A microcomputer-controlled laser beam analyzer
Abstract
A microcomputer-controlled laser beam analyzer is described. It uses five INTEL 8080 microcomputers to calculate the beam's peak intensity, peak intensity coordinates, centroid coordinates, beam energy, and beam quality in real time. Its application to the U.S. Army's gas-dynamic laser is illustrated.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronic Systems
- Pub Date:
- July 1982
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1982ITAES..18..358H
- Keywords:
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- Electronic Control;
- Intel 8080 Microprocessor;
- Laser Outputs;
- Optical Measuring Instruments;
- Signal Analyzers;
- Signal Processing;
- Centroids;
- Gasdynamic Lasers;
- Light Beams;
- Luminous Intensity;
- Microcomputers;
- Real Time Operation;
- Lasers and Masers