Pulsed Laser Metrology Workshop

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is sponsoring a one-and-a-half-day workshop bringing together international experts from industry, academia, and government organizations to identify key optical metrology needs for extreme pulsed lasers (high peak power Terawatt to Petawatt class or high pulse energies).

Goals:

• Develop a list of key optical measurements for these pulsed lasers including achievable measurement uncertainty.
• Identify the roadblocks preventing researchers from being able to report trusted error bars for these measurements.
• Outline next steps to improving these measurement capabilities.
• Generate a publicly available report from the information gathered above.

Format: A series of invited talks on extreme pulsed laser metrology needs along with break-out groups to generate recommendations. All talks are “Invited” with an emphasis on discussion. In this true workshop format the attendees will be as important as the speakers. Attendance is limited to 30-50 participants.

Workshop program committee:

• Luis Miaja-Avila (Co-chair, NIST)
• Paul Williams (Co-chair, NIST)
• David Garand (Sydor Technologies)
• Bryan Holtsberry (U.S. Army)
• Hiromitsu Kiriyama (QST)
• Daniel Kramer (ELI Beamlines)
• Mike Litos (University of Colorado)
• Marco Lopez (PTB)
• Daniel Short (U.S. Army)