The status of high-power lasers and their applications in the battlefield

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Kalisky, Yehoshua ^a   Kalisky, Ofra ^b  

^a NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

^b JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

ABL; Chemical lasers; Disk laser; Fiber lasers; Laser weapon; Solid state laser

Indexed keywords

ABL; AIRBORNE LASERS; DEFENSIVE WEAPONS; DIODE-PUMPED; DISK LASERS; HEAT-CAPACITY LASERS; LASER WEAPON; LASER WEAPONS; LASERS , FIBER; LASERS , SOLID-STATE; NONLETHAL; NOVEL CONCEPT; ULTRA-FAST; VARIOUS CONFIGURATION;

CHEMICAL LASERS; FIBER LASERS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; GAS LASERS; MILITARY EQUIPMENT; SOLID STATE LASERS;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 81355150484     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3484954     Document Type: Article

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