Description of Position The Spokane-based Applied Sciences Laboratory (ASL) of the Institute for Shock Physics (ISP) at Washington State University is a contract research organization. We conduct a broad range of applied science and technology projects for government agencies and corporations, including technology transfer for commercial applications. Our research activities span the physical sciences, engineering, and biomedical sciences. Within the physical sciences, many of our experiments focus on optics and spectroscopy, utilizing a variety of lasers (e.g., pulsed/cw high energy/power lasers, frequency doubled/tripled/ quadrupled lasers, optical parametric amplifiers, femtosecond lasers, cw laser diodes, etc.). We also use a wide array of optical dete