Integration of Adaptive Optics into High Energy Laser Modeling and Simulation

Abstract

We investigate the corrective effect of adaptive optics (AO) on High Energy Laser (HEL) beam propagation through atmospheric turbulence. The effect of adaptive optics systems was first integrated into a laser propagation scaling code, ANCHOR, that was developed within the Direct Energy (DE) research group at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). Using a host of plausible input parameters, we then compare the estimated target irradiance increase accomplished by various adaptive optics systems. In various cases, adaptive optics is shown to substantially increase the effective range of HELs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1046505

Entities

People

  • Donald Puent

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Optics
  • Air Force
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Chemical Lasers
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Control Systems
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Free Electron Lasers
  • Laser Applications
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser Guided Projectiles
  • Laser Weapons
  • Lasers
  • Light (Electromagnetic Radiation)
  • Optics
  • Refractive Index
  • Tactical High-Energy Lasers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy