Appendix B
Meetings and Participating Organizations
MEETING 1
December 7-8, 2009
The Keck Center of the National Academies
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Infrared Focal Plane Array (IRFPA) Revitalization
A. Fenner Milton, Director, Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate, U.S. Army
Advanced Detector Arrays for Navy Sensors
Mel Kruer, Senior Scientist, Naval Research Laboratory
Antenna Coupled IR Detectors
Glenn Boreman, Trustee Chair Professor of Optics and Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida
Recent Progress in HgCdTe IR Detectors at DRS Technologies
Pradip Mitra, Director, Advanced Development Programs
Sponsor Presentation
Kurt M., Science and Technology Analyst, Intelligence Community
Elliott Lehman, Science and Technology Analyst, Defense Intelligence Agency
Emerging Sensor Technologies for Army Applications
John Pellegrino, Director, Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate, Army Research Laboratory
Type II InAs-GaSb Superlattices: A Developing Material System vs. Mercury Cadmium Telluride: The State-of-the-art Infrared Detection Technology
Manijeh Razeghi, Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices, Northwestern University
MEETING 2
January 20-21, 2010
The Keck Center of the National Academies
Washington, D.C.
Air Force Research in Detector Technologies
Lyn Brown, Program Manager, Air Force Research Laboratory
Technology Developments
Terence Haran, Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Status and Trends at Semiconductor Devices—Cooled and Uncooled Detectors
Zvi Kopolovich, Vice President for Programs and Product Lines Management
Future of Imaging
John Miller, Chief Technical Officer for FLIR (Forward-looking Infrared)
Government Systems Division, FLIR Systems
Advanced Imager Technology Development at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Vyshnavi Suntharalingam, Senior Technical Staff, Advanced Imaging Technology, Lincoln Laboratory
MEETING 3
February 16-18, 2010
Albuquerque, N. Mex.
Ultimate Sensitivity at Shortwave Infrared Wavelengths Using Single-Photon Detection
Mark Itzler, Chief Technical Officer, Princeton Lightwave, Inc.
Insights on Global R&D and Markets
James “Spider” Marks (Major General, U.S. Army, retired), Managing Partner, Ergo
Passive Infrared Optimal Waveband Selection and Time Series Processing
Paul Oglesby, Senior Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Missile Systems
Novel Nano-injector Detectors: Towards High-resolution Single-photon Imagers at Shortwave Infrared (SWIR)
Hooman Mohseni, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Infrared Focal Plane Technologies with Emphasis on Multi- and Hyperspectral
Paul LeVan, Branch Technical Advisor, Air Force Research Laboratory
Advanced Focal Plane Technology for National Intelligence Missions
Kurt Lanes, Senior Engineer, Space Missions Program Office, Sandia National Laboratories
Performance Update on New Generation of Hybrid Silicon, Visible Focal Plane Arrays
John Hubbs, Chief Scientist, Infrared Radiation Effects Laboratory, Air Force Research Laboratory
Imaging Infrared Detector Arrays
Dutch Staplebroek, Research Professor, University of Arizona
Identifying Key Technologies from a Systems Integration Perspective
Neil Siegel, Sector Vice President and Chief Engineer, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
Detectors for Photon-starved Optical Communications: Present and Future Directions
Bill Farr, Optical Communications Technology Manager, Optical Communications Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Active Pixel Image Sensors: Status and Future Direction
Eric Fossum, President, ImageSensors, Inc.
Next-generation Infrared Detectors: Evaluating Type II Superlattices and Quantum Dots
Sanjay Krishna, Associate Professor, University of New Mexico