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2006 SSDLTR Technical Digest |
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The papers listed below constitute the Technical Digest published from the
2006 Solid State Diode Laser Technology Review.
These, and other DEPS event proceedings, are available through the
DEPS online store.
Unless otherwise noted, papers only are included for each entry.
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Laser Target Designators and Rangefinders: Integration and Production, a Merchant Suppliers Perspective (Abstract only)
Dr. Jeffrey Cavins, Northrop Grumman |
Lockheed Martin Coherent Airborne LIDAR (Abstract only)
Dr. Iain McKinnie, Lockheed Martin |
Diode Pumped Solid State Laser Integration for Raytheon’s Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared Pod (Abstract only)
Mr. Dan Nieuwsma, Raytheon |
NASA Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) (Abstract only)
Dr. Rob Afzal, Aculight |
Qualification and Integration of the Laser Transmitter for the CALIPSO Aerosol Lidar Mission (Abstract only)
Dr. Floyd Hovis, Fibertek |
NASA Initiative Toward Reliable Long-Duration Operation of Diode Laser Arrays in Space (Abstract only)
Dr. David Tratt, NASA |
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The Destiny of Multi-kW High-Brightness Yb:YAG Single-Rod Lasers
Mr. Hans Bruesselbach, HRL Laboratories, LLC |
Pump Donuts Simplify Side Pumping of Solid State Lasers
Dr. Alan Karpinski, Laser Diode Array, Inc. |
Stress Relief of Adhesive-Free-Bond (AFB®) Laser Crystal Composites at Elevated and Cryogenic Temperatures
Dr. Huai-Chuan Lee, Onyx Optics, Inc. |
High Laser Damage Coatings on YAG Using Ion Beam Sputtering Deposition
Dr. Ove Lyngnes, Precision Photonics |
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Alternate Wavelength Sources | |
Tunable External Cavity Quantum Cascade Lasers for Molecular Detection and Imaging in the Mid Infrared
Dr. Timothy Day, Daylight Solutions, Inc. |
Tunable High-Power High-Brightness Diode-Pumped VECSELs and Their Applications
Dr. Mahmoud Fallahi, University of Arizona |
Power Scalable, Kilowatt-Class, Wavelength Agile OPSLs
Dr. Jerome Moloney, University of Arizona |
High-Brightness from an Unstable Resonator Mid-IR Semiconductor Laser
Dr. Andrew Ongstad, AFRL/DELS |
Advances in High Brightness Semiconductor Lasers in the 1400 -1600 nm Regime
Dr. M Osowski, Quintessence Photonics Corporation |
Record High-Power and High-Efficiency InP-based Diode Lasers
Dr. Steve Patterson, nLight |
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In-Situ Spatially and Temporally Resolved Temperature Measurement of Laser Diode Arrays as a Predictive Failure Analysis Tool
Mr. Jason Carter, Pennsylvania State University |
High-Brightness Laser Diode Arrays for Eye-Safe Lasers Enabled by Volume Bragg Gratings
Dr. Boris Volodin, PD-LD Inc. |
Multi-Kilowatt High-Brightness Fiber Coupled Diode Laser Systems
Dr. Nels Ostrom, Nuvonyx, Inc. |
High-Power Conversion Efficiency and Wavelength Stabilized 970 nm Diode Laser Bars and Stacks
Dr. Manoj Kanskar, Alfalight Inc. |
400-W Peak CW Power per Bar from 1-cm GaAs Bars For Emission Wavelengths From 800-nm to 980-nm, 90-W per bar at 660-nm
Dr. Paul Crump, nLight |
High Vacuum Testing of High-Power Laser Diode Arrays
Dr. Eliot Geathers, Pennsylvania State University |
Advances in High Brightness Semiconductor Lasers
Dr. R Lammert, Quintessence Photonics Corporation |
Minimization of Diode Array Degradation via Emitter-Level Screening of Laser Diode Subassemblies
Mr. Ryan Feeler, Northrop Grumman Cutting Edge Optronics |
Qualification of High-Power Laser Bars for Space Applications
Dr. Rajiv Pathak, Lasertel Inc. |
Compact High Power, High Brightness Diode Laser for Pumping of Solid State Lasers
Dr. Andreas Brandt, Visotek, Inc. |
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System Integration Aspects of Pulsed Fiber Lasers in MOPA Configuration
Mr. Tim Lauterborn, Fraunhofer USA |
Multi-MW Peak Power Scaling of Single-Transverse Mode Pulses Using 80-µm core Yb-doped LMA Fibers
Dr. Kai-Chung Hou, University of Michigan |
Very Large-Core, Yb-Doped Photonic-Crystal Rod for Multi-MW Peak Power Generation
Dr. Fabio Teodoro, Aculight Corporation |
Near Diffraction-Limited, 1064nm, All-Fiber Master Oscillator Fiber Amplifier (MOFA) with Enhanced SRS Suppression for Pulsed Nanosecond Applications
Dr. John McCarthy, BAE Systems |
Development of Watts-Level Sources of Ultra-Short Pulses at 1.5mm Using Heavily-Doped Phosphate Glass Fibers
Dr. Pavel Polynkin, University of Arizona |
High-Power Compact Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplif iers at 1558-nm using Er/Yb LMA Fibers and Chirped Volume Bragg Grating Compressors
Dr. Ming-Yuan Cheng, University of Michigan |
400W+ Yb and 100W+ Er CW Single-Frequency, Single-Mode, Linearly Polarized All-Fiber Format Amplifiers
Dr. O Shkurikhin, IPG Photonics |
Component Testing and Amplifier Design for 200W, Narrow Linewidth, Monolithic PM-LMA Fiber Amplifiers
Dr. David Machewirth, Nufern |
Ultra-Compact High-Power Fiber Lasers with Phosphate Microstructured Optical Fibers
Dr. N Peyghambarian, University of Arizona |
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Thermal and Power Management | |
Ultra Compact Heat Exchangers for Thermal Management of High Power Laser Systems
Dr. Kevin Kelly, International Mezzo Technologies |
High-Power Density Pulse Generator for Laser Diode Applications
Mr. Don Deaton, DRS TEM Inc. |
Lightweight Cooling System for a 100kW SSL
Dr. Dan Rini, Rini Technologies, Inc. |
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Wavelength Beam Combining of Three 30-watt Fiber Amplifiers
Dr. Steve Augst, MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
Dense Spectral Beam Combining With Volume Bragg Gratings in PTR Glass
Mr. Oleksiy Andrusyak, University of Central Florida |
Novel Coherent Beam Combiner
Dr. Scott Christensen, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies |
Passively Phasing High-Power Multi Core Fiber Laser: Experiment and Theory
Dr. Chi Liu, University of Michigan |
Spatial and Temporal Stability Analysis of Multicore Fiber Amplifier Array Ring
Dr. Eric Bochove, Air Force Research Laboratory/DELO |
Stable Operation of a Phase-Locked Laser Array in a Self-Fourier Cavity
Dr. Chris Corcoran, Corcoran Engineering, Inc. |
Novel Applications of a Self Fourier Cavity to High-Power Phased Laser Arrays
Dr. Eric Bochove, Air Force Research Laboratory/DELO |
Coherent Fiber Array for Active Satellite Imaging
Dr. Mark Culpepper, AFRL/DELO |
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400-W Cryo-Cooled Yb:YAG Laser with 56% Efficiency
Dr. Bhabana Pati, Q-Peak, Inc. |
Power-Scaling in a Re-Imaging Waveguide MOPA
Dr. Bert Callicoatt, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies |
Laser Potential of Diode Pumped Yb-Doped Y2O3 Ceramics
Dr. Mark Dubinskii, Army Research Laboratory |
Recent Advances in Rotary Disk Laser Technology
Dr. Santanu Basu, Sparkle Optics Corporation |
113-W, 115-mJ Ho:YLF MOPA System Pumped with Tm:Fiber Lasers-Pumped, Ho:YLF Laser
Dr. Alex Dergachev, Q-Peak, Inc |
High-Power Sodium Guidestars Laser Systems for Current and Future Adaptive Optic Telescopes
Dr. Allen Tracy, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies |
Stabilization, Spectral Narrowing and Optimization of Solid State Lasers Using Volumetric PTR Bragg Grating Cavity Mirrors
Dr. Te-yuan Chung, University of Central Florida |
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High Modal Selectivity in Periodic Gain Diode Laser Arrays with Lateral Margin Control
Dr. Iulian Petrescu-Prahova, High Power Devices |
Hybrid Master Oscillator Power Amplifier Assembly based on Grating Coupled Laser Diodes
Dr. Oleg Smolski, University of Central Florida |
A New Relation for Mode Losses of Dense Laser Arrays Coupled to an External Cavity (Abstract only)
Dr. Eric Bochove, Air Force Research Laboratory/DELO |
Tunable Narrow Band-Pass Filters for Laser Applications
Dr. Julien Lumeau, University of Central Florida |
Effect of Increased Quantum Well Strain on GaSb Based 2.3-2.4 um High Power Diode Lasers
Dr. David Westerfeld, Power Photonic Corp |
Silicon Carbide: A New Optical Heatspreader Material for Cooling of High Power Solid State Laser Gain Media
Dr. G. Alex Newburgh, Army Research Laboratory |
Multiple-Fiber Channels Beam Coupling Inside a Stable Configuration Laser Cavity
Dr. Anatoliy Khizhnyak, MetroLaser, Inc. |
Bend-Loss Filtered, Large-Mode-Area Fiber Amplifiers: Experiments and Modeling
Dr. Roger Farrow, Sandia National Laboratories |
Theoretical Model for Self-Synchronous Locking of Optical Coherence by Single-Detector Electronic-Frequency Tagging (Abstract only)
Dr. Thomas Shay, AFRL/DELO |
First Experimental Demonstration of Coherent Fiber Array Phase Locking without an External Reference Beam (Abstract only)
Dr. Thomas Shay, AFRL/DELO |
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Corporate Presenters |
| Alfalight, Inc. |
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| Crystal Fibre A/S |
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| EpiWorks |
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| Heracus Quartz America, LLC |
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| ITF Optical Technologies |
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| L-3 Brashear |
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| Newport/Spectra-Physics |
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| nLight Corporation |
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| Northrop Grumman Cutting Edge Optronics |
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| Nufern |
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| Ondax, Inc. |
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| OptiGrate |
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| Precision Photonics Corporation |
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| Quintessence Photonics |
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| Visotek, Inc. |
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| CorActive High-Tech, Inc. |
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| Dilas Diode Laser, Inc. |
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| Em4 |
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| Market Tech, Inc. |
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| Nuvonyx, Inc. |
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