Beam Control- Automated, Beam Pointing & Target Tracking

 

High-Power Photonic Lantern for Beam Combining and Fine Tracking

Juan Carlos Zacarias, UCF/CREOL

 

 

Beam Control - Wavefront Compensation

 

Deep Learning Wavefront Sensing using Beacon-Based and Scene-Based Imagery Data

Jae Jun Kim, Naval Postgraduate School MAE Department

 

Laser Annealing of Optical Coatings for Post-Assembly Deformable Mirror Processing

John Hunt, University of Minnesota

 

Photonic Lantern Wavefront Sensor for Adaptive Optics

Daniel Delgado, UCF/CREOL

 

Pyramid Wavefront Sensor Performance with the Low Latency Adaptive Mirror System

Stephen Ammons, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 

Effects of Kolmogorov Turbulence on Optical Cavity-Based Measurement

Merlin Mah, University of Minnesota

 

 

Diode Pump Lasers

 

New FACTOR Diodes for Defense Applications

Keeley Hurley, Coherent, Inc.

 

 

Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers

 

Anti-Resonant Hollow Core Fiber for High-Power Beam Delivery

Matthew Cooper, UCF/CREOL

 

 

Ultra-Short Pulsed Lasers: Sources

 

High-Power USP CO2 Lasers: Status and Applications

Sergei Tochitsky, Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA

 

Carrier-Envelope Phase of High-Power Few-Cycle Laser Pulses: Measurement, Control, and Influence on System Design

Vitaly Gruzdev, University of New Mexico

 

Potential Impact of High-Power Blue Diode Laser Technology for Underwater Communications

Yehuda Braiman, CREOL, University of Central Florida

 

 

Ultra-Short Pulsed Lasers: Propagation

 

Initial Results from Outdoor Laser-Range Tests of Space-Time Wave Packets

Layton Hall, University of Central Florida

 

Generation and Air Propagation of High Energy Ultrafast Laser Pulses at 1 kHz

Jorge Rocca, Colorado State University Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Physics

 

 

Ultra-Short Pulsed Lasers: Propagation

 

Nonlinear Propagation of Orbital Angular Momentum Beams in Turbulence

Henry Elder, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division; University of Maryland, College Park

 

Demonstration o Air Waveguides Over Tens of Meters Using Filamenting LG Beams

Ilia Larkin, Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park

 

Measurement of Water Droplet Dynamics Near A Femtosecond Filament

Andrew Goffin, Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park

 

 

Ultra-Short Pulsed Lasers: Effects

 

Ultrafast Marcuse Effect In Semiconductors As A Novel Principle Of Parametric Amplification Of Ultrashort Mid-Infrared Laser Pulses

Vitaly Gruzdev, University of New Mexico

 

Numerical Modeling Of Target Heating And Ablation From Ultrashort Pulse Lasers In The Warm-Dense-Matter Regime

George Petrov, Naval Research Laboratory