Book description
Recent advances in ultra-high-power lasers, including the free-electron
laser, and impressive airborne demonstrations of laser weapons systems,
such as the airborne laser, have shown the enormous potential of laser
technology to revolutionize 21
st
century warfare.
Military Laser Technology for Defense, includes only
unclassified or declassified information. The book focuses on military
applications that involve propagation of light through the atmosphere
and provides basic relevant background technology. It describes high-power lasers and masers, including the
free-electron laser. Further, Military Laser Technology for
Defense addresses how laser technology can effectively mitigate
six of the most pressing military threats of the 21st century: attack
by missiles, terrorists, chemical and biological weapons, as well as
difficulty in imaging in bad weather and threats from directed beam
weapons and future nuclear weapons. The author believes that laser
technology will revolutionize warfare in the 21st century.
Alastair D. McAulay, PhD, is Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University. Previously
he was NCR professor and chairman of the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering at Wright State University and program manager
in the Central Research Laboratories of Texas Instruments. He has
published more than 150 papers and his book Optical Computer
Architectures, published by Wiley in 1991, has been used for
courses around the world and reprinted several times.
Contact the author at www. linkedin. com/in/alastairmcaulay
