High Energy Laser Propagation: Environmental Effects

Authors

• Dana F. Morrill, Air Force Institute of Technology
• Benjamin F. Akers, Air Force Institute of TechnologyFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

6-2017

Abstract

The environmental effects of high energy laser propagation are numerically simulated in a wave optics model. Convective heating is coupled with the beam dynamics in the high energy limit.

Comments

© 2017 Optical Society of America

This conference paper is available to Optica subscribers via the DOI link below.

Current AFIT students, faculty and staff may access the paper by clicking here.

Co-author Dana Morrill was an AFIT PhD student at the time of this conference. (AFIT-ENC-DS-18-S-003, September 2018 graduate)

There is a follow-up paper (2018) under the same title: https://scholar.afit.edu/facpub/2007

DOI

10.1364/PCAOP.2017.PW1D.4

Source Publication

Propagation Through and Characterization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Phenomena 2017

Recommended Citation

C. D. Morrill and B. Akers, "High Energy Laser Propagation: Modeling Scintillation Effects," in Imaging and Applied Optics 2019 (COSI, IS, MATH, pcAOP), OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2019), paper PTh2D.3. https://doi.org/10.1364/PCAOP.2017.PW1D.4