Air Force seeks technologies to enhance Airborne Laser project

Posted on: May. 8th, 2007 || Source: mae.pennnet.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

KIRTLAND AFB, N.M., 8 May 2007. Air Force researchers are asking industry to develop new enabling electro-optic technologies for the Airborne Laser system (ABL), which is designed to destroy ballistic missiles in flight.

Researchers are asking industry for a 20 kHz frame rate, low noise wavefront sensing and tracking shortwave infrared camera, as well as for advanced supersonic diffusers for chemical oxygen-iodine lasers (COIL) on the ABL.

Making the requests are experts at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate (DE) at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.

The sensing and tracking shortwave infrared camera is for the Starfire Optical Range (SOR) for integration into an adaptive optics brassboard testbed as a self-referencing interferometer (SRI) wavefront sensor.

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