Research Areas
High Energy Lasers
System Performance
- HEL JTO Modeling and Simulation Efforts
System Concepts
- Innovative Tactical Beam Control System
- Modeling Systems Comprised of Multiple Tiled Subapertures
- Space Laser Power Beaming
Adaptive Optics and Propagation
- Airborne Aero-Optics Laboratory
- Optimization of Tactical HEL Architectures
Phenomenology
- Atmospheric Effects on Directed Energy Weapons
- Thermal Blooming
- Climate Change Impacts on Low Altitude Cn2 and Effects on DEW Employment
- 4D - Cn2 Predictions from Ground and In-place Observations
- Remote Multispectral Estimation of Irradiance on Distant Surfaces
- Characterization of Off Axis Scatter
- Source Characterization from Atmospheric Scatter
- Atmospheric Characterization at Diode Pumped Alkali Laser line
- Diode Pumped Alkali Lasers: Spectral Lineshape Experiments
- Supersonic Flow Visualization
Enabling Technologies
- Beam Control
- Beam Combination
- Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Fiber Lasers
- Tactical Target Tracking
- Monocular Passive Ranging
Laser-Target Interaction
- Bi-Directional Reflectivity Distribution Functions (BRDF)
- Thermal Response (Finite Element Models, FEM)
Laser Communications Effects and Optimization
High Power Microwaves
- Ionizing Radiation Effects on Modern Digital Electronics
- Single Surface Multipactor
- Analysis of Cathode Fiber Coating
- Terrahertz Imaging of Damaged Aircraft Composites
- Terrahertz Spectroscopy