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Ultrashort Pulse Laser Workshop Agenda
2-5 September 2008 Boulder, Colorado

WEDNESDAY MORNING

 

0700     Registration and Breakfast at Hotel

0800     Opening Remarks

            Carlton Land,  Joint Non-Lethal Weapons  Directorate

0815     Applications of Ultrafast Laser Pulses

            Jay Lowell,  DARPA/DSO

0900     From the Laboratory to the Marketplace: The Future of USP Lasers

            Barry Schuler, Raydiance

0945     Break


USP Physics and Techniques I
     

1015     Session Begins

1020     Femtosecond Laser Acoustic Source Characterization and Nonlinear Optical Studies in Water

            Melissa Hornstein, NRL Plasma Physics

1050     Two-Dimensional Spectral Interferometry: A Spatio-Temporal Characterization Tool for Linear

            and Nonlinear Ultrashort Laser Propagation

            Thomas Planchon, Colorado School of Mines

1120     Exciton-Plasmon Interaction in Strongly Coupled Cavity Studied by Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy

            Arup Neogi, University of North Texas

1150     Lunch

 

 

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON

 

USPL Source Development I

1250     Session Begins

1255     High Power and High Energy fs Fiber Laser System

            Jian Liu, PolarOnyx

1325     Cryogenically-Cooled Yb:YAG Amplifier with 287-W Output Power in 5.5 ps Pulses

            Juiet Gopinath, Lincoln Laboratory

1355     The Development of Near and Mid-IR Ultrafast Laser Systems at Q-Peak

            Evgueni Slobodtchikov, Q-Peak, Inc

1425     Break


USPL Applications I

1440     Session Begins

1445     Chirped Bragg Gratings in PTR Glass for High Energy fs Pulse Stretching and Compression

            Vadim Smirnov, OptiGrate

1515     Stand-Off Interdiction Effects Produced by Self-Channeled Femtosecond Lasers

            Martin Richardson, University of Central Florida

1545     Coherent Diffractive Imaging Using  Tabletop High-Harmonic EUV Sources at 29 and 13 nm

            Daisy Raymondson, University of Colorado

1615     Remarks and Reception Invitation

            Carlton Land and Cynnamon Spain

1625     Reception - Hotel Patio

 

 

THURSDAY MORNING

 

0700     Registration and Breakfast at Hotel

0800     Opening Remarks

            Carlton Land, Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate

0815     Progress and Plans for the Texas Petawatt Laser Facility

            Todd Ditmire, University of Texas

0900    White Light Femtosecond Lasers: Defense and Evolving Capability

            Richard Fork, University of Alabama

0930     Break


USPL Source Development II

0940     Session Begins

0945     High Power 50 J Pre-Packaged Brassboard USP Laser

            David Gaudiosi, Raydiance

1020     All-Fiber, High-Power, Variable-Repetition-Rate, Short-Pulse Source Development

            Deborah Alterman, Aculite Corporation

1055     High Repetition Rate Power-Scalable Ultra-Fast Laser Architecture

            Sterling Backus, Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories

1130     Lunch

 

 

THURSDAY AFTERNOON

 

USPL Applications II

1230     Session Begins

1235     Frequency Dependent Interaction of Ultrashort Fields with Nociceptor Membranes and Proteins

            Brian Cooper, University of Florida

1305     Effects of Ultra-Short Laser Pulses on Commercial Sensors and Focal Plane Arrays

            Jamie Kriebel, Penn State Electro-Optics Center

1335     Measuring Nanosecond Heat Transport with EUV Light From HHG

            Mark Siemens, University of Colorado

1405    Break


USPL Physics and Modeling

1420     Session Begins

1425     Implicit Modeling of Short Pulse Laser Interactions and Lightning/Arcs

            R.J. Mason, Research Applications Corporation

1455    UPL: Impulse Generation; Propulsion; and Aerodynamic Applications

            Kevin Kreymeyer, Physics, Materials, and Applied Mathemetics

1525    Closing Comments

            Carlton Land, Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate

1530    Tours - Kapteyn-Murnane Labortatories

            Bus Transportation Provided

 

 

FRIDAY MORNING

 

0700     Registration and Breakfast at Hotel

0730     Buses to Offsite Location

0800     Opening Remarks

0805     High Energy Ultra Short Pulsed Laser Testing for IRCM Applications

0835     Laser CM Testing of Targets at Range: Preliminary Results

0905     USPL NL Vision

0935     Break

0950     Filament Formation Studies and Applications

1020     Electrical Measurements of Laser Filament Guided Discharges

1050     Sandia Update

1120     Concluding Remarks and Closure of Conference

1135     Buses Return from Offsite Location

 

 
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