College of Natural Sciences Annual Poster Sessions
State-of-the-art measurement of the laser beam divergence, Preston Countryman, Chad Gillis, Chris 
   Griffo, and Dr. Anna Petrova-Mayor, 2009

1. ‣ Rebuilding the Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL), Terry McAfee, Chris Griffo, Dr. Anna
      Petrova-Mayor, and Dr. Shane Mayor, 2009
   
   

2. ‣ Diagnostics and characterization of a high peak-power short pulsed Nd:YAG laser, Alex Skeffington,
     Austin Hagerman,Chris Wylie and Dr. Anna Petrova-Mayor, 2010
     This poster won the “People’s Choice” award in the category Faculty and Undergraduate Students
   
   

3. ‣ Development of an optical system for testing a Fabry-Perot etalon for use in eye-safe high-spectral resolution lidars at 1543-nm wavelength,  Alex Skeffington and Dr. Anna Petrova-Mayor, 2011
   

50th Anniversary of the Physics Department, Alumni Meeting, May 2nd 2009

1. ‣ Trends in Optics and Lasers at Chico State
   
   Invited talk at the Department for Quantum Electronics, Sofia University, Bulgaria, June 8th 2010
   

2. ‣ Development of an eye-safe tunable solid-state laser based on Cr4+:YAG for lidar applications

Attended the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and The Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS) as part of the efforts to improve the upper division labs in Optics and Lasers. 

Attended the 25th International Laser Radar Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, 5-9 July 2010

Visited the Lidar Labs at the Institute of Electronics of the Bulgarian Academy of Science,

Laboratory for Nonlinear Optics and Solid-State Lasers, and the Laboratory for Spectroscopy at the Department of Physics, Sofia University, Bulgaria, June 2010