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CONFERENCE 9466LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 342INTERACTIVE POSTER SESSION: TUESDAY EVENINGLOCATION: CONV. CTR. LEVEL 200 MEZZANINE ...TUE 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posters.Posters that are not set up by the 5:00 pm cut-off time will be considered noshows,and their manuscripts may not be published.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.Yb-fiber-MOPA based high energy and average power uplink laser beaconfor deep space communication operating under Nested PPM format,Doruk Engin, Ibraheem Darab, John Burton, Frank Kimpel, Shantanu Gupta,Fibertek, Inc. (USA) .........................................[9466-30]Proposal of a defense application for a chemical oxygen laser, KiwamuTakehisa, O2 Laser Lab. (Japan)...............................[9466-31]Analysis and modeling of a high-power side diode pumped solid statelaser system, Tamer Kashef, Ayman Mokhtar, Samy S. A. Ghoniemy, MilitaryTechnical College (Egypt); Lawrence Shah, Martin C. Richardson, CREOL, TheCollege of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida (USA) ......[9466-32]WEDNESDAY 22 APRILSESSION 5LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 342 .........WED 8:20 AM TO 10:00 AMPulsed Fiber Lasers and SBS MitigationSession Chair: Steven Bowman, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (USA)8:20 am: Stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers with endreflections excited by broad-band pump waves with different spectralshapes, Mark S. Bowers, Robert S. Afzal, Lockheed Martin Aculight(USA) ....................................................[9466-18]8:40 am: Mode-locked and Q-switched fiber lasers with graphene oxidebased saturable absorber (Invited Paper), Pu Wang, Jiang Liu, Beijing Univ. ofTechnology (China) .........................................[9466-19]9:20 am: Narrow-band, all-fiber 100W 20-ps Yb-doped fiber laser source,Robert A. Stegeman, Ye Huang, Eric D. Park, Peter F. Moulton, Q-Peak, Inc.(USA) ....................................................[9466-20]9:40 am: Arbitrary phase modulation for optical spectral control andsuppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering, Johan Nilsson, Achar V.Harish, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom) ..................[9466-21]SESSION 6LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 342 ...........WED 1:20 PM TO 3:00 PMNovel Fiber LasersSession Chair: Don D. Seeley,High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office (USA)1:20 pm: Continuous-wave fiber Raman lasers cladding-pumped directly bydiodes (Invited Paper), Johan Nilsson, Tianfu Yao, Achar V. Harish, Jayanta K.Sahu, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom) ...................[9466-22]2:00 pm: Diode pumped Tm/Ho composite fiber 2.1 μm laser, George A.Newburgh, U.S. Army Research Lab. (USA) ......................[9466-23]2:20 pm: Extra-low Brillouin gain optical fiber derived from Er-dopedsapphire ceramic, Mark Dubinskii, Tigran Sanamyan, Robert Pavlacka, U.S.Army Research Lab. (USA); Thomas W. Hawkins, Clemson Univ. (USA); PeterD. Dragic, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA); John Ballato, ClemsonUniv. (USA) ...............................................[9466-24]2:40 pm: Power scaling of resonantly-pumped double-clad fiber laserbased on Yb-free Er-doped silicate glass, Jun Zhang, Radha Pattnaik, U.S.Army Research Lab. (USA); Shibin Jiang, AdValue Photonics, Inc. (USA);Mark Dubinskii, U.S. Army Research Lab. (USA) ..................[9466-25]Coffee Break ..................................Wed 3:00 pm to 3:30 pmSESSION 7LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 342 ...........WED 3:30 PM TO 4:50 PMNovel Laser-based PracticalDevices and SystemsSession Chair: Nikolay E. Ter-Gabrielyan,U.S. Army Research Lab. (USA)3:30 pm: Novel broadly tunable fiber laser system, Steven Bowman, U.S.Naval Research Lab. (USA); Christopher G. Brown, Univ. Research Foundation(USA) ....................................................[9466-26]3:50 pm: A passively q-switched compact solid state laser, Bhabana Pati,Eric D. Park, Q-Peak, Inc. (USA) ...............................[9466-27]4:10 pm: Development of a compact laser target designator, Stephen T. Lee,Andrew G. Borthwick, Graham Morton, Ian McRae, Norman Imlach, GeorgeGardiner, Gordon McKinlay, William Alexander, Mark Silver, Thales UK Ltd.(United Kingdom) ...........................................[9466-28]4:30 pm: 20.2W CW 2.118μm Ho:YAlO 3 laser pumped by 1.915μm Tm-dopedfiber laser, Ting Yu, Gang Bai, Zhongguo Yang, Weibiao Chen, ShanghaiInstitute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (China). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [9466-29]DEDICATED EXHIBITION TIME AND LUNCH BREAKLOCATION: CONV. CTR. EXHIBITION HALL ..... 10:00 AM TO 1:20 PMEnjoy Wednesday morning coffee break with a complimentary continentalbreakfast while walking the exhibition floor and connecting with reps fromthe largest prime contractors, key suppliers, and dynamic startups. Meet withvendors showcasing their newest products and cutting-edge technologies inoptics, photonics, sensing, and imaging. Various food outlets are also locatedin the DSS Expo Hall and will be open for lunch during Exhibition Hours.78 SPIE DSS 2015 · www.spie.org/dss