Ms. Alison M. Yates Profile

Alison M. Yates

Director of Virtual Prototyping at Zemax LLC

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Publications (9)

Proceedings Article | 19 February 2009 Paper

High-peak-power short-pulse fiber laser for materials processing

Alison Thomas, Deborah Alterman, Mark Bowers

Proceedings Volume 7195, 719518 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.810162

KEYWORDS: Dispersion, Fiber lasers, Materials processing, Solid state lasers, Photonic crystal fibers, Picosecond phenomena, Fiber amplifiers, Modulation, Phase modulation, Optical amplifiers

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Proceedings Article | 3 April 2008 Paper

Comparison of spectral beam combining approaches for high power fiber laser systems

Pratheepan Madasamy, Tom Loftus, Alison Thomas, Pat Jones, Eric Honea

Proceedings Volume 6952, 695207 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.783147

KEYWORDS: Fiber lasers, Diffraction gratings, Oscillators, Laser systems engineering, Diffraction, Collimation, Ytterbium, Channel projecting optics, High power fiber lasers, Laser development

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Proceedings Article | 10 May 2007 Paper

522 W spectrally beam combined fiber laser with near-diffraction limited beam quality

Thomas Loftus, Raul Hoffman, Alison Thomas, Marc Norsen, Robert Royse, Eric Honea

Proceedings Volume 6552, 65520O (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.719789

KEYWORDS: Fiber lasers, Diffraction gratings, Diffraction, Optical amplifiers, Laser systems engineering, Near field optics, Ytterbium, CCD cameras, Beam analyzers, Distortion

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Proceedings Article | 20 February 2007 Paper

High power spectrally beam combined fiber laser with near-diffraction limited beam quality

Thomas Loftus, Paul Hoffman, Alison Thomas, Marc Norsen, Robert Royse, Eric Honea

Proceedings Volume 6453, 64530S (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.702574

KEYWORDS: Fiber lasers, Diffraction gratings, Diffraction, Optical amplifiers, Laser systems engineering, Near field optics, Ytterbium, CCD cameras, Beam analyzers, Distortion

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Proceedings Article | 23 February 2006 Paper

258 W of spectrally beam combined power with near-diffraction limited beam quality

Thomas Loftus, Anping Liu, Paul Hoffman, Alison Thomas, Marc Norsen, Charles Hamilton, Eric Honea

Proceedings Volume 6102, 61020S (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.648097

KEYWORDS: Fiber lasers, Diffraction gratings, Ytterbium, Diffraction, Optical amplifiers, Distortion, Polarization, Laser development, Laser systems engineering, Fiber amplifiers

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Proceedings Article | 26 October 2000 Paper

Polymer liquid crystal membrane filters in space applications

Alison Thomas, Chrysa Theodore, Patrick Hood

Proceedings Volume 4134, (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.405366

KEYWORDS: Liquid crystals, Polymers, Optical filters, Oxygen, Polarizers, Ultraviolet radiation, Absorbance, Polymer thin films, Optical alignment, Reflection

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Proceedings Article | 24 October 2000 Paper

Effects of stereochemistry on the static and dynamic performance of glassy liquid crystals

Patrick Hood, Alison Thomas, Chrysa Theodore

Proceedings Volume 4107, (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.405309

KEYWORDS: Birefringence, Liquid crystals, Electro optics, Polarizers, Phase measurement, Switches, Ocean optics, Spectroscopy, Glasses, Molecules

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Proceedings Article | 24 October 2000 Paper

Processing of alignment layers for glassy liquid crystals

Chrysa Theodore, Alison Thomas, D. Ernest Havens, Patrick Hood, Dimitris Katsis, Shaw Chen

Proceedings Volume 4107, (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.405321

KEYWORDS: Liquid crystals, Optical alignment, Polymers, Magnetism, Electro optics, Switching, Birefringence, Polarizers, Spectroscopy, Crystals

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Proceedings Article | 24 October 2000 Paper

Fabrication and performance of chiral liquid crystal polymer membranes

Alison Thomas, Chrysa Theodore, Patrick Hood

Proceedings Volume 4107, (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.405322

KEYWORDS: Liquid crystals, Polarizers, Optical filters, Polymers, Absorbance, Optical alignment, Polymer thin films, Polarization, Reflection, Glasses

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