Laser Technology (Selected Articles).

Abstract

This paper presents high-energy CW HF/DF chemical lasers developed under the U.S. Navy Sealite program and the Alpha program of the DARPA Triad program, and a brief account of Soviet chemical lasers. Continuous wave HF/DF chemical lasers were developed starting in the late sixties as high-power lasers of consistent interest to military circles. These are lasers that have the most matured technology among present-day high-energy lasers. It is hoped that in the near future CW HF/DF chemical lasers can be developed into a space laser weapon to deal with ICBMs. CW HF/DF chemical lasers are an integration of technologies in gas dynamics, chemistry, fluid chemistry, optics, and lasers. By using the branching chain reaction of heat liberation, inversion of the population ratio is generated to obtain lasers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 09, 1996
Accession Number
ADA310409

Entities

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chain Reactions
  • Chemical Lasers
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Continuous Waves
  • Energy
  • Gas Dynamics
  • Gas Lasers
  • High Energy
  • High Energy Lasers
  • Laser Applications
  • Laser Weapons
  • Lasers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster