Journal Papers

A.D. Palla, J.W. Zimmerman, B.S. Woodard, D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, T.C. Lim, and W.C. Solomon, “Oxygen discharge and post-discharge kinetics experiments and modeling for the electric oxygen-iodine laser system,” J. Phys. Chem. A, Vol. 111, pp. 6713-6721 (2007).

G.H. Miley, N. Luo, J. Mather, R. Burton, G. Hawkins, L. Gu, E. Byrd, R. Gimlin, Pr.J. Shrestha, G. Benavides, J. Laystrom, and D. Carroll, “Direct NaBH4/H2O2 fuel cells,” Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 165, pp. 509-516 (2007).

A.D. Palla, D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, and W.C. Solomon, “Effects of mixing on postdischarge modeling of electric oxygen-iodine laser experiments,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 100, 023117 (2006).

J.T. Verdeyen, D.L. Carroll, D.M. King, J. Laystrom, G. Benavides, J. Zimmerman, B. Woodard, and W.C. Solomon, "Continuous-wave laser oscillation in subsonic flow on the 1315 nm atomic iodine transition pumped by electric discharge produced O2(1D)," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 89, 101115 (2006).

D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, D.M. King, J. Zimmerman, J. Laystrom, B. Woodard, G. Benavides, N. Richardson, K. Kittell, and W.C. Solomon, "Studies of CW laser oscillation on the 1315 nm transition of atomic iodine pumped by O2(1Delta) produced in an electric discharge," IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 41, No. 10, Oct. 2005, pp. 1309-1318.

A.S. Kovalev, D.V. Lopaev, Yu.A. Mankelevich, N.A. Popov, T.V. Rakhimova, A.Yu. Poroykov, and D.L. Carroll, “Kinetics of O2(b1Sigma+g) in oxygen RF discharges,” J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., Vol. 38, pp. 2360-2370 (2005).

D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, D.M. King, J. Zimmerman, J. Laystrom, B. Woodard, G. Benavides, K. Kittell, D.S. Stafford, M.J. Kushner, and W.C. Solomon, "Continuous-wave laser oscillation on the 1315 nm transition of atomic iodine pumped by O2(1Delta) produced in an electric discharge," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 86, 111104-1 (2005).

D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, D.M. King, J. Zimmerman, J. Laystrom, B. Woodard, G. Benavides, K. Kittell, and W.C. Solomon, "Path to the measurement of positive gain on the 1315 nm transition of atomic iodine pumped by O2(1Delta) produced in an electric discharge," IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 41, No. 2, Feb. 2005, pp. 213-223.

D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, D.M. King, J. Zimmerman, J. Laystrom, B. Woodard, N. Richardson, K. Kittell, M.J. Kushner, and W.C. Solomon, "Measurement of positive gain on the 1315 nm transition of atomic iodine pumped by O2(1Delta) produced in an electric discharge," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 85, No. 8, pp. 1320-1322 (2004).

D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, D.M. King, B. Woodard, L. Skorski, J. Zimmerman, and W.C. Solomon, "Modeling of the ElectriCOIL System," IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 39, No. 9, Sep. 2003, pp. 1150-1159.

D.L. Carroll, D.M. King, L. Fockler, D. Stromberg, W.C. Solomon, L.H. Sentman, and C.H. Fisher, "High-Performance Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser using Nitrogen Diluent for Commercial Applications," IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 36, No. 1, Jan. 2000, pp. 40-51.

A. Kar, D.L. Carroll, W.P. Latham, and J.A. Rothenflue, "Cutting performance of a chemical oxygen-iodine laser on aerospace and industrial materials," Journal of Laser Applications, Vol. 11, No. 3, June 1999, pp. 119-127.

G. Yang, L.E. Reinstein, S. Pai, Z. Xu, and D.L. Carroll, "A new genetic algorithm technique in optimization of permanent 125-I prostate implants," Medical Physics, Vol. 25, No. 12, December 1998, pp. 2308-2315.

D.L. Carroll and J.A. Rothenflue, "Experimental study of cutting thick aluminum and steel with a chemical oxygen-iodine laser using an N2 or O2 gas assist," Journal of Laser Applications, Vol. 9, No. 3, June 1997, pp. 119-128.

P.T. Theodoropoulos, L.H.Sentman, D.L.Carroll, R.E. Waldo, S.J. Gordon, and J.W. Otto, "Continuous Wave Hydrogen Flouride Overtone Lasing Saturation Effects on Fundamental Gain Suppression," AIAA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 6, June 1996, pp. 1216-1223.

D.L. Carroll, "Chemical Laser Modeling with Genetic Algorithms," AIAA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2, February 1996, pp. 338-346.

D.L. Carroll, "Modeling High-Pressure Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Lasers," AIAA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 8, August 1995, pp. 1454-1462.

D.L. Carroll, "The effects of a non-homogeneous gain saturation law on predicted performance of a high-gain and a low-gain laser system," Applied Optics, Vol. 33, No. 9, March 1994, pp. 1673-1681.

R.E. Waldo, L.H. Sentman, P.T. Theodoropoulos, and D.L. Carroll, "HF Chemical Laser Multiple Pass Amplifier Performance," AIAA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1, January 1994, pp. 130-136.

D.L. Carroll and L.H. Sentman, "Maximizing output power of a low-gain laser system," Applied Optics, Vol. 32, No. 21, July 1993, pp. 3930-3941.

D.L. Carroll, L.H. Sentman, P.T. Theodoropoulos, R.E. Waldo and S. J. Gordon, "Experimental Study of Continuous Wave Hydrogen-Fluoride Chemical Laser Overtone Performance," AIAA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 4, April 1993, pp. 693-700.

D.L. Carroll, R. Johnson, S.J. Pfeifer and R.H. Moyer, "Experimental investigations of stimulated Brillouin scattering beam combination," Journal of the Optical Society of America-B, Vol. 9, No. 12, Dec. 1992, pp. 2214-2224.

L.H. Sentman, R.E. Waldo, P.T. Theodoropoulos, T.X. Nguyen and D.L. Carroll, "HF Chemical Laser Amplifier Performance: Experiment," AIAA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1, Jan. 1992, pp. 138-144.

Articles

G. Emanuel, E. Jumper, W.J. Burke and D.L. Carroll, "The Year in Review: Plasmadynamics and Lasers," Aerospace America, Dec. 1996, p.19. Correction to article, Aerospace America, Feb. 1997, p. 8.

Conference Papers

G.F. Benavides, A.D. Palla, D.M. King, D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, J.K. Laystrom, T.H. Field, J.W. Zimmerman, B.S. Woodard, and W.C. Solomon, “Hybrid ElectricOIL Discharge, Gain, and Power Enhancements,” AIAA Paper 2007-4623, AIAA 38th Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, Miami, FL, 25-28 June 2007.

A.D. Palla, J.W. Zimmerman, B.S. Woodard, D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, T.C. Lim, W.T. Rawlins, S. Lee, S.J. Davis, and W.C. Solomon, “ElectricOIL discharge and post-discharge kinetics experiments and modeling,” Proceedings of Laser Beam Control and Applications Conference, San Jose, California, 22-25 January 2007, SPIE Vol. 6454, pp. 645419-1-12 (2007).

D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, D.M. King, A.D. Palla, J.K. Laystrom, G.F. Benavides, J.W. Zimmerman, B.S. Woodard, and W.C. Solomon, “Development of the electric discharge oxygen-iodine laser,” Proceedings of the XVI International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High Power Laser Conference, Gmunden, Austria, 4 – 8 September 2006, The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 6346, pp. 63460H-1-8 (2007).

T.V. Rakhimova, A.P. Palov, Yu.A. Mankelevich, N.A. Popov, and D.L. Carroll, “Mixing of post-discharge O2/He flow with NO2/He flow: 3D modeling of experimental data,” Proceedings of the XVI International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High Power Laser Conference, Gmunden, Austria, 4 – 8 September 2006, The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 6346, pp. 634622-1-7 (2007).

D.M. King, D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, J.K. Laystrom, G.F. Benavides, A.D. Palla, J.W. Zimmerman, B.S. Woodard, and W.C. Solomon, “Power Enhancement of the Hybrid ElectricOIL Laser,” AIAA Paper 2006-3756, AIAA 37th Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, San Francisco, CA, 5-8 June 2006.

J.W. Zimmerman, D.M. King, A.D. Palla, J.T. Verdeyen, D.L. Carroll, J.K. Laystrom, G.F. Benavides, B.S. Woodard, W.C. Solomon, W.T. Rawlins, S.J. Davis, and M.C. Heaven, “Important kinetic effects in the hybrid ElectricOIL system,” Proceedings of the High Power Laser Ablation Conference, Taos, New Mexico, 8-12 May 2006, The Int. Soc. for Opt. Eng., P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010, in press.

R.L. Burton, V.L. Coverstone, J. Hargens-Rysanek, K. Ertmer, T. Botter, G.F. Benavides, B. Woo, D.L. Carroll, P. Gierow G. Farmer, and J. Cardin, “UltraSail - Ultra-Lightweight Solar Sail Concept,” AIAA Paper 2005-4117, 41st AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Tucson, Arizona, 10-13 July 2005.

D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, D.M. King, J.W. Zimmerman, J.K. Laystrom, G.F. Benavides, B.S. Woodard, K. Kittell, and W.C. Solomon, “Recent Experiments with the ElectricOIL Laser System,” AIAA Paper 2005-4915, AIAA 36th Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 6-9 June 2005.

A.D. Palla, D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, and W.C. Solomon, “Post-Discharge Modeling of Recent ElectricOIL Experiments,” AIAA Paper 2005-4919, AIAA 36th Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 6-9 June 2005.

G.L. Detweiler, L.H. Sentman, and D.L. Carroll, “The Possibility of Hot Reaction Enhancement of CW HF Laser Performance,” AIAA Paper 2005-5042, AIAA 36th Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 6-9 June 2005.

S.J. Mayer, A.D. Palla, L.H. Sentman, and D.L. Carroll, “Experimental Study of Time-Dependent Oscillations in a cw HF Chemical Laser Confocal Unstable Resonator,” AIAA Paper 2005-5364, AIAA 36th Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 6-9 June 2005.

A.D. Palla, L.H. Sentman, and D.L. Carroll, “Simulation of Time-Dependent Oscillations in a cw HF Chemical Laser Confocal Unstable Resonator,” AIAA Paper 2005-5365, AIAA 36th Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 6-9 June 2005.

D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, D.M. King, J.W. Zimmerman, J.K. Laystrom, A.D. Palla, B.S. Woodard, G.F. Benavides, K. Kittell, and W.C. Solomon, “Recent Experiments and Post-Discharge Modeling with the ElectricOIL Laser System,” Proc. of the ICONO/LAT 2005 Conf., St. Petersburg, Russia, 10-15 May 2005, in press.

D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, D.M. King, J.W. Zimmerman, J.K. Laystrom, B.S. Woodard, G.F. Benavides, K. Kittell, and W.C. Solomon, “Experimental Effects of Atomic Oxygen on the Development of an Electric Discharge Oxygen Iodine Laser,” Proceedings of the XV International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High Power Laser Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 30 August – 3 September 2004, The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 5777, pp. 215-220 (2005).

D.L. Carroll, Verdeyen, J.T., King, D.M., Benavides, G., Woodard, B.S., Richardson, N., Solomon, W.C., Rawlins, W.T., Davis, S.J., and Kessler, W.J., “Preliminary yield measurements in the ElectriCOIL system,” Proceedings of the Gas and Chemical Lasers and Applications IV Conference, San Jose, California 26 January 2004, The Int. Soc. for Opt. Eng. Vol. 5334, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010, pp. 79-87.

W.C. Solomon, J.W. Zimmerman, L.W. Skorski, B. Woodard, D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, and D.M. King, "Recent Progress in Modeling the ElectriCOIL System," Presented at Laser Optics 2003 held in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 30 - July 3, 2003 (paper presented at conference, but mistakenly left out of proceedings).

D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, J.W. Zimmerman, L.W. Skorski, and W.C. Solomon, "Recent Electrodynamics Modeling of the ElectriCOIL System," AIAA Paper 2003-4030, AIAA 34th Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, June 23-26, Orlando, FL, 2003.

D.L. Carroll, D.M. King, J.T. Verdeyen, B. Woodard, J.W. Zimmerman, L.W. Skorski, and W.C. Solomon, "Recent Experimental Measurements of the ElectriCOIL System," AIAA Paper 2003-4029, AIAA 34th Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, June 23-26, Orlando, FL, 2003.

J.W. Zimmerman, L.W. Skorski, W.C. Solomon, M.J. Kushner, J.T. Verdeyen, and D.L. Carroll, "Electrodynamic modeling of the ElectriCOIL system," Proceedings of the Gas and Chemical Lasers and Intense Beam V Conference, San Jose, California 30 January 2003, The Int. Soc. for Opt. Eng. Vol. 4971, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010, pp. 81-86.

D.L. Carroll, J.T. Verdeyen, D.M. King, B. Woodard, L.W. Skorski, J.W. Zimmerman, and W.C. Solomon, "Recent Work on the Development of an Electric Discharge Oxygen Iodine Laser," Proceedings of the XIV International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High Power Laser Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, 26-30 August 2002, The International Society for Optical Engineering, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, Washington 98227-0010, in press.

D.L. Carroll, D.M. King, L. Skorski, W.C. Solomon, and J.T. Verdeyen, "Modeling the ElectriCOIL System," AIAA Paper 2002-2277, AIAA 33rd Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, May 20-23, 2002.

W.T. Rawlins, D.B. Oakes, P.A. Mulhall, S.J. Davis, D.L. Carroll, and L.H. Sentman, "Advanced Optical Diagnostics for HF Laser Development," AIAA Paper 2002-2221, AIAA 33rd Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, May 20-23, 2002.

J.T. Verdeyen, D.M. King, D.L. Carroll, W.C. Solomon, “Diagnostic development for the ElectriCOIL flow system,” Proceedings of the Gas and Chemical Lasers and Intense Beam Applications III Conference, San Jose, California 22-24 January 2002, The Int. Soc. for Opt. Eng. Vol. 4631, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010, pp. 154-160.

D.M. King, W.C. Solomon, D.L. Carroll, R.L. Burton, E.L. Antonsen, F. Rysanek, and J. Frus, “Development of a Multiplexed Coaxial Pulsed Plasma Thruster,” Proc. of the Int. Electric Propulsion Conf. 2001 held in Pasadena, CA, October 2001, IEPC-01-150.

D.M. King, D.L. Carroll, J.K. Laystrom, J. Verdeyen, M. Sexauer, and W.C. Solomon, "ElectriCOIL: Preliminary Experiments of Excited Oxygen Generation by RF Discharge," Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Lasers 2000 held in Albuquerque, NM, eds. V. Corcoran and T. Corcoran, STS Press, McLean VA, 2001, pp. 265-272.

D.L. Carroll and W.C. Solomon, "ElectriCOIL: An Advanced Chemical Iodine Laser Concept," Proceedings of the XIII International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High Power Laser Conference, Florence, Italy, 18-22 September 2000, The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 4184, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, Washington 98227-0010, pp. 40-44.

D.S. Stromberg, L.A. Fockler, D.L. Carroll, and W.C. Solomon, "New Simulations for COIL lasers from the University of Illinois," Proceedings of Laser Optics 2000 held in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 26-30, 2000, The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 4351, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, Washington 98227-0010, pp. 60-71.

D.L. Carroll, W.C. Solomon, D.M. King, L. Fockler, D. Stromberg, M. Sexauer, A. Milmoe, and L.H. Sentman, "Advanced Mixing Nozzle Concepts for COIL," Proceedings of the International Conference on Lasers '99, eds. V.J. Corcoran and T.A. Goldman, STS Press, McLean VA, 2000, pp. 69-77.

W.C. Solomon, D.L. Carroll, D.M. King, L. Fockler, D. Stromberg, M. Sexauer, A. Milmoe, and L.H. Sentman, "Commercial Applications for COIL," Proceedings of the High Power Lasers in Civil Engineering and Architecture Conference held in Osaka, Japan, 1-5 November 1999, The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 3887, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, Washington 98227-0010, pp. 137-151.

W.P. Latham, K.R. Kendrick, J.A. Rothenflue, A. Kar, D.L. Carroll, "Cutting performance of a chemical oxygen-iodine laser on aerospace and industrial materials," Proceedings of the High Power Lasers in Civil Engineering and Architecture Conference held in Osaka, Japan, 1-5 November 1999, The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 3887, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, Washington 98227-0010, pp. 200-204.
D.L. Carroll, D.M. King, L. Fockler, D. Stromberg, W.C. Solomon, L.H. Sentman, and C.H. Fisher, "Performance of a High Power Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser using Nitrogen Diluent," Proceedings of the International Conference on Lasers '98, eds. V.J. Corcoran and T.A. Goldman, STS Press, McLean VA, 1999, pp. 257-268.

D.L. Carroll, D.M. King, L. Fockler, D. Stromberg, T.J. Madden, W.C. Solomon, L.H. Sentman, and C.H. Fisher, "COIL for Industrial Applications," AIAA Paper 98-2992, AIAA 29th Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, June 15-18, 1998.

W.P. Latham, J.A. Rothenflue, C.A. Helms, A. Kar and D.L. Carroll, "Cutting Performance of a Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser," Proceedings of Gas and Chemical Lasers and Intense Beam Applications Conference, 1998, The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 3268, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, Washington 98227-0010, pp. 130-136.
J.A. Rothenflue, C.A. Helms, W.P. Latham, A. Kar and D.L. Carroll, "Measurement of the Cutting Performance of a High Beam Quality Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser on Aerospace and Industrial Materials," Proceedings of ICALEO'97, Laser Institute of America, San Diego, CA, 17-20 November 1997.
D.L. Carroll, J.A. Rothenflue, A. Kar, and W.P. Latham, "Experimental Analysis of the Materials Processing Performance of a Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser," Proceedings of ICALEO'96, Laser Institute of America, Volume 81E, Laser Materials Processing: New Developments in Laser Sources and Applications, Southfield, Michigan, 14-17 October 1996, pp. 19-27.

D.L. Carroll and J.A. Rothenflue, "Experimental study of cutting thick aluminum and steel with a chemical oxygen-iodine laser using an N2 or O2 gas assist," XI International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers and High Power Laser Conference, pp. 758-763, Edinburgh, UK, 25-30 August 1996, The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 3092, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, Washington 98227-0010. This was an invited paper.

T.J. Madden, D.L. Carroll and W.C. Solomon, "An Investigation of High Pressure COIL Performance Improvement Methods Using CFD," AIAA Paper 96-2354, AIAA 27th Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, June 17-20, 1996.
D.L. Carroll, "Genetic Algorithms and Optimizing Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Lasers," Developments in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Vol. XVIII, eds. H.B. Wilson, R.C. Batra, C.W. Bert, A.M.J. Davis, R.A. Schapery, D.S. Stewart, and F.F. Swinson, School of Engineering, The University of Alabama, 1996, pp. 411-424.

D.L. Carroll, "Optimizing High Pressure Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Lasers," Proceedings of the International Conference on Lasers '95, eds. V.J. Corcoran and T.A. Goldman, STS Press, McLean VA, 1996, pp. 225-231. This was an invited paper.