High-power lasers for directed-energy applications: reply
Open Access
- 31 May 2017
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 56 (16) , 4825-4826
Abstract
The comment by Vorontsov and Weyrauch [Appl. Opt. 55, 9950 (2016) [CrossRef] ] is aimed at rebutting the critiques in Sprangle et al. [Appl. Opt. 54, F201 (2015) [CrossRef] ] and Nelson et al. [Appl. Opt. 55, 1757 (2016) [CrossRef] ]. In the comment, Vorontsov and colleagues describe their experiments aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of coherent combining of lasers on a distant target, using relatively low-power lasers and a cooperative retro-reflective target. The Naval Research Laboratory has demonstrated the capability to project high power on a distant target by making use of an incoherent combining architecture. The proof-of-concept experiments were performed in a realistic environment without employing cooperative targets and without sophisticated adaptive optics instrumentation.Keywords
Funding Information
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
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