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CONFERENCE 9466 · LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 342Tuesday–Wednesday 21–22 April 2015 • Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9466Laser Technology for Defense and Security XIConference Chairs: Mark Dubinskii, U.S. Army Research Lab. (USA); Stephen G. Post, Missile Defense Agency (USA)Program Committee: Steven R. Bowman, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (USA); Iyad Dajani, Air Force Research Lab. (USA); Anthony M. Johnson,Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County (USA); Steven G. Patterson, DILAS Diode Laser, Inc. (USA); Don D. Seeley, High Energy Laser JointTechnology Office (USA)TUESDAY 21 APRILSESSION 1LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 342 ..........TUE 8:40 AM TO 10:00 AMMid-IR and UV-Vis LasersSession Chair: Anthony M. Johnson,Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County (USA)8:40 am: Ring cavity surface emitting quantum cascade laser with a nearGaussian beam profile, Pedro N. Figueiredo, Robert E. Peale, Andrey V.Muraviev, Univ. of Central Florida (USA)..........................[9466-1]9:00 am: Continuous-wave deep ultraviolet sources for resonance Ramanexplosive sensing, Balakishore Yellampalle, Robert B. Martin, Mikhail Sluch,Robert V. Ice, William B. McCormick, Brian E. Lemoff, West Virginia HighTechnology Consortium Foundation (USA)........................[9466-2]9:20 am: AlGaInN laser diode technology and systems for defence andsecurity applications, Stephen P. Najda, Piotr Perlin, Tadek Suski, LucjaMarona, Mike Bockowski, Mike Leszczynski, Przemek Wisniewski, RobertCzernecki, TopGaN Ltd. (Poland); Robert Kucharski, Ammono S.A. (Poland);George Tagowski, TopGaN Ltd. (Poland); Scott Watson, Antony Kelly, Univ. ofGlasgow (United Kingdom) ....................................[9466-3]9:40 am: Recent progress in high-power ultrafast thulium-doped fiberlasers and mid-infrared supercontinuum sources, Jiang Liu, Hongxing Shi,Kun Liu, Fangzhou Tan, Pu Wang, Beijing Univ. of Technology (China). . [9466-4]Coffee Break ................................ Tue 10:00 am to 10:30 amSESSION 2LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 342 ..........TUE 10:30 AM TO 11:50 AMProgress in Diode Lasers/Novel BulkSolid-state LasersSession Chair: Mark Dubinskii, U.S. Army Research Lab. (USA)10:30 am: High temperature operating diode laser pumps for directedenergy fiber lasers, Manoj Kanskar, Ling Bao, Zhigang Chen, Mark DeVito,Weimin Dong, Xingguo Guan, David M. Hemenway, Walter Sanders, Jim Zhang,Shiguo Zhang, nLIGHT Corp. (USA) .............................[9466-5]10:50 am: Higher efficiency low weight, high-brightness fiber pumpmodules, David A. Irwin, DILAS Diode Laser, Inc. (USA); Andreas Bayer,Wilhelm Fassbender, Jens Biesenbach, DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH (Germany);Steven G. Patterson, DILAS Diode Laser, Inc. (USA) ................[9466-6]11:10 am: Resonantly pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Er:YVO 4 laser,Nikolay E. Ter-Gabrielyan, Viktor Fromzel, Mark Dubinskii, U.S. Army ResearchLab. (USA) .................................................[9466-7]11:30 am: DBR and DFB lasers in Nd and Yb doped photo-thermorefractiveglasses, Aleksandr I. Ryasnyanskiy, OptiGrate Corp. (USA); NikolaiVorobiev, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida(USA); Vadim Smirnov, OptiGrate Corp. (USA); Julien Lumeau, Larissa Glebova,CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida (USA);Oleksiy Mokhun, Christine Spiegelberg, OptiGrate Corp. (USA); Michael A.Krainak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (USA); Alexei L. Glebov, OptiGrateCorp. (USA); Leonid B. Glebov, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics,Univ. of Central Florida (USA) and OptiGrate Corp. (USA) ............[9466-8]Lunch/Exhibition Break ......................... Tue 11:50 am to 1:20 pmSESSION 3LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 342 ............TUE 1:20 PM TO 3:00 PMFiber Lasers: Power ScalingSession Chair: Stephen G. Post, Missile Defense Agency (USA)1:20 pm: High-power operation of Yb-doped fiber laser at 976 nm: presentstatus and applications (Invited Paper), Eric Cormier, Univ. Bordeaux 1(France) ...................................................[9466-9]2:00 pm: Advances in resonantly-pumped Tm-doped fiber amplifiers, DanielCreeden, Benjamin R. Johnson, Glen A. Rines, Scott D. Setzler, BAE Systems(USA) ....................................................[9466-10]2:20 pm: Higher order mode selection for power scaling in laser resonatorsusing transmitting Bragg gratings, Brian M. Anderson, George B. Venus,Daniel Ott, Ivan B. Divliansky, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics,Univ. of Central Florida (USA); Jay W. Dawson, Derrek R. Drachenberg, MichaelJ. Messerly, Paul H. Pax, John B. Tassano, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.(USA); Leonid B. Glebov, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. ofCentral Florida (USA)........................................[9466-11]2:40 pm: Laser beam characteristics of optical phased arrays, Yakov G.Soskind, DHPC Technologies (USA)............................[9466-12]Coffee Break ..................................Tue 3:00 pm to 3:30 pmSESSION 4LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 342 ............TUE 3:30 PM TO 5:10 PMNew Laser and Nonlinear Materials andTheir PropertiesSession Chair: George A. Newburgh, U.S. Army Research Lab. (USA)3:30 pm: Thermally and mechanically enhanced phosphate glassesfor eye-safe lasers, Paula Vullo, Simi A. George, SCHOTT North America, Inc.(USA) ....................................................[9466-13]3:50 pm: Magneto-optical properties of fluorinated silicate glasses dopedwith rare earth ions, Aleksandr I. Ryasnyanskiy, Vadim Smirnov, OptiGrateCorp. (USA); Helene Mingareev, Axel Schülzgen, CREOL, The College of Opticsand Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida (USA); Alexei L. Glebov, OptiGrate Corp.(USA); Larissa Glebova, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ.of Central Florida (USA); Leonid B. Glebov, CREOL, The College of Optics andPhotonics, Univ. of Central Florida (USA) and OptiGrate Corp. (USA) . . [9466-14]4:10 pm: Transition metal doped gallium nitride laser materials,Steven Bowman, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (USA); Christopher G. Brown,Univ. Research Foundation (USA); Jacob H. Leach, Kevin Udwary, KymaTechnologies, Inc. (USA) .....................................[9466-15]4:30 pm: Frequency conversion with quasi-phase matched gallium nitride,Steven Bowman, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (USA); Christopher G. Brown, Univ.Research Foundation (USA); Jennifer K. Hite, Jaime A. Freitas Jr., Francis J.Kub, Charles R. Eddy Jr., Jerry R. Meyer, Igor Vurgaftman, U.S. Naval ResearchLab. (USA); Jacob H. Leach, Kevin Udwary, Kyma Technologies, Inc.(USA) ....................................................[9466-16]4:50 pm: Spectroscopic properties of Er-doped Y 2O 3 ceramic related tomid-IR laser transition, Tigran Sanamyan, Zackery D. Fleischman, U.S. ArmyResearch Lab. (USA) ........................................[9466-17]DEFENSE + SECURITY+1 360 676 3290 · help@spie.org · (Twitter) #DSS 77