DIRECTED ENERGY PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY Event Proceedings 2018 Annual Directed Energy Symposium   The items listed below constitute the proceedings from the 2018 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   Plenary Sessions Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division Mr. Paul Mann, Technical Director, NSWC PHD AFRL DE S&T and the DEW Flight Plan Dr. Diana Loree, Acting Chief Scientist, AFRL Non-Lethal Directed Energy Weapons and the National Defense Strategy Ms. Susan Levine, Principal Deputy for Policy and Strategy, JNLWD Department of Defense Non-Lethal Weapons Program Mr. David Law, Chief Scientist, JNLWD Joint Directed Energy Transition Office: Past, Present and Future Dr. Larry Grimes, Director, DE JTO Next-Generation Non-Lethal Directed Energy Weapons Next-Generation Active Denial Technology Portfolio Update Randy Woods, JNLWD Key Transforming Non-Lethal Directed Energy Weapon Subsystems and Components Update: "High Power Density Solutions for Directed Energy Weapon Systems" Hernando Munevar, Candent Technologies Inc. Active Denial Joint Safety Review Board Considerations (includes HERO and Battery Safety Issues) Randy Woods, JNLWD Next Generation DEW Thermal Management Technologies John Durbin, Durbin Group AHPL- High Power Gas & Hybrid Lasers Characterization of Performance of a Conventional Cs DPAL: Beam Quality, Efficiency, Gain Medium Lifetime Boris Zhdanov, USAFA External Cavity Pump Laser for a DPAL Using an Atomic Line Filter Bill Hersman, UNH and Xemed A Path Towards 1MW Laser Pump Diodes John Goings, Lasertel Power Beaming Metrology, Safety, and Applications Directed Energy for Relativistic Propulsion Philip Lubin, University of California Operational Safety Analysis of Laser Power Beaming (Paper Also Included) Eric Conrad, US ARMY CERDEC CP&ID Safe Operation of Laser Power Beaming Systems Tom Nugent, PowerLight Technologies Criteria for Comparison of Power Beaming Demonstrations Paul Jaffe, US NRL Uniform Comparisons of Power Beaming Efficiency Tom Nugent, PowerLight Technologies Panel 1- XISP-Inc Commercial ISSSpace-to-Space Power Beaming Technology Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (TD3) Mission Panelists: Gary Barnhard, Seth Potter, James McSpadden Education Workshop I Directed Energy Professional Society Education Workshop Mark Neice, DEPS Gas Breakdown Dynamics: From Microscale to Nanoscale Amanda Loveless, Purdue University Test, Evaluation, and Scaling of Advanced Nanodielectric Materials for High Voltage Capacitors Samuel Dickerson, University of Missouri Center for Physical and Power Electronics Characterizing Effective Complex Permittivity of Anisotropic Epsilon Negative Metamaterial Liner in a Rectangular Waveguide for Metamaterial Enhanced Resistive Wall Amplifiers Patrick Forbes, University of Wisconsin-Madison High Power Fiber Laser Development at UCF Justin Cook, Laser Plasma Laboratory, University of Central Florida BC- Turbulence Measurements Using Differential Temperature Sensors to Calculate Cn2 - Experimental Campaign at West Point Jacob O'Neill, USMA Material Interaction/ High Fidelity Experimental Measurement of Hole Formation in Metal as a Function of Angle of Incidence from a HEL Nolan Hedglin, USMA Prediction of Thermal Decomposition Behaviors of Polymer Matrix Composites using Unified Kinetic Model Parameters Sangwook Sihn, University of Dayton Research Institute USPL I Experiment-Theory Comparison of Metastable Electronic State Approach Light-Matter Interaction in Laser Filamentation Anand Bahl, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona Designing an Amplifier for a Fully Characterized Yb:KGW Ultra Short Pulsed Laser System Ian Greer, Photonics Research Center USMA Power Beaming Technology & Demonstrations 1 Theoretical Energy-conversion Efficiency for RF Energy Harvesters Christopher Valenta, Georgia Tech Research Institute Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory Component Response The Effects of Rotation Speed, Engagement Power, and Inert Thermal Sinks on the Laser Heating of Cold Rolled Steel John Roll, USMA Power Beaming Technology & Demonstrations 2 Review of Laser Power Beaming Demonstrations by PowerLight Technologies Tom Nugent, PowerLight Technologies Concepts for Power Beaming with Directed Energy Systems and Thermal Receivers Bert Murray, Lighthouse DEV LLC Laser Wireless Power Transmission Christopher Giranda, DHPC Technologies Education Workshop II Solid State Lasers Controlled by Volume Holographic Elements Evan Hale, University of Central Florida, CREOL, PPL Thermal Effects of Environmental Degradation at Optical Surfaces for Directed Energy Applications Joshua LaFlam, US Naval Academy Measuring Semiconductor Deterioration and Charactering Laser Radiation Damage (Paper Also Included) Maeve Broeg, US Naval Academy Optical Investigation of a Regularized Shear Layer for Wavefront Prediction Matthew Kemnetz, University of Notre Dame Rapid Detection and Localization of High Energy Laser Strike using the Electrical Response of Carbon-Nanotube Sheet as a Sensor Andrew Sumida, US Naval Academy AHPL-Solid State Lasers 1 Incoherent Laser Beam Combining by Coaxially Overlapping Technique for High Energy Laser Weapon Ryuji Nagaoka, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. HPM Technologies A New TM01c-fed Low Profile, High Gain, Leaky Wave HPM Antenna Robert Koslover, Scientific Applications and Research Associates (SARA) Connecting the Dots Between Component Level and Equipment Level Electromagnetic Effects Testing (Paper Also Included) Michael Hatfield, Booz Allen Hamilton Education Workshop III Updates to the Development of Low-Pressure High-Density Plasmas on the Helicon Plasma Experiment (HPX) CDR Royce W. James, Ph.D., USCGA Thomson Scattering and Langmuir Probe Development on the Helicon Plasma Experiment (HPX) 2/c Anita Green, 4/c Maylis Yepez, and 4/c Trent Robledo-Thompson, USCGA Optical Turbulence: A Comparison of Existing and Theoretical Models at Low Altitude in a Near Maritime Environment (Paper Also Included) Richard Watson, US Naval Academy Calibration and Testing of Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors for Detection of High Energy Radiation (Paper Also Included) Mathew Kautzman, US Naval Academy Effects of Directed Near-Infrared Radiation on Saltwater Drops (Paper Also Included) Samuel Valley, US Naval Academy Heat Transfer Analysis of Thermal Damage Behind HEL Irradiated Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Skin Nicholas Stovall-Kurtz, US Naval Academy Poster Session Building and Testing a Thermal Conductivity Setup to Measure Laser Gain Materials Matthew Boyd, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Team Apollo: Fire Detection Cameron Hart, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Design, Optimization and Experimental Characterization of Frequency Selective Structures and Metamaterials Comprised of 3D Elements Danny Zhu, Pennsylvania State University Development of a Single Picosecond Pulse CO2 Laser System for Long-Wave Infrared Atmospheric Studies Eric Welch, University of California, Los Angeles Ultrashort Pulse Laser Interaction with Materials at Mid-IR Wavelength Robert Schwartz, University of Maryland Key Transforming Non-Lethal Directed Energy Weapon Subsystems and Components III Overview of SiC Research at TTU Stephen Bayne, Texas Tech University AHPL- Solid State Lasers 2 Enabling Mission Readiness & Conquering Frontiers in Contamination Control James Hamilton, Photonic Cleaning Technologies MILCON P777 Directed Energy Systems Integration Lab (DESIL) Terry Robinson, NSWC PHD   Copyright 2018 Directed Energy Professional Society   DHTML/JavaScript Menus by OpenCube

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