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Event Proceedings
2018 Annual Directed Energy Symposium  

The items listed below constitute the proceedings from the 2018 Annual Directed Energy Symposium.
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Attendees List

Symposium Proceedings
Note: Only unclassified, public release presentations, papers, and abstracts are included in these proceedings. Some limited distribution presentations are available through AFRL Directed Energy Engineering and Analysis Center. Please see the listing of our Limited Distribution Proceedings.
 
Plenary Sessions
Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division
Mr. Paul Mann, Technical Director, NSWC PHD
AFRL DE S&T and the DEW Flight Plan
Dr. Diana Loree, Acting Chief Scientist, AFRL
Non-Lethal Directed Energy Weapons and the National Defense Strategy
Ms. Susan Levine, Principal Deputy for Policy and Strategy, JNLWD
Department of Defense Non-Lethal Weapons Program
Mr. David Law, Chief Scientist, JNLWD
Joint Directed Energy Transition Office: Past, Present and Future
Dr. Larry Grimes, Director, DE JTO

Next-Generation Non-Lethal Directed Energy Weapons
Next-Generation Active Denial Technology Portfolio Update
Randy Woods, JNLWD

Key Transforming Non-Lethal Directed Energy Weapon Subsystems and Components
Update: "High Power Density Solutions for Directed Energy Weapon Systems"
Hernando Munevar, Candent Technologies Inc.
Active Denial Joint Safety Review Board Considerations (includes HERO and Battery Safety Issues)
Randy Woods, JNLWD
Next Generation DEW Thermal Management Technologies
John Durbin, Durbin Group

AHPL- High Power Gas & Hybrid Lasers
Characterization of Performance of a Conventional Cs DPAL: Beam Quality, Efficiency, Gain Medium Lifetime
Boris Zhdanov, USAFA
External Cavity Pump Laser for a DPAL Using an Atomic Line Filter
Bill Hersman, UNH and Xemed
A Path Towards 1MW Laser Pump Diodes
John Goings, Lasertel

Power Beaming Metrology, Safety, and Applications
Directed Energy for Relativistic Propulsion
Philip Lubin, University of California
Operational Safety Analysis of Laser Power Beaming (Paper Also Included)
Eric Conrad, US ARMY CERDEC CP&ID
Safe Operation of Laser Power Beaming Systems
Tom Nugent, PowerLight Technologies
Criteria for Comparison of Power Beaming Demonstrations
Paul Jaffe, US NRL
Uniform Comparisons of Power Beaming Efficiency
Tom Nugent, PowerLight Technologies
Panel 1- XISP-Inc Commercial ISSSpace-to-Space Power Beaming Technology Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (TD3) Mission
Panelists: Gary Barnhard, Seth Potter, James McSpadden

Education Workshop I
Directed Energy Professional Society Education Workshop
Mark Neice, DEPS
Gas Breakdown Dynamics: From Microscale to Nanoscale
Amanda Loveless, Purdue University
Test, Evaluation, and Scaling of Advanced Nanodielectric Materials for High Voltage Capacitors
Samuel Dickerson, University of Missouri Center for Physical and Power Electronics
Characterizing Effective Complex Permittivity of Anisotropic Epsilon Negative Metamaterial Liner in a Rectangular Waveguide for Metamaterial Enhanced Resistive Wall Amplifiers
Patrick Forbes, University of Wisconsin-Madison
High Power Fiber Laser Development at UCF
Justin Cook, Laser Plasma Laboratory, University of Central Florida

BC- Turbulence Measurements
Using Differential Temperature Sensors to Calculate Cn2 - Experimental Campaign at West Point
Jacob O'Neill, USMA

Material Interaction/ High Fidelity
Experimental Measurement of Hole Formation in Metal as a Function of Angle of Incidence from a HEL
Nolan Hedglin, USMA
Prediction of Thermal Decomposition Behaviors of Polymer Matrix Composites using Unified Kinetic Model Parameters
Sangwook Sihn, University of Dayton Research Institute

USPL I
Experiment-Theory Comparison of Metastable Electronic State Approach Light-Matter Interaction in Laser Filamentation
Anand Bahl, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
Designing an Amplifier for a Fully Characterized Yb:KGW Ultra Short Pulsed Laser System
Ian Greer, Photonics Research Center USMA

Power Beaming Technology & Demonstrations 1
Theoretical Energy-conversion Efficiency for RF Energy Harvesters
Christopher Valenta, Georgia Tech Research Institute Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory

Component Response
The Effects of Rotation Speed, Engagement Power, and Inert Thermal Sinks on the Laser Heating of Cold Rolled Steel
John Roll, USMA

Power Beaming Technology & Demonstrations 2
Review of Laser Power Beaming Demonstrations by PowerLight Technologies
Tom Nugent, PowerLight Technologies
Concepts for Power Beaming with Directed Energy Systems and Thermal Receivers
Bert Murray, Lighthouse DEV LLC
Laser Wireless Power Transmission
Christopher Giranda, DHPC Technologies

Education Workshop II
Solid State Lasers Controlled by Volume Holographic Elements
Evan Hale, University of Central Florida, CREOL, PPL
Thermal Effects of Environmental Degradation at Optical Surfaces for Directed Energy Applications
Joshua LaFlam, US Naval Academy
Measuring Semiconductor Deterioration and Charactering Laser Radiation Damage (Paper Also Included)
Maeve Broeg, US Naval Academy
Optical Investigation of a Regularized Shear Layer for Wavefront Prediction
Matthew Kemnetz, University of Notre Dame
Rapid Detection and Localization of High Energy Laser Strike using the Electrical Response of Carbon-Nanotube Sheet as a Sensor
Andrew Sumida, US Naval Academy

AHPL-Solid State Lasers 1
Incoherent Laser Beam Combining by Coaxially Overlapping Technique for High Energy Laser Weapon
Ryuji Nagaoka, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.

HPM Technologies
A New TM01c-fed Low Profile, High Gain, Leaky Wave HPM Antenna
Robert Koslover, Scientific Applications and Research Associates (SARA)
Connecting the Dots Between Component Level and Equipment Level Electromagnetic Effects Testing (Paper Also Included)
Michael Hatfield, Booz Allen Hamilton

Education Workshop III
Updates to the Development of Low-Pressure High-Density Plasmas on the Helicon Plasma Experiment (HPX)
CDR Royce W. James, Ph.D., USCGA
Thomson Scattering and Langmuir Probe Development on the Helicon Plasma Experiment (HPX)
2/c Anita Green, 4/c Maylis Yepez, and 4/c Trent Robledo-Thompson, USCGA
Optical Turbulence: A Comparison of Existing and Theoretical Models at Low Altitude in a Near Maritime Environment (Paper Also Included)
Richard Watson, US Naval Academy
Calibration and Testing of Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors for Detection of High Energy Radiation (Paper Also Included)
Mathew Kautzman, US Naval Academy
Effects of Directed Near-Infrared Radiation on Saltwater Drops (Paper Also Included)
Samuel Valley, US Naval Academy
Heat Transfer Analysis of Thermal Damage Behind HEL Irradiated Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Skin
Nicholas Stovall-Kurtz, US Naval Academy

Poster Session
Building and Testing a Thermal Conductivity Setup to Measure Laser Gain Materials
Matthew Boyd, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Team Apollo: Fire Detection
Cameron Hart, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Design, Optimization and Experimental Characterization of Frequency Selective Structures and Metamaterials Comprised of 3D Elements
Danny Zhu, Pennsylvania State University
Development of a Single Picosecond Pulse CO2 Laser System for Long-Wave Infrared Atmospheric Studies
Eric Welch, University of California, Los Angeles
Ultrashort Pulse Laser Interaction with Materials at Mid-IR Wavelength
Robert Schwartz, University of Maryland

Key Transforming Non-Lethal Directed Energy Weapon Subsystems and Components III
Overview of SiC Research at TTU
Stephen Bayne, Texas Tech University

AHPL- Solid State Lasers 2
Enabling Mission Readiness & Conquering Frontiers in Contamination Control
James Hamilton, Photonic Cleaning Technologies
MILCON P777 Directed Energy Systems Integration Lab (DESIL)
Terry Robinson, NSWC PHD

 
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