PhAST Applications Track

New this year, the CLEO technical program features a PhAST application track which focuses on applied research.

Sessions:

• UV LEDs for Health and Safety
• Applications of Solid-State Lighting
• Defense Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics Technology
• Lasers and Optics for Astronomy and Spacebased Surveying
• Visible Displays and Projectors
• Optical Imaging

View Tim Carrig, 2009 PhAST Co-Chair, discussing highlights of the PhAST applications track in the CLEO technical program.

UV LEDs for Health and Safety

Tuesday, June 2, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

PTuA1, III-Nitride Based Deep UV LEDs and Applications, Remis Gaska; Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc, USA.

PTuA2, Prospects and Challenges for Disinfection Using UV Light Emitting Diodes, D. G. Knight; Trojan Technologies, Canada.

PTuA3, Shedding Light on Nutrition, Steve Britz¹, Roman Mirecki¹, Jose Sullivan²; ¹Food Components and Health Lab, USDA, USA, ²Dept. of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, Univ. of Maryland, USA.

PTuA4, Application of UV LEDs to the Design of Low Cost Biological Aerosol Detectors, Peter Hairston; Northrop Grumman Corp., USA.

Applications of Solid-State Lighting

Tuesday, June 2, 2:15 p.m.–4:15 p.m.

PTuB1, LED Lighting Systems, Neal Hunter; Cree, Inc., USA.

PTuB2, The Use of Visible and Infrared LED and Advanced Hybrid Lighting Technologies in Tactical Illumination System Applications, Mark Schmidt; Cyberlux Corp., USA.

PTuB3, Roadblocks to High Efficiency Solid-State Lighting: Bridging the “Green-Yellow Gap,” Mary Crawford, D. D. Koleske, S. R. Lee, J. Y. Tsao, A. M. Armstrong, G. T. Wang, A. J. Fischer, J. J. Wierer, M. E. Coltrin, L. E. Shea-Rohwer; Sandia Natl. Labs, USA.

PTuB4, HVPE InGaN for LEDs: State of the Art and Horizons, Alexander Syrkin; Technologies and Devices Intl., Inc., Oxford Instruments, USA.

Defense Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics Technology

Wednesday, June 3, 1:15 p.m.–3:15 p.m.

PWA1, Chemical-Biological Detection Overview, Cindy Swim, Richard Vanderbeek, Darren Emge; Edgewood Chemical Biological Ctr., USA.

PWA2, Coarse-to-Fine: A Layered Sensing Approach to Situational Awareness, Edward Watson; AFRL, USA.

PWA3, HEL-JTO Programs in Directed Energy, Don Seeley¹, Mark Neice¹, Jack Slater², Siva Mani²; ¹High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office (HEL-JTO), USA, ²Schafer Corp., USA.

PWA4, Airborne Laser Program Overview, Steve Post; Missile Defense Agency, USA.

Lasers and Optics for Astronomy and Spacebased Surveying

Wednesday, June 3, 4:45 p.m.–6:45 p.m.

PWB1, The Decadal Survey, Berrien Moore; Climate Central, USA.

PWB2, Lasers and Electro-Optics for Ground-Based Astronomy, Richard Dekany; Caltech, USA.

PWB3, The Coming Generation of Large Optical Telescopes, Craig Foltz; Natl. Science Foundation, USA.

PWB4, GeoEye-1, the World's Highest Resolution Commercial Satellite, Michael Madden; GeoEye, USA.

Visible Displays and Projectors

Thursday, June 4, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

PThA1, Future Flexible OLED Displays for Army Applications, Eric Forsythe¹, J. Shi¹, S. Liu¹, D. C. Morton¹, Doug Loy², Yong Kyun Lee², Cynthia Bell², Mark Richards², Ed Bawolek², Scott Ageno², Curt Moyer², Michael Marrs², Jann Kaminski², Nick Colaneri², Shawn M. O'Rourke², Jeff Silvernail³, Kamala Rajan³, Ruiqing Ma³, Michael Hack³, Julie J. Brown³; ¹US Army Res., USA, ²Arizona State Univ., USA, ³Universal Display Corp., USA.

PThA2, Multiwatt High-Efficiency CW Single-Mode Visible Lasers for Ultrahigh-Resolution Displays, Forrest L. Williams, Dennis F. Elkins, Jesse P. Anderegg, Bret D. Winkler, Robert R. Christensen, Cameron C. Farmer, Calvin L. Simmons; Evans & Sutherland, USA.

PThA3, Solid-State SHG Green Laser for Laser TV, Yoshihito Hirano, Tomohiro Sasagawa, Takayuki Yanagisawa, Syuhei Yamamoto, Akira Nakamura, Tetsuya Yago, Hiroaki Sugiura; Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan.

PThA4, Green Lasers for Micro-Projection Display Applications, David A. S. Loeber; Corning Photonic Technologies, Inc., USA.

Optical Imaging

Thursday, June 4, 2:15 p.m.–4:15 p.m.

PThB1, Sensing for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation, Wende Zhang; General Motors, USA.

PThB2, Optical Sensors for Space Proximity Operations, Patrick Earhart, Rex Craig; Ball Aerospace, USA.

PThB3, Synthetic Aperture Imaging at Optical Wavelengths, Joseph Buck, B. W. Krause, A. I. R. Malm, C. M. Ryan; Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA.

PThB4, Fourier Domain Modelocking (FDML): Rapidly Wavelength Swept Lasers for High Speed Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Robert Huber; Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München, Germany.