HEC-DPSSL 2012 Workshop, Agenda: National Ignition Facility & Photon Science

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Time	Session Title	First Name	Last Name	Talk Title
	9/12/2012
8:00	Registration / Breakfast
9:00	Welcome	Andy	Bayramian
9:15	Introduction	Mike	Dunne
9:30	Overview session	Paul	Mason	DiPOLE - An Efficient and Scalable HEC-DPSSL System
10:00		Marco	Hornung	Status of the POLARIS laser system
10:30		Mathias	Siebold	Current status of the Penelope project
11:00		Junji	Kawanaka	Conceptual design of Sub-Exa-Watts OPCPA System -Gekko-EXA
11:30		Sandro	Klingebiel	The Petawatt Field Synthesizer-towards high energy few-cycle pulses
12:00		Lunch
13:30		Jean Christope	Chanteloup	Lucia Laser chain updated status
14:00		Antonio	Lucianetti	HiLASE cryogenically cooled multi-slab amplifier prototype operating at 100J/10 Hz
14:30		Mike	Dunne	Status of the NIC on NIF and the path to inertial fusion energy
15:00		Andy	Bayramian	Progress towards a Compact Laser Driver for Laser Inertial Fusion Energy
15:30	Break
16:00	High power Diode Arrays	Paul	Crump	Cryolaser: Innovative cryogenic diode laser bars optimized for emerging ultra-high power laser applications
16:30		Ryan	Feeler	Laser Diode Arrays for High-Energy Laser Systems
17:00		Andreas	Kohl	Ultra High Brightness Laser Diode Arrays for Pumping of Solid State Lasers
17:30		Manoj	Kanskar	High Efficiency kW-class QCW 88x nm Diode Laser Bars
18:00	Dinner
19:30	Reception

Time	Session Title	First Name	Last Name	Talk Title
	9/13/2012
7:30	Breakfast
8:30	Laser Gain media	Markus	Löeser	High–energy, Yb:LuAG and Yb:YAG active mirror amplifiers
9:00		Ivan	Mukhin	High efficient cryogenic disk laser with sub–joule energy level and kilohertz repetition rate
9:30		Viktor	Zelenogorskii	Investigation of spectroscopic properties and laser oscillation of oxides ceramics manufactured with SHS–MS method
10:00		Break
10:15		Al	Erlandson	Comparison of Nd:phosphate glass, Yb:YAG and Yb:S–FAP laser beamlines for laser inertial fusion energy
10:45		Mikayel	Arzakantsyan	Gradually Doped and Large Diameter Yb3+ Doped YAG Crystals for High Power Solid State Laser Applications
11:15		Daniel	Albach	Comparison of large size Yb3+:YAG ceramics and crystals
11:45	Lunch
13:00	OPA/CPA development	Hiroaki	Furuse	1 J, 100 Hz GENBU–Front End Laser System with Multi–TRAMs
13:30		Ryo	Yasuhara	Efficient second harmonic generation with pico–seconds pulses from a chirping TRAM regenerative amplifier
14:00		Junji	Kawanaka	Ultra–Broadband Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification with partially deutrated KDP crystal
14:30		Sebastian	Keppler	Multipass Amplifiers of POLARIS
15:00	Break
15:15	Architecture / Thermal Modeling	Paul	Mason	Design of a Multi–pass Extraction Architecture for the DiPOLE Prototype Amplifier
15:45		Magdalena	Sawicka	Numerical evaluation of ASE, heat generation and energy extraction in a 100 J cryogenically cooled multi–slab amplifier operating at 10 Hz for HiLASE Project
16:15		Hiroaki	Furuse	Thermal Analysis of Cryogenic Yb:YAG TRAM laser for High–Average Power Systems
16:45		Jay	Doster	DPSS Amplifiers for High–Energy Applications
17:15	Break
17:30	Non linear optics	Takashi	Sekine	High energy class second harmonics generation from CLBO crystal by 20–J DPSSL
18:00	Non linear optics	Mark	Henesian	High average power frequency conversion
18:30	Dinner
20:00	Reception

Time	Session Title	First Name	Last Name	Talk Title
	9/14/2012
7:30	Breakfast
8:30	Amplifier systems	Jörg	Körner	Cryogenically Cooled Laser Amplifiers
9:00		Joachim	Hein	Diode Laser Pump Engines
9:30		Break
9:45		Thierry	Novo	Lucia cryogenic amplifier head concept and qualification
10:15		Christoph	Wandt	Diode–pumped, active–mirror Yb:YAG imaging multi–pass amplification to the 1J–level
10:45		Antoine	Courjaud	Tunable millijoule sources from nanosecond to femtosecond regime, based on Yb:CaF2
11:15		Allan	Wirth	Advances in Wavefront Control for High Energy Laser Applications
11:45	Robust Optics	Jeff	Bude	Improved optical performance for optical materials in high fluence applications
12:15	Closing remarks	All