| Description |
1 online resource [iv, 26] pages : color illustrations |
| Summary |
"The U.S. and other nations are developing laser (i.e., "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation") applications, including High-energy Lasers (HEL) and Low-energy Lasers (LEL). While HELs will likely have military applications in Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), Counter-Air, Counter-Space, and Counter-Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR); HEL applications will be slow to proliferate to many potential adversaries due to high cost and technical complexity. However, LELs will be developed as technological byproducts of HELs and commercial applications, and will rapidly proliferate, even to resource-constrained actors, due to low cost and reduced technical complexity. By 2030, the Air Force will field air and space vehicles which will use focal plane arrays (FPAs) as optical sensors. This paper will argue that these sensitive FPAs will be vulnerable to LEL attack, which as LELs proliferate, could render the USAF's sensing technologies ineffective."--Introduction |
| Notes |
"16 February 2011." |
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[AY2011] |
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Vita |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
"A research report submitted to the faculty in partial fulfillment of the graduation requirements." |
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Online resource; title from PDF file (MSFRIC DigiTool, viewed on October 15, 2012) |
| Subject |
United States. Air Force -- Weapons systems -- Planning
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| SUBJECT |
United States. Air Force. fast (OCoLC)fst00538280 |
| Subject |
Focal planes.
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Lasers -- Military applications.
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Focal planes.
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Lasers -- Military applications.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Air University (U.S.). Air War College.
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