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SPIE Laser Damage 2023
Organizer:
SPIE - the international society for optics and photonics
Duration:
Sep 17 - 20, 2023
Venue:
Holiday Inn
Location:
United States
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Introduction:
The 55th Annual Laser Damage Symposium, also known as Symposium on Optical Materials for High Power Lasers, will be held 17 - 20 September 2023 in Dublin-Livermore, CA. This meeting continues to be the leading forum for the exchange of information on the physics and technology of materials for high-power and high-energy lasers.
The series of conference proceedings has grown over the history of the conference to be a comprehensive source of information on optics for lasers and includes topics on laser-induced damage mechanisms, materials and thin film preparation, durability, properties modeling, testing, and component fabrication.
Since 2012, selected papers presented at this symposium are published in special sections of Optical Engineering (OE) - one of the major journals published by SPIE. For reference, the latest laser damage special section was published in the July 2022 issue of OE in the SPIE Digital Library.
This symposium will feature 10 core topic sessions with focuses on materials and measurements, thin films, fundamental mechanisms, and surfaces, mirrors and contamination, a mini-symposium on mid-infrared lasers and laser materials, and the Thin-Film Laser-Damage Competition. As usual, it will include both poster and oral presentations with no parallel sessions. Distinguished international researchers in the field of optics for high-power/high-energy lasers will present invited talks on the four core topical sections and the mini-symposium.