DSS2015-final-lr

CONFERENCE 9465B · LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 340Thursday 23 April 2015 • Part of Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9465Atmospheric Propagation XIIConference Chairs: Linda M. Wasiczko Thomas, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (USA); Earl J. Spillar, Air Force Research Lab. (USA)Program Committee: Ammar Al-Habash, Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems (USA); Gary Baker, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. (USA);Gary G. Gimmestad, Georgia Tech Research Institute (USA); Ken J. Grant, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia);Juan C. Juarez, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab. (USA); Christopher I. Moore, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (USA);William S. Rabinovich, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (USA); Jonathan M. Saint Clair, The Boeing Co. (USA); David H. Tofsted, U.S. ArmyResearch Lab. (USA); Morio Toyoshima, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan); Cynthia Y. Young,Univ. of Central Florida (USA)THURSDAY 23 APRILSESSION 6LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 340 ..........THU 9:00 AM TO 10:20 AMAtmospheric Turbulence ISession Chair: Juan C. Juarez, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied PhysicsLab., LLC (USA)9:00 am: An updated look at tilt-removed beam propagation in theatmosphere, Gary Baker, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. (USA).[9465-24]9:20 am: Wavefront sensing and phase reconstruction with multi-apertureZernike filter, Mikhail A. Vorontsov, Univ. of Dayton (USA) and Optonicus(USA); Svetlana L. Lachinova, Mathieu Aubailly, Optonicus (USA); BehzadBordbar, Univ. of Dayton (USA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [9465-25]9:40 am: Optical turbulence with anisotropy at different scales and itseffect on laser beam propagation along vertical paths, Italo Toselli,Olga Korotkova, Univ. of Miami (USA) ..........................[9465-26]10:00 am: Scientific data analysis of atmospheric turbulence throughdistributed computing, Sara B. Belichki, Christopher A. Smith, Joseph T.Coffaro, Michael G. Panich, Ronald L. Phillips, Larry C. Andrews, CREOL, TheCollege of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida (USA) ......[9465-27]Coffee Break ................................ Thu 10:20 am to 10:50 amSESSION 7LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 340 ..........THU 10:50 AM TO 12:30 PMAtmospheric Turbulence IISession Chair: Gary Baker, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. (USA)10:50 am: A low cost, low power, S-band radar for atmospheric turbulencestudies, Thomas C. Farrell, Air Force Research Lab. (USA)..........[9465-28]11:10 am: Evaluation of atmospheric refractive index gradient variabilityfrom time-lapse imaging, Jack E. McCrae, Santasri Basu, Air Force Instituteof Technology (USA) and Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education (USA);Zach B. Pollock, Miami Univ. (USA); Steven T. Fiorino, Air Force Institute ofTechnology (USA) ..........................................[9465-29]11:30 am: Increasing persistence through scattering environments byusing circularly polarized light, John D. van der Laan, College of OpticalSciences, The Univ. of Arizona (USA) and Sandia National Labs. (USA); DavidA. Scrymgeour, Jeremy B. Wright, Shanalyn A. Kemme, Sandia National Labs.(USA); Eustace L. Dereniak, College of Optical Sciences, The Univ. of Arizona(USA) ....................................................[9465-30]11:50 am: Scintillation effects of double-pass optical beams in atmosphericturbulence, Joseph T. Coffaro, Michael G. Panich, Univ. of Central Florida(USA); Sara B. Belichki, Christopher A. Smith, Ronald L. Phillips, CREOL,The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida (USA); Larry C.Andrews, Univ. of Central Florida (USA) .........................[9465-31]12:10 pm: The spectral transparency of the surface layer marine andcoastal atmosphere, Gennady A. Kaloshin, V.E. Zuev Institute of AtmosphericOptics (Russian Federation) ..................................[9465-32]Lunch/Exhibition Break .........................Thu 12:30 pm to 1:50 pmSESSION 8LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 340 ............THU 1:50 PM TO 3:50 PMFree Space Laser CommunicationSession Chair: Christopher I. Moore, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (USA)1:50 pm: Low-SWAP lasercomm terminal architecture for high-bandwidthcommunications under highly scintillated links, Juan C. Juarez, RadhaVenkat, Ryan P. DiNello-Fass, David M. Brown, Hala Tomey, Johns HopkinsUniv. Applied Physics Lab., LLC (USA)..........................[9465-33]2:10 pm: Lasercomm beacon architecture for link acquisition in highlyscintillated environments, Radha Venkat, Juan C. Juarez, Johns Hopkins Univ.Applied Physics Lab., LLC (USA) ..............................[9465-34]2:30 pm: Demonstrating capacity-approaching FSO communications,Thomas R. Halford, Michael P. Fitz, Cenk Kose, Jonathan Cromwell,Steven Gordon, TrellisWare Technologies, Inc. (USA) ..............[9465-35]2:50 pm: The ONR high-bandwith Lasercom project update, Linda M.Thomas, Christopher I. Moore, William S. Rabinovich, U.S. Naval Research Lab.(USA) ....................................................[9465-36]3:10 pm: The ONR high-bandwidth Lasercom project: analysis ofpropagation data, William S. Rabinovich, Christopher I. Moore, Linda M.Thomas, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (USA) .......................[9465-37]3:30 pm: Mid-IR free-space optical communication with quantum cascadelasers, Edward Luzhansky, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA) and Univ. ofMaryland Baltimore County (USA); Fow-Sen Choa, Univ. of Maryland, BaltimoreCounty (USA); Scott Merritt, Anthony W. Yu, Michael A. Krainak, NASA GoddardSpace Flight Ctr. (USA) ......................................[9465-39]INTERACTIVE POSTER SESSION: THURSDAY EVENINGLOCATION: CONV. CTR. LEVEL 200 MEZZANINE . .THU 6:00 TO 7:30 PMAll symposium attendees – You are invited to attend the evening Interactive PosterSession to view the high-quality posters and engage the authors in discussion.Enjoy light refreshments while networking with colleagues in your field. Authorsmay set up their posters between 7:30 am and 12:00 noon the day of their postersession. Special daytime previewing prior to the session from 12:00 noon to4:30 pm. Attendees are required to wear their conference registration badges toaccess Level 200, Mezzanine to view the posters.Posters that are not set up by the 5:00 pm cut-off time will be considered noshows,and their manuscripts may not be published. Poster authors shouldaccompany their posters from 6:00 to 7:30 pm to answer questions fromattendees. All posters and other materials must be removed no later than 8:00pm. Any posters or materials left behind at the close of the poster session will beconsidered unwanted and will be discarded. SPIE assumes no responsibility forposters left up after the end of each poster session.The effect of the aero-optic’s additional focal length on the airborneplatform laser communication optical system, Yuan Hu, Changchun Univ.of Science and Technology (China) and Beijing Institute of Technology (China);Tianyuan Gao, Changchun Univ. of Science and Technology (China); DewenCheng, Beijing Institute of Technology (China); Shoufeng Tong, Huilin Jiang,Changchun Univ. of Science and Technology (China) ..............[9465-38]76 SPIE DSS 2015 · www.spie.org/dss