Continued Optical Sensor Operations in a Laser Environment

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 16, 2011
Accession Number
AD1018618

Entities

People

  • William J. Diehl

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductors
  • Detectors
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Laser Applications
  • Lasers
  • Military Applications
  • Optical Detectors
  • Optics
  • Semiconductors
  • Signal Processing
  • Spacecraft
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Space