Past Event Overview

Pacific Rim Laser Damage is the premier forum for scientists and engineers working in high power/high energy lasers, materials and thin films, durability, properties modeling, testing, and component fabrication.

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Program Information:

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Pacific Rim Laser Damage 2011 featured more than 85 presentations in these areas:

Laser Damage of Optical Materials

High power laser damage, UV through IR
Ultrafast through CW laser irradiation effects
Laser ablation and laser machining
High laser damage resistant coatings
Defects, contamination, polishing, and surface damage
Characterization techniques and measurement protocols
Mechanisms, Modeling, and simulations

Advanced Optical Materials

Nonlinear laser crystals
Laser ceramics
Optical glasses and fibers