Accession Number:

AD1018618

Title:

Continued Optical Sensor Operations in a Laser Environment

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

Air War College Air University Maxwell AFB United States

Personal Author(s):

• Diehl,William J.

Report Date:

2011-02-16

Pagination or Media Count:

31.0

Abstract:

The U.S. and other nations are developing laser i.e., light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation applications, including High-energy Lasers HEL and Low-energy Lasers LEL. While HELs will likely have military applications in Ballistic Missile Defense BMD, Counter-Air, Counter-Space, and Counter-Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance ISR HEL applications will be slow to proliferate to many potential adversaries due to high cost and technical complexity. However, LELs will be developed as technological byproducts of HELs and commercial applications, and will rapidly proliferate, even to resource-constrained actors, due to low cost and reduced technical complexity.

Descriptors:

• optical detectors
• lasers
• electromagnetism
• high energy lasers
• illumination
• air force
• Focal Plane Arrays
• integrated circuits
• laser applications
• diffraction
• signal processing
• military applications
• complementary metal oxide semiconductors

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE