A Simple Method for Treating Diffractive Propagation from a Laser with Diagnostic Optics.

Abstract

The diffractive propagation of a complex laser beam through a multi-element optical system is considered. It is shown that the problem can be easily reduced to propagation of a quasi-collimated laser beam in free space through a distance d sub eff determined by successive applications of a simple lens equation. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 19, 1979
Accession Number
ADA085871

Entities

People

  • J. C. Nixon
  • J. F. Perkins
  • R. W. Jones

Organizations

  • United States Army Aviation and Missile Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coherent Radiation
  • Diffraction
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Fresnel Integrals
  • Helium Neon Lasers
  • Images
  • Integrals
  • Intensity
  • Laser Beams
  • Lasers
  • Observation
  • Observation Aircraft
  • Plane Waves
  • Radiation
  • Spherical Waves
  • Wavefronts
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Space