High Average Power Active Tracker Laser Technology

Abstract

Through the Phillips Laboratory's Active Tracker Laser (ATLAS) program, high average power, high pulse repetition frequency diode-pumped solid-state laser technology has been under development since 1992. A solid-state laser illuminator requirement was generated, in support of the Ground Based Laser Technology program, for closed loop tracking of actively illuminated low Earth orbit satellites. As a result of this laser technology development effort, high brightness laser sources at both 1.064 micrometers and 532 nanometers have been developed and demonstrated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA394829

Entities

People

  • Stephen G. Post

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Amplifiers
  • Diffraction
  • Earth Orbits
  • Far Field
  • Frequency
  • Gain
  • Images
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser Diodes
  • Laser Pulses
  • Lasers
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Near Field
  • Power Amplifiers
  • Solid State Lasers
  • Yag Lasers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects