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MA1 - Welcome Remarks
MA1.1 - AFRL MUNITIONS DIRECTORATE WELCOME
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The Munitions Directorate of Air Force Research Laboratory and the Team Eglin community welcomes you to the 2019 IEEE sponsored forum for Research and Applications of Photonics in Defense (RAPID). RAPID’s 48 technical sessions will expound leading edge technologies to enable the DoD enterprise.MA1.2 - FORCE MODERNIZATION OPPORTUNITIES AND ISSUES
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We provide a brief overview of the OSD Office of Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E), and how we are preparing for T&E of emerging technologies, illustrating our efforts with a focus on Autonomous Systems, their properties, and the associated T&E challenges and opportunities.MA1.3 - HOW PRACTITIONERS AND LEADERS TALK PAST EACH OTHER
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This presentation discusses how differing points of view often mask coherent communication between practitioners and leaders as programs develop. The prentation also offers potential solutions.
MA1.4 - PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS MEET QUANTUM
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We outline directions in the development of high-speed quantum photonics and report on single-photon sources and modulators with bandwidths approaching the THz range. The use of plasmonics to outpace quantum decoherence and the application of machine-learning techniques for quantum optical measurements will be also discussed.
ML - Young Professionals Luncheon
TL - WIP LUNCHEON - IN HINDSIGHT— LESSONS 19 FRIENDS SHARED ABOUT THEIR COMBINED 500+ YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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This professional development presentation focuses on lessons learned over a 24 year career in DOD R&D. The speaker will discuss topics ranging from the importance of finding a trusted mentor to the process of deciding when is time to look for a new job.
TuA1.1 - OBSERVATION OF EXCEPTIONAL-POINTS IN PLASMONICS
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We report using an original approach, the first observation of exceptional point in plasmonic at room temperature.
TuA1.2 - MULTISPECTRAL PLASMONIC PERFECT ABSORBERS INTEGRATED WITH ROOM-TEMPERATURE VOX AIR-BRIDGE BOLOMETERS
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Room-temperature microbolometer arrays with sensitivity in narrow wavelength bands for spectral imaging in the mid-wave and long-wave infrared are described. The approach is based on vanadium-oxide air-bridge bolometers that are integrated with plasmonic resonant absorbers to maintain response speed without adding processing complexity.
TuA1.3 - PLASMONIC INFRARED ATTENUATOR
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A variable attenuator for high-powered IR beams, based on MEMS-controlled excitation of surface plasmon polaritons on suitably conducting surfaces is described. Materials choice determines the useful spectral band. Intensity variation over nine-orders is theoretically possible.
TuA1.4 - ENHANCED MWIR LED PERFORMANCE WITH A PLASMONIC GRATING
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To improve the efficiency of GaSb-based mid-wave infrared LEDs, we investigated the enhanced spontaneous emission by a dipole in a thin slab numerically. A Purcell factor around 30 was achieved by combining a thin waveguide and plasmonic grating.
TuA1.5 - MICROSPHERE PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY PATTERNING OF PLASMONIC SENSORS ON OPTICAL FIBER
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Microsphere Photolithography uses a self-assembled hexagonal lattice of microspheres as an optical element to focus collimated light to an array of photonic jets inside a layer of photoresist. This technique is applied to pattern optical fiber for refractive index sensing and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy.