Lasers and Optical Science and Technology

Project Highlights

 
FY2022

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Project Title Project Code Principal Investigator Project Type Project Status
Additively Manufactured Neodymium-Doped Strontium-Fluoride Ceramic Gain Medium 22-ERD-021 Thomas Rudzik Exploratory Research Continuing
Agile Mixing Platform Engineered for Transient Compositional Printing 22-ERD-012 Du Nguyen Exploratory Research Continuing
Arbitrary Space-Variant Polarization Control for Large Aperture, High-Energy Lasers 22-FS-017 Anthony Vella Feasibility Study Final
Beam-Combined Pulsed Fiber Lasers 21-ERD-004 Charles Yu Exploratory Research Continuing
Defects Suppression in Process-Optimized High Power and Energy Multilayer Dielectric Coated Optics 20-ERD-024 Siping Qiu Exploratory Research Final
Designing Damage-Resistant Multilayer Dielectric Gratings for Petawatt-Class Lasers 22-FS-035 Hoang Nguyen Feasibility Study Final
Exploring the Cosmos: Enabling One Thousand Times More Sensitive Spectrographs for Exoplanet Search 22-LW-020 David Erskine Lab-Wide Continuing
Freeform Optics 20-ERD-003 Tayyab Suratwala Exploratory Research Final
Glass Preforms for Next-Generation Fiber Lasers 20-ERD-012 Koroush Sasan Exploratory Research Final
Glass-Engraved Meta-Optics for High-Power Lasers 21-ERD-002 Eyal Feigenbaum Exploratory Research Continuing
Ionization-Based Optical Structures for the Control of Short-Pulse Lasers 21-LW-013 Pierre Michel Lab-Wide Final
Laser Amplification with Suppressed Amplified Spontaneous Emission 22-DR-004 Stephen Payne Disruptive Research Continuing
Long Pulse Laser-Driven Shock-Induced Damage in Metals 22-FS-003 Wesley Keller Feasibility Study Final
Modelocked Oscillator with Planar Gaussian Optics 21-LW-062 Thomas Galvin Lab-Wide Final
Next-Generation Beam Quality for Deployed Laser Systems 20-ERD-046 Stephen Ammons Exploratory Research Final
Post-Chirped-Pulse-Amplification Pulse Compression for High Energy Laser Systems 22-FS-007 Issa Tamer Feasibility Study Final
Predicting Damage Growth using Multimode Characterization and Machine Learning 22-ERD-003 Jae Hyuck Yoo Exploratory Research Continuing
Programmable Time-Varying Spectral Encoding for Advanced Control of High-Energy, High-Power Laser Systems 21-ERD-034 Daniel Mittelberger Exploratory Research Continuing
Revisiting the Critical Physics for Passing Energetic Laser Pulses through Air 21-ERD-052 Eyal Feigenbaum Exploratory Research Continuing
Robust High-Power Diodes for Next Generation Laser Systems 21-SI-002 Salmaan Baxamusa Strategic Initiative Continuing