Pacific Rim Laser Damage Symposium

Pacific Rim Laser Damage Symposium. Photo courtesy NIST.

SPIE/SIOM Pacific Rim Laser Damage has now concluded.

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. Go to the Pacific-Rim Laser Damage Chinese website.

Program Information:

•	View Final Program (PDF)
•	View Technical Summary Digest (PDF)

Pacific Rim Laser Damage 2012 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

The latest Research in High Power Lasers, Materials and Thin Films, Properties Modeling, and More

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