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
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
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
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
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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