of Minnesota
Two-Tone, Polarization
Scrambled Fiber Laser Power Scaling
Arjun Vinze, Johns
Hopkins University
Novel
Lasers
Optical Designs from
the Mind’s Eye PAPER
Rodney Harris, River
Electro-Optics, LLC
Diamond Raman Lasers
for 1.5 um Generation
Ryan Ellis, Nathan
Bodnar, Martin Richardson, Robert Bernath, University of Central Florida
Laser
Components
Antiresonant Tube (ART)
Fibers - Modeling, Fabrication, and Applications PAPER
Ryan Lane, AFRL and
Michael Messerly, Paul Pax, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Laser
Effects
Finite Element Modeling
of Laser Damage-induced Drag and Lateral Forces on an Airborne Object
Marcos Gonzalez-Rafols,
D. Grbovic, K. Cohn, J. Blau, Naval Postgraduate School
Numerical Simulation of
Hypersonic Plasma Flow Physics
Colton Stoner, John
Tam, Harrison Keith, Craig Smith, AFRL
HEL Effects on
Diffusely Reflective CDEW Coatings
Nickolaus Weise, Robert
Cozzens, NRL
Effects of Pulse
Length, Spot Size, and Ignitor-Heater for a Far-Infrared Ultra-Short Pulse
Laser for Plasma Formation on an Insulating Surface
Oli Sale, Leidos
Atmospheric
Propagation
Modeling & Numerical Weather Prediction
Sensitivity of HEL
Propagation Prediction to Bulk Meteorological NWP Inputs
Conor Pogue, Kyle
Drexler, Josh Rudiger, NIWC Pacific
Nowcasting,
Nearcasting, and Forecasting: Atmospheric and Optical System Performance
Prediction
Yakov Diskin, Mitchell
Grose, Kevin
Jackovitz, Matt Miltner, Matt Whiteley, Jason Schmidt, Bob Crabbs, Thomas
Miletich, Matthew Salfer-Hobbs, MZA Associates
Improving Numerical
Weather Prediction of Optical Turbulence Through Observational Constraints
Yuling Wu, Udaysankar
Nair, Christopher Phillips, Arastoo Biazar, Daniel Whitley, U. of Alabama
Huntsville and Jay Land, U.S. Army SMDC
Using AI/ML
In-Situ
Machine-Learning-Based High-Rate Atmospheric Path Characterization Sensing
Signal Forecasting
Mikhail
Vorontsov, University of Dayton/Optonica and Vladixlav Pravilnikov, Optonica
Machine Learning
Prediction of Optical Turbulence Using Two-Level Observations Collected over a
Year at NRL-CEOBS
Amanda Coleman, J.
Blau, K Cohn, Naval Postgraduate School
Measurement & Analysis
Overview of the
Meteorological Assessment of Propagation of Laser Energy (MAPLE) Experimental
Data Collection Event Conducted at the Defense Research and Development Canada
(DRDC) Valcartier Research Center
Evan Bates, NSWC
Dahlgren
A Schema for Real-time
Atmospheric Data Collection and Modeling
Galen Cauble, Brett
Jeske, NIWC Pacific
Vertical Turbulence
Profiling with Imaging and Wavefront Measurements
Matthew Whiteley, Richard
Drye, Kevin Jackovitz, Mitchell Grose, George Lewandowski, MZA Associates
Thermal Blooming
Measurements Using a kW Interferometer
Richard Fischer, Dave
Flagg, Jerry Schmidt, NRL and Evan Bates, Luke Martin, NSWC Dahlgren and Josh
Rudiger, Steve Hammel, NIWC
Aerosol Extinction
Measurements at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User Facility in
Utqiagvik, AK
David Hostutler, Quincy
Zawadzky, Greg Pitz, AFRL and Marilyn Dunbar, The Ohio State University
Eclipse Turbulence
Evaluation and Sensor Testing (eTEST)
Matthew Whiteley, Richard
Drye, Kevin Jackovitz, Yakov Diskin, Eric Magee, Mitchell Grose, MZA Associates
Persistent Data
Collection Site (PDCS) in North Alabama: An Observational Testbed for the
Development of ACDS
Daniel Whitley, Udaysankar
Mair, Matthew Austin, Michael Yurochak,, U. of Alabama Huntsville and Jay Land,
Radiance Technologies
Comparison of
Path-Resolved Optical Turbulence Measurements Using Two MZA DELTAs
Danica Konyk, J. Blau,
K. Cohn, A. Coleman, Naval Postgraduate School
Modeling & Measurement
Recent and Planned Enhancements to Weather
Integration Prototype
Melissa Beason, Steven
Fiorino, Jaclyn Schmidt, Brannon Elmore, Anthony Erickson, Justin Sherman,
Santasri Bose-Pillai, Jack McCrae, AFIT and Deleon Narcisse, Air Force Life
Cycle Management Center/XA
An Analysis of
Aerodynamic vs Bowen Ratio Energy Balance Methods for Optical Turbulence (Cn2)
Computations in the Maritime Environment
Laura Slabaugh, Steven
Fiorino, Yogendra Raut, Jaclyn Schmidt, Benjamin Wilson, Santasri Bose-Pillai, Blaine
Fourman, Melissa Beason, Kevin Keefer, AFIT
Atmospheric
Characterization Diagnostics System: Aerosol Optical Properties Model
Development and Evaluation
Udaysankar Nair,
Therese Parkes, Daniel Whitley, Yuling Wu, Christopher Phillips, University of
Alabama in Huntsville and Jay Land, U. S. Army SMDC
Outer Length Scales in
Convective Boundary Layers
Sukanta Basu,
University at Albany
Atmospheric
Characterization Diagnostics System: Optical Turbulence Model Development and
Evaluation
Udaysankar Nair, Daniel
Whitley, Yuling Wu, Christopher Phillips, Michael Yorovchak, University of
Alabama in Huntsville and Jay Land, U. S. Army SMDC
Beam
Control
Optics
A Study of Adaptive
Optics Configurations for Various High Energy Laser Weapon System Missions
Robert Praus, Keith Beardmore, Justin
Mansell, Matthew Whiteley, MZA Associates
Results, Action Items,
and Plan Forward from the 2023 HEL Optics Metrology Workshop
James Hadaway, Milan
Buncick, Patrick Reardon, U. of Alabama Huntsville
3D-Printed Cordierite
Mirrors for HEL Applications
Jake Sames, Eric
Frantz, Josh Fox, Penn State – ARL
Multi-Conjugate
Adaptive Optics Design and Experiments
Jae Jun Kim, Brij
Agrawal, Naval Postgraduate School
Adaptive Optics, Tracking M&S
Modeling Methods for
Adaptive Optics Compensation of Thermal Blooming
Matt Whiteley, Eric
Magee, Amy Ngwele, Jason Tellez, George Lewandowski, MZA Associates
Hidden Phase
Compensation with Coherent Beam Combination via Tiled Arrays
Matthias Banet, Noah Van Zandt, AFRL/RD and
Justin Deterding, Jane Burward-Hoy, James Dilts, Stellar Science and Eric
Magee, MZA Corporation and Edwin Ahn, Chris Brown, Eric Thompson, NSWC Dalgren,
Jack McCrae, AFIT
Tracking Limitations
Imposed on Beam-Control Systems Without Adaptive-Optics Compensation
Matthew Kalensky, Darren
Getts, Mark Spencer, NSWC Dahlgren
Lasers and Their
Application in Space-Based Solar Power Systems
Jacob Lowe, U.S. Navy
Wavefront Sensing and
Control in Strong Scintillations: A Framework for Iterative Phase Retrieval
Technique Integration
Mikhail
Vorontsov, University of Dayton/Optonica and Ernst Polnau, University of Dayton
Adaptive Optics, Tracking Hardware
TrackTools: Modular
Toolbox of Acquisition, Tracking, and Aimpoint Maintenance Algorithms
Yakov Diskin, Kevin
Jackovitz, Keith Beardmore, Eric Smith, Brandon Hampshire, Franz Chavez, Matt
Miltner, MZA
Associates
Progress in Scalable
Beam Director Technology
Robert Praus, MZA
Associates
Performance Comparison
of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Sensors and Purpose-Built Focal Planes for
Fast-Tracking Systems PAPER
Joshua Follansbee, John
Lund, Andrew Thies, C. Kyle Renshaw, Ronald Driggers, University of Arizona
Gated Fast Framing SWIR
EBAPS Sensor for 2D Fine Tracking & Adaptive Optics
Verle Aebi, Edwin Yin,
Bruce True, Emil Wilke, Kenneth Costello, Selim Bencuya, EOTECH, Ltd.
Progress on the High
Frame Rate 2D-3D SWIR Active Imaging Sensor for Targeting and Directed Energy
Applications
Richard Scritchfield, Joanna
Martin, Pradip Mitra, Renae Martinez, Leonardo DRS
Aero-Optics
Numerical Simulation of
Aero-Optical Distortion for Supersonic Mixing Layers
Andreas Gross, Pedro
Castillo, Roberto Torres, New Mexico State University
Synthetic Wavefront
Generation for Aero-Optics Correction
Jeffrey Utley, Gregery
Buzzard, Charles Bouman, Purdue University and Matthew Kemnetz, Air Force
Research Laboratory
Experimental
Investigation of Aero-Optical Distortions due to Turbulent Boundary Layers at
Large Backward-Looking Angles
Stanislav Gordeyev, Luke
Butler, University of Notre Dame
Optical Effects of a
Temperature-Mismatched and Species-Mismatched Supersonic Mixing Layer, and
Thermal Effects on a Film-Cooled Optical Window
Aaron Fassler,
University of Notre Dame
Study of Aeromechanical
Jitter of a Hemispherical Turret
Timothy Bukowski, R.
Mark Rennie, Stanislav Gordeyev, University of Notre Dame and Matthew Kemnetz,
U.S. AFRL
Quantifying the
Capabilities of the Reflective Atmospheric Turbulence Simulator PAPER
Samuel Horst, BlueHalo
Using AI/ML
Phase Discontinuity
Classification from Single-Aperture Irradiance Patterns Using Machine Learning
Thomas DeFoor,
University of Notre Dame
Mission
Level MS&A
An Evaluation of
HELEEOS Modeled Performance and PWEX BQM Diagnostics
Steven Fiorino, Jaclyn
Schmidt, Brannon Elmore, Kevin Keefer, MSgt Anthony Erickson, Justin Sherman, AFIT/ENP
and Chris Beairsto, Sean Tierney, Mike Thurston, High Energy Laser Systems Test
Facility
Directed Energy Battle
Management - Strategies, Concepts, and System Solutions
Bonnie Johnson, Naval
Postgraduate School
Exploring the Use of a
Ground-Based Laser to Deorbit Small Orbital Debris
Thomas Colvin,Jericho
Locke, NASA Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy
Improving our
Understanding of Novel Weapon Effectiveness
Daniel Bray, Alasdair
Jones, Matt Ross, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
Utilizing a DE System
as a Cooperative Transmitter for Bistatic Radar
Tyler Miller, Epirus
Non-Materiel
Solutions
Elements of Transition
Sean Ross, AFLCMC/XA
Modeling and Analysis
of Satellite Safety Solutions - Decentralized Deconfliction and Space Ranges
for Laser Testing PAPER
John Dewsnap, S.
Gabriel, J. Strebler, Serco and Maj McLemore, Maj Nadobny, Space Delta 5
DE-IFC-Nonlethal
Weapons
Next Generation Active
Denial Technology Roadmap Update
Simin Feng, JIFCO
JIFCO Non-Lethal Laser
Induced Plasma Effects Roadmap and Portfolio
Brittany Lynn, NIWC
Pacific
DE
Bioeffects
Towards Model
Validation of RF-Induced Thermoelastic Stresses PAPER
ONLY
Amy Dagro, Seth
McCormick, Tyson Loudon, Dave Hairston, Chris Sinks, Jason McDonald, Brian
Fagan, Ian Berke, ARL
EpiCorneal Ocular
Tissue Models as Test Bed for Parameterizing Superficial Corneal Disruption
Xomalin Peralta, AFRL,
Bioeffects Division
A Dose Response Model
for Supratheshold Retinal Exposures
Chad Oian, AFRL,
Bioeffects Division
Directed Energy Weapon
Initial Operational Employment Review and Approval Process (DEWRAP)
Semih Kumru, AFRL,
Bioeffects Division
Poster
Session
Open Posters
Multi-Threat Engineered
Diamond Armor Layer (MEDAL) Material
Eric Bentsen, Cam Chidiac,
Tyler Dolmetsch, Cerebral Energy
Wavelength-Agile Raman Plasma
(WARP) Amplification Technology
Eric Bentsen, Cam
Chidiac, Cerebral Energy
Quantum-Induced
Electrical Deadzone (QIED) Area Denial and Blackout Device
Eric Bentsen, Cam
Chidiac, Cerebral Energy
Utilization of
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Optical Turbulence Prediction and Diagnosis
Ankur Kumar, Joseph
Bonnuchi, Udaysankar Nair, Daniel Whitley, Yuling Wu, University of Alabama in
Huntsville and Jay Land, Radiance Technologies
Computational Toolkit
for Processing Sonic Anemometer Observations from the PCDS
Jacob Cook, Richard
Minor, Udaysankar Nair, Daniel Whitley, U. of Alabama Huntsville
Deformable Mirrors in
Directed Energy
Jonathan DiFabio, Jeffrey
Cavaco, Audrey Brooks, AOA Xinetics
Evaluation of Pure and
Composite Phase Change Materials Designed for DE Pulsed Thermal Load
Applications
Terry DuBois, Olivia
Rogers, Ted Reyes, US Army, DEVCOM, C5ISR, Power Div.
Broadband Antenna
Patches for Non-Linear Metamaterial Applications (Update)
Jesus Gil Gil, Dimitrios
Loannou, NRL
Packaging Design and
Victory Device Simulations of a SiC Drift Step Recovery Diode
David Graves, Megan
Lehmann Argenis Bilbao, Stephen Bayne, Texas Tech University and Emily Schrock,
Sandia National Laboratories
HEL Deformable Mirrors
and Fast Steering Mirrors
Jesse Jameson, Justin
Mansell, Brandon Dyer, Active Optical Systems, LLC
Chaotic Noise Algorithm
Development and Linewidth Broadener Design
Dan Matyas, US Army
SMDC and Zachary Helton, Aubrey Beal, University of Alabama at Huntsville
Computation of Cn2 from
the PDCS Sonic Anemometer Observations
Richard Minor, Jacob
Cook, Udaysankar Nair, Yuling Wu, Daniel Whitley, Jay Land, U. of Alabama
Huntsville
Locating Components
Responsible for Radiated Susceptibilities Using a Mode Stirred Tent
McKennan Starkey, C.
Goins, A. Harmon, A. Hassan, J. McGeehan, V. Khilkevich, D. Beetner Missouri
S&T
Limited
Distribution Poster
High Responsivity
Optical GaN Switch
Dana Teague, J.
Merrett, K. Sheets, AFRL/RDLA and M. Paquette, S. Dhungama, G. Bhattarai, H.
Thompson, University Missouri, Kansas City and J. Leach, K. Udwary, H. Splawn,
Kyma Technolgies
Education
Workshop
CDEW/HEL/BC
AFIT Directed Energy
Summer Intern Program
Sara Topp, AFIT
High Power
Demonstration of Low Loss Fusion Splice of Solid-Core Fiber to Hollow-Core
Fiber
Tim Bate, Joseph
Wahlen, Oles Fylypiv, Jose Antonio-Lopez, Axel Schülzgen, Rodrigo Amezcua
Correa, University of Central Florida
An Interferometric
Method for Measuring Phase Variation in Reflection Coatings for
Multi-Wavelength Adaptive Optics
Zach Tebow, J. Hunt, A.
Ogloza, J. Talghader, University of Minnesota
Integrated Cooling of
Additively Manufactured Optical Components with Applications in Directed
Energy PAPER
Christian Arbeeny, Connor
Smith, Charles Nelson, Brian Jenkins, U.S. Naval Academy
Measurement of Optical
Turbulence with Single and Double Sided Methodology in the Near-maritime
Environment PAPER
Toby Davis, U.S. Naval
Academy
USPL/HPM
Ultrafast Parametric
Laser Source in LWIR for Strong-Field Science
Jacob Barker, Pavel
Polykin, University of Arizona
Nanosecond Pulsed Fiber
Laser Development
Ryan Ellis, University
of Central Florida
Boosting Radio
Frequency Radiation with Collisional Processes in Picosecond Laser
Filamentation
Erin Thornton, Jennifer
Elle, Travis Garrett, University of North Texas
Speed Limits in a
Rapidly Rotating Plasma
Jenny Smith, John
Foster, Remington Reid, University of Michigan
