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DIRECTED ENERGY
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY
Beam Control Conference 2008 |
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3-7 March 2008 |
Monterey, California | |
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The beam control aspects of High Energy Lasers (HEL) Systems are critical to system performance.
The need for communication of concepts and ideas in this active field is vitally important.
DEPS sponsored the third Beam Control Conference specifically to accommodate the need
for communication of beam control information. This conference was part of the
Directed Energy Systems Symposium 2008.
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Conference Highlights
- Plenary session
- Classified and limited distribution technical presentations and poster papers
- Unclassified proceedings published after the conference.
- Invited speakers
- Short courses
- Evening reception
- Exhibits
- A Conference making up the DE Systems Symposium
- Attendance at all sessions is limited to U.S. citizens with a classified visit request
on file and who are employees of the U.S. government or its contractors.
Previous Conference
Information about the previous Beam Control
Conference is available.
Call for Papers
The DE Beam Control Technical Program Committee is soliciting contributed papers to be presented
at the Conference in areas outlined under the technical sessions listed below. Please consider
submitting a presentation and/or paper to the DEPS Beam Control Conference. All weapon system
platforms are of interest. Concepts, risk reduction experiments, system demonstrations, and
testing in the following broad areas are welcome. Special consideration will be given to
papers that relate the above technical areas to the improvement of existing or planned HEL systems.
| Important Dates for Presenters |
- 26 October 2007
- Abstracts due
- 8 February 2008
- Presentations due with release forms
- 29 February 2008
- Papers due with release forms
- 3-7 March 2008
- Symposium
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The technical sessions now envisioned include the following topics:
- Beam Control descriptions (major systems, experiments, demonstrations)
- Descriptions of operation and/or performance of systems such as the ABL, ATL, THEL, etc.
Test results are of special interest.
- Descriptions of major experiments/demonstrations such as HELLADS Demonstration Laser
Weapon System, HEL-TD, ARMS, etc.
- Tracking and Advanced Sensors for DE Systems.
- Acquisition, tracking and aimpoint maintenance algorithms for both strategic and tactical targets
- Innovative or advanced beam control sensors and their respective algorithms
- Robust tracker/beam pointing mode control for HEL systems.
- Target characteristics that impact tracking and aimpoint maintenance such as engagement
geometries, specified aimpoint / trackpoint positions, etc.
- Beam Control and Optics Technology
- Innovative beam control concepts and architectures for jitter control, beam clean up, inertial referencing,
and beam pointing.
- Optical components and designs supporting beam control systems; gimbals, fast steering mirrors,
stable platforms, stable alignment sources, deformable mirrors, etc.
- Approaches to get desired beam control system performance in lightweight, compact, possibly simplified designs
- Aero-Optics and Atmospheric Propagation
- Analysis of aero-optics effects based on CFD modeling, wind tunnel testing, or flight data.
- Atmospheric measurements of propagation paths of interest to ground based, airborne, or sea environments.
- Concepts for correction of aero-optics and atmospherics in combined systems.
- Adaptive Optics and Fiber Arrays
- Innovative hardware concepts for using adaptive optics
- Conceptual designs for fiber HEL systems
- Demonstrations of adaptive optics
- Demonstrations of fiber arrays.
Submission Instructions
Abstracts
Abstracts of proposed presentations must be suitable for public release and are due 26 October 2007
for consideration in the Beam Control Conference. Abstracts should be written in the format
described below and sent in electronic format (Microsoft Word or PDF) to the Conference
Program Committee at beam@deps.org. Abstracts must include
the following information in 500 words or less:
- Title
- Authors
- Organizational affiliation
- Authors’ postal and email addresses
- Oral presentation or poster session preference
- Short synopsis
- Expected classification of the contribution
The expected classification of presentations and papers include Unclassified, Limited distribution,
FOUO, Export Controlled, Secret, and Secret NOFORN.
Although they will be accepted as late as 16 November, early submittals will be given
special consideration. Abstracts will be selected by the Technical Program Committee for
inclusion in the technical program based on pertinence to the Conference
theme, scheduling needs of the Conference, and the perceived importance of the contribution to
the DE Beam Control community. Authors will be notified on or before 30 November 2007 of
acceptance of their paper for presentation and/or publication. Instruction for submission of
presentations will be available then.
Authors are encouraged to submit papers as well as presentations. Unlcassified papers written in the
format of the Journal of Directed
Energy will be published as part of the Conference proceedings
and will be forwarded to the Journal of Directed Energy for consideration.
Conference Committee
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