Effects of Relative Platform and Target Motion on Propagation of High Energy Lasers

Abstract

To facilitate the study of engagement scenarios with high energy lasers, the Directed Energy Physics Group at the Naval Postgraduate School developed a laser performance code called Atmospheric NPS Code for HEL Optical pRopagation (ANCHOR). This code uses well-known analytical scaling laws and a scriptable user interface to allow the quick exploration of multi-dimensional parameter studies. Recently, a new capability was added that incorporates relative platform / target motion. This study demonstrates this new capability, and compares ANCHOR results with those obtained with the full diffraction code built into WaveTrain.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1026559

Entities

People

  • Hayati Emir

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Amplifiers
  • Atmospheric Attenuation
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Diffraction
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Free Electron Lasers
  • Free Electrons
  • High Energy
  • High Energy Lasers
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser Weapons
  • Lasers
  • Refractive Index
  • Specific Heat
  • Strehl Ratio
  • Wind Velocity

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy