Welcome to LONG-WIRE MURI Review at the University of Michigan. The meeting will take place on the University of Michigan’s North Campus in Ann Arbor, October 16-17, 2019.
Please register here by September 15 to allow us to plan the event. A registration fee of $80 will be collected in cash or check (no credit cards) on arrival to cover the cost of meals and meeting space.
Agenda
DAY 1, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16, 2019
Pierpont Commons, East Room (2nd floor)
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration and Breakfast (catered) | |
| 9:00-9:05 | Welcome Remarks | Quentin Saulter, PM ONR |
| 9:05-9:15 | Welcome Remarks of Host | Igor Jovanovic & Almantas Galvanauskas, UMichigan |
| 9:15-9:45 | Status of LWIR ONR MURI program | Chan Joshi/ Sergei Tochitsky, UCLA |
| 9:45-10:15 | BREAK | |
| LWIR Source Development | ||
| 10:15-10:35 | Progress on Solid-state Parametric Sources | Igor Jovanovic, UMichigan |
| 10:35-10:55 | 2.8 mm Er:ZBLAN Fiber Array Technology | Almantas Galvanauskas, UMichigan |
| 10:55-11:25 | Efficient Nonlinear Frequency Division and Optical Rectification at LWIR | Konstantin Vodopyanov, CREOL |
| 11:25-11:55 | The latest on Development of Picosecond CO2 Lasers | Sergei Tochitsky, UCLA |
| 12:00-13:00 | LUNCH (catered) | |
| Laser-matter and laser-plasma interactions in the LWIR window | ||
| 13:00-13:30 | Time resolved measurements of nonlinearity and ionization processes in gases through the LWIR | Howard Milchberg, UM |
| 13:30-14:00 | LWIR Nonlinear Optics in gases: Theory and Simulations | Jerry Moloney, UA |
| 14:00-14:20 | SUNY program on LWIR nonlinear optics | Jeremy Pigeon/ Ilan Ben-Zvi, SUNY |
| 14:20-14:40 | MESA modeling of nonlinear optical response of N2/O2 | Miroslav Kolesik, UA |
| 14:40-15:00 | Ultrafast collisionless isotropization of plasma produced by IR pulse | Chan Joshi, UCLA |
| 15:00-15:20 | BREAK | |
| 15:20-15:40 | Latest results on mid-IR nonlinear optics at ARL | Antonio Valenzuela, ARL (Maryland) |
| 15:40-16:00 | Strong THz generation from long wavelength laser drivers | Ki-Yong Kim, UM |
| 16:00-16:20 | Filamentation of terawatt CO2 laser pulses in air | Sergei Tochitsky, UCLA |
| 16:20-16:40 | Broadband RF from air plasma using a LWIR source | Alexander Englesbe, AFRL |
| 16:40-17:00 | Laser propagation in a strongly turbulent atmosphere | |
| 19:00 | Dinner at Cafe Zola (112 W Washington St, Ann Arbor) |
DAY 2, THURSDAY OCTOBER 17, 2019
Pierpont Commons, East Room (2nd floor)
| 8:00-9:00 | Breakfast (catered) | |
| Training aspect in our ONR MURI program: Students and postdocs | ||
| 9:00-9:15 | Progress on atmospheric laser-plasma studies at LWIR | Eric Welch, UCLA |
| 9:15-9:30 | High-field mid-IR experiments in air | Robert Schwartz, UM |
| 9:30-9:45 | Two-stage filamentation of 10 µm pulses in air | Paris Panagiotopoulos, UA |
| 9:45 -10:00 | Anomalous nonlinearity in GaAs driven by a CO2 laser beatwave | Dan Matteo, UCLA |
| 10:00-10:15 | Surrogate 2.75 µm pump source for Er:ZBLAN and LWIR OPCPA development | Xuan Xiao, UMichigan |
| 10:15-10:30 | Generation of seed ultrashort pulses for LWIR OPCPA | Hao Huang, UMichigan |
| 10:30 –10:45 | High energy pulse amplification at 2.75 µm in large core Er:ZBLAN fiber amplifiers | Weizhi Du, UMichigan |
| 10:45 -11:00 | Er:ZBLAN fiber mode-locked oscillators at 2.75µm and 3.5µm | Yifan Cui, UMichigan |
| 11:00-11:15 | High-pressure CO2 Laser Optically Pumped at 4.3 µm | Dana Tovey, UCLA |
| 11:15-11:30 | Generation of RF and THz radiation from a single USPL in air | Paul Gradney. UM |
| 11:30-12:00 | Discussions | |
| 12:00:13:00 | LUNCH (catered) | |
| 13:00-15:00 | Tour of CUOS labs: Ultrafast Fiber Lab (Prof. Galvanauskas’), Lambda Cubed (Prof. Jovanovic) and HERCULES (Prof. Krushelnick) | |
| 15:00-15:15 | Conclusion remarks | Quentin Saulter (ONR)/ Chan Joshi (UCLA) |
| 15:15 | Meeting Adjourn |