Strategic defense initiatives at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Abstract
This presentation reviews the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) programs, noting especially the needs for and applications of optics and optical technologies. The various activities at Los Alamos contributing to SDI programs are used. The principal, nonnuclear SDI programs are: (1) the free electron laser, and (2) neutral particle beams. Both should be considered as potential long-range-kill systems, but still in the futuristic category.
- Publication:
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Presented at the Southwest Conf. on Opt
- Pub Date:
- May 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985opt..conf.....R
- Keywords:
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- Defense Program;
- Free Electron Lasers;
- Laser Weapons;
- Neutral Beams;
- Weapons Development;
- Laser Applications;
- Particle Accelerators;
- Pulsed Radiation;
- Space Weapons;
- Strategy;
- Lasers and Masers