DIRECTED ENERGY PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY Event Proceedings 2017 Annual Directed Energy Symposium   The items listed below constitute the proceedings from the 2017 Annual Directed Energy Symposium. These, and other DEPS event proceedings, are available through the DEPS online store. Unless otherwise noted, presentations only are included for each entry. 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 DEPS Annual Report and Recognitions Mr. Mark Neice and Dr. Sean Ross, Directed Energy Professional Society AFGSC Directed Energy Applications Lt. Col Jason "Grinder" Paul, PhD Chief, Integration and Technology Assessments Branch AFGSC/A5ZI COMM USASMDC/ARSTRAT High Energy Laser Overview Mr. Thomas E. Webber, Director, Space and Missile Defense Technical Center Marshall Space Flight Center Overview Dr. David Burns, Director of Science & Technology, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center DE Systems and Programs Safety Considerations for Laser Power Beaming Tom Nugent, LaserMotive Fielding Operationally Viable Directed Energy Weapons David Stoudt, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. Student Session Novel Concepts for Slow Wave Structures used in High Power Backward Wave Oscillators Ushemadzoro Chipengo, Electroscience Lab- Ohio State University Electrical Characterization of Lightweight Nanocarbon Materials for High Energy Laser Positional Sensor (HELPS) Applications (Paper Also Included) Andrew Jevitt, United States Naval Academy Atmospheric Optical Turbulence: Model Comparison and Relative Terrestrial Influence on Diurnal Trends in a Range of Maritime Environments (Paper Only) William Bourque, United States Naval Academy Open Poster Session Metrology and Calibration (METCAL) for Navy Laser Weapons: The Need and Importance Subrata Sanyal, Naval Surface Warfare Center Metrology and Calibration (METCAL) for Navy Laser Weapons: NSWC Corona Efforts Subrata Sanyal, Naval Surface Warfare Center Overview of SiC High-Voltage Switch Development and Evaluation at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Paper Only) Heather O'Brien, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Development of an Automated Electromagnetic Effects Laboratory Tool Justin K. Smith, University of New Mexico Temperature Dependent Emissivity for Carbon-Epoxy Composite Materials Corey Combs, Air Force Institute of Technology Anisotropy Safari Using a Hartmann Turbulence Sensor Matthew Current, Air Force Institute of Technology Verification of BRDF Improvements by Comparisons to Modified Beckmann-Kirchhoff Scatter Theory James Ethridge, Air Force Institute of Technology Updating the LEEDR Model in PITBUL to Include Multiple Scattering Capabilities Dylan Kunkle, Air Force Institute of Technology 4D Weather Effects Visualization for Speed of Light Combat Matthew Paulding, Air Force Institute of Technology 4D Laser Performance Visualization for Speed of Light Effects Eric Tsai, Air Force Institute of Technology HEL Technology 1 Evolution of Super-High Efficiency Fiber-Coupled Sources (SHEFS) for All-Fiber MOPAs Aland Chin, Somerville Laser Technology, LLC Measurement of Critical for Damage Temperatures in Gain Medium of Operating DPAL Boris Zhdanov, Air Force Academy Unstable Resonator Design for Diode Pumped Alkali Lasers Glen Perram, Air Force Institute of Technology Saturation Spectroscopy of Optically Thick Media Ben Eshel, Air Force Institute of Technology Department of Engineering Physics Thermal Analysis of 6" Liquid Beam Dump Andrew Hall, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions Beam Control Systems and Technology Modelling Waveguide Generated Mitigation of Speckle on an Actively Illuminated Target Trevor Moore, Air Force Research Laboratory Beam Propagation 1 Visualization of Branch Point Phenomena Robert Praus, MZA HEL Technology 2 Wavelength Agility of a Two-Photon Pumped Alkali Laser Nathan Haluska, Air Force Institute of Technology Spectroscopy of Metastable Xenon in High Pressure Plasma Discharges Amanda Black, SMDC Pulsed Discharge - Diode Pumped Ar Laser (Paper Also Included) Michael Heaven, Emory University The Self Q-Switched Tm/Ho Doped Co-Axial Fiber Laser George Newburgh, Army Research Laboratory Beam Propagation 2 Characterization of Atmospheric Properties with Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) Alex Clark, Kratos Defense Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy for DPAL, COIL and SSL Systems in Open Paths Christopher Rice, Air Force Institute of Technology Dual-Beacon Differential Image Motion Monitor for Measuring Atmospheric Turbulence at Horizontal Paths Daniel Whitley, Kratos Weapons and Defense Solutions Power and Thermal for DE 2 Minimizing Thermal Management System Impact on High Energy Laser SWaP Geoff Campbell, Science Research Laboratory, Inc. Fast Charge Algorithm for Large Lithium Ion Battery Packs Gary Grider, DRS Technologies Thermal Mitigation of Transient Pulses Lauren Boteler, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Education Workshop JTO/DEPS Educational Initiative Mark Neice, DEPS Invited Talk: How the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) Trains the Technical Workforce for the Future Bill Decker, DAU The Rare Gas Laser: A Potential HEL System Ben Eshel, Air Force Institute of Technology My Path to a Career in Directed Energy Noah Van Zandt, AF Institute of Technology Surface Temperature Measurements of a Water Drop during Laser Strike Nicholas Payne, USNA Laser Propagation in An Underwater Environment Charles Stabler, US Naval Academy Characterizing the Temporal Response of Fiber Bragg Grating Temperature Sensors to Directed Energy Attacks Michael Ross, US Naval Academy Planned Atmospheric Visibility Measurements in a Turbulent Wind Tunnel Tyler Galpin, University of New Hampshire Non-DE Applications: Propulsion A Concept for Producing Very Large Propulsive Forces using High-Q Asymmetric High Energy Laser Resonators (Paper Also Included) Travis Taylor, U.S. Army SMDC Solar Sails and Directed Energy: Next Steps toward a Space Propulsion Infrastructure Les Johnson, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Directed Energy Application to Orbital Debris Mitigation Edward Montgomery, MontTech, LLC A Strategic Roadmap for Commercializing Low-Cost Beamed Energy Propulsion Launch Systems Eric Davis, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin Hybrid Laser-Chemical Rocket Engine and Launch System Thomas Nugent, LaserMotive A Means to Assess and Validate the Effects of Ground Based High Energy Lasers on Small Satellites for Proving Propulsion and Increasing Power Available Peter Weiland, Radiance Technology HPM and CDEW The Directed Energy Test Science and Technology Non-Intrusive HPM Sensor Program Jeffrey Schleher, American Systems Non-DoD Applications: Power Beaming Directed Energy Commercialization: The International Beams-2-Biotech Private- Public Partnership Paul Shirley, WAVE Directed Energy for Planetary Defense and Asteroid Manipulation Travis Brashears, UCSB Physics Dept. Directed Energy: Enabler of Human Expansion into the Solar System Edward (Sandy) Montgomery, MontTech, LLC Modeling and Simulation 2 Jittered Uniform Circular Annular Beams (Paper Also Included) Charles Albers, Radiance Technologies Predictive Thermal Model for Phase Change within Steel Heated by Laser Energy (Paper Also Included) Noah Siegel, United States Military Academy Ultra Short Pulse Laser 2 The Science of Extreme Light Interactions with Liquid Targets at Relativistic Conditions William Roquemore, Aerospace Systems Directorate AFRL Education Workshop 2 Modified Wafer-Level Segmented Contact Method Daniel Lauriola, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Illumination Module for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) Serang Park, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology   Copyright 2018 Directed Energy Professional Society   DHTML/JavaScript Menus by OpenCube

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