Past Event Overview

Pacific Rim Laser Damage. Photo courtesy NIST.


SPIE/SIOM Pacific Rim Laser Damage 2015, the forum for scientists and engineers working in high-power/high-energy lasers, materials and thin films, durability, properties modeling, testing, and component fabrication.

2015 Conference Topics:
 • 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
 • Nonlinear laser crystals
 • Laser ceramics
 • Optical glasses and fibers