Alastair D. McAulay

Military Laser Technology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Lasers in War is the first book to collect and explain the laser system technologies used and proposed for the battlefield. It provides the basic knowledge to create, design, and implement a wide variety of laser systems for warfare, including only unclassified or declassified information.

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Recent advances in ultra-high-power lasers, including the free-electron laser, and impressive airborne demonstrations of laser weapons systems, such as the airborne laser, have shown the enormous potential of laser technology to revolutionize 21st century warfare.

Military Laser Technology for Defense, includes only unclassified or declassified information. The book focuses on military applications that involve propagation of light through the atmosphere and provides basic relevant background technology. It describes high-power lasers and masers, including the free-electron laser. Further, Military Laser Technology for Defense addresses how laser technology can effectively mitigate six of the most pressing military threats of the 21st century: attack by missiles, terrorists, chemical and biological weapons, as well as difficulty in imaging in bad weather and threats from directed beam weapons and future nuclear weapons. The author believes that laser technology will revolutionize warfare in the 21st century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 698g
• ISBN-13: 9780470255605
• ISBN-10: 0470255609
• Artikelnr.: 33610337

Autorenporträt

ALASTAIR D. McAULAY, PHD, is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University.Previously he was NCR professor and chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University and program manager in the Central Research Laboratories of Texas Instruments. He has published more than 150 papers and his book Optical Computer Architectures, published by Wiley in 1991, has been used for courses around the world and reprinted several times. Contact the author at www.linkedin.com/in/alastairmcaulay

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. I OPTICS TECHNOLOGY FOR DEFENSE
SYSTEMS. 1 OPTICAL RAYS. 1.1 Paraxial Optics. 1.2 Geometric or Ray Optics.
1.3 Optics for Launching and Receiving Beams. 2 GAUSSIAN BEAMS AND
POLARIZATION. 2.1 Gaussian Beams. 2.2 Polarization. 3 OPTICAL DIFFRACTION.
3.1 Introduction to Diffraction. 3.2 Uncertainty Principle for Fourier
Transforms. 3.3 Scalar Diffraction. 3.4 Diffraction-Limited Imaging. 4
DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS. 4.1 Applications of DOEs. 4.2 Diffraction
Gratings. 4.3 Zone Plate Design and Simulation. 4.4 Gerchberg-Saxton
Algorithm for Design of DOEs. 5 PROPAGATION AND COMPENSATION FOR
ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE. 5.1 Statistics Involved. 5.2 Optical Turbulence in
the Atmosphere. 5.3 Adaptive Optics. 5.4 Computation of Laser Light Through
Atmospheric Turbulence. 6 OPTICAL INTERFEROMETERS AND OSCILLATORS. 6.1
Optical Interferometers. 6.2 Fabry-Perot Resonators. 6.3 Thin-Film
Interferometric Filters and Dielectric Mirrors. II LASER TECHNOLOGY FOR
DEFENSE SYSTEMS. 7 PRINCIPLES FOR BOUND ELECTRON STATE LASERS. 7.1 Laser
Generation of Bound Electron State Coherent Radiation. 7.2 Semiconductor
Laser Diodes. 7.3 Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers. 8 POWER LASERS. 8.1
Characteristics. 8.2 Solid-State Lasers. 8.3 Powerful Gas Lasers. 9 PULSED
HIGH PEAK POWER LASERS. 9.1 Situations in which Pulsed Lasers may be
Preferable. 9.2 Mode-Locked Lasers. 9.3 Q-Switched Lasers. 9.4 Space and
Time Focusing of Laser Light. 10 ULTRAHIGH-POWER CYCLOTRON MASERS/LASERS.
10.1 Introduction to Cyclotron or Gyro Lasers and Masers. 10.2
Gyrotron-Type Lasers and Masers. 10.3 Vircator Impulse Source. 11
FREE-ELECTRON LASER/MASER. 11.1 Significance and Principles of
Free-Electron Laser/Maser. 11.2 Explanation of Free-Electron Laser
Operation. 11.3 Description of High- and Low-Power Demonstrations. III
APPLICATIONS TO PROTECT AGAINST MILITARY THREATS. 12 LASER PROTECTION FROM
MISSILES. 12.1 Protecting from Missiles and Nuclear-Tipped ICBMs. 12.2 The
Airborne Laser Program for Protecting from ICBMs. 12.3 Protecting from
Homing Missiles. 12.4 Protecting Assets from Missiles. 13 LASER TO ADDRESS
THREAT OF NEW NUCLEAR WEAPONS. 13.1 Laser Solution to Nuclear Weapons
Threat. 13.2 Description of National Infrastructure Laser. 14 PROTECTING
ASSETS FROM DIRECTED ENERGY LASERS. 14.1 Laser Characteristics Estimated by
Laser Warning Device. 14.2 Laser Warning Devices. 15 LIDAR PROTECTS FROM
CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS. 15.1 Introduction to Lidar and Military
Applications. 15.2 Description of Typical Lidar System. 15.3 Spectrometers.
15.4 Spectroscopic Lidar Senses Chemical Weapons. 16 94 GHz RADAR
DETECTS/TRACKS/IDENTIFIES OBJECTS IN BAD WEATHER. 16.1 Propagation of
Electromagnetic Radiation Through Atmosphere. 16.2 High-Resolution
Inclement Weather 94 GHz Radar. 16.3 Applications, Monitoring Space, High
Doppler, and Low Sea Elevation. 17 PROTECTING FROM TERRORISTS WITH W-BAND.
17.1 Nonlethal Crowd Control with Active Denial System. 17.2 Body Scanning
for Hidden Weapons. 17.3 Inspecting Unopened Packages. 17.4 Destruction and
Protection of Electronics. BIBLIOGRAPHY. INDEX.