Industrial Affiliates Symposium

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Short Course – Beam Control for Laser Systems
Mark Spencer, Director, Joint Directed Energy Transition Office

Short Course – Introduction to Lasers
Peter Delfyett, CREOL, UCF

Research 1 Room 101AB

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Lab Tours CREOL Building

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Special Guest Lecture – Laser Communications in Space
Matthew Reichert, CACI
CREOL 102/103

6:30 pm

Industrial Affiliates Mixer
Island Wing Company – UCF

8:30 am – 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast and Walk In Registration

Welcome to UCF Michael Johnson, UCF Provost

Welcome and Overview of CREOL David Hagan, Dean & Director

Session I - High Power Lasers

9:30 am – 11:00 am

Keynote Presentation: Overview of the Joint Directed Energy Transition Office
Mark Spencer, Director, Joint Directed Energy Transition Office

Laser Delivery in Hollow Core Fibers
Rodrigo Amezcua Correa, CREOL, UCF

Student Talk – Propagation of Ultrafast Laser Pulses
LaShae Smith

Break

Session II - Industry Focus

11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Industry Updates: Optica

Company Spotlights
KLA, LIA, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Industry Updates: SPIE

Group Photo/Poster Session/Lunch

Company Spotlights
Fibertek, Powerlight Technology, MegaWatt Laser

Session III - Lasers for Sensing and Communications

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Student of the Year Talk – Dual-Comb Molecular Spectroscopy from Mid-IR to THz
Dmitrii Konnov

Keynote Presentation: Laser-based Sensing: An Information Theoretic Perspective
Michael Wardlaw, US Navy

Coherently Combined Direct Diode Laser Systems
Guifang Li, CREOL, UCF

Student Talk – Low-noise Chip Scale Frequency Comb Lasers through Optical Injection Locking
Srinivas Varma Pericherla

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Awards and Closing Reception