Special Section Guest Editorial: Aero-Optics and Adaptive Optics for Aero-Optics

Eric J. Jumper

doi:10.1117/1.OE.52.7.071401

15 April 2013 Special Section Guest Editorial: Aero-Optics and Adaptive Optics for Aero-Optics

Eric J. Jumper

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 52, Issue 7, 071401 (April 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.7.071401

Abstract

Since the early 1980s when the Airborne Laser Laboratory (ALL) first demonstrated that a high-energy laser flown in a military aircraft was capable of performing both offensive and defensive missions, the concept of a speed-of-light weapon system has been in the mind of future weapons planners. The ALL used a powerful CO₂ laser which lased at 10.6 μm. The maximum intensity at the target for a diffraction-limited beam of power P_o and aperture A is related to the inverse of wavelength λ times distance to the target R squared:

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Eric J. Jumper "Special Section Guest Editorial: Aero-Optics and Adaptive Optics for Aero-Optics," Optical Engineering 52(7), 071401 (15 April 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.7.071401

Published: 15 April 2013

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