The importance of thermal blooming for laser weapon atmospheric propagation modelling

Jean-François Daigle; Grégoire Tremblay; Francis Théberge; Dominik Pudo

doi:10.1364/PCAOP.2021.PTh2E.4

OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress 2021 (3D, COSI, DH, ISA, pcAOP)
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2021),
paper PTh2E.4
•https://doi.org/10.1364/PCAOP.2021.PTh2E.4

The importance of thermal blooming for laser weapon atmospheric propagation modelling

Jean-François Daigle, Grégoire Tremblay, Francis Théberge, and Dominik Pudo

Propagation Through and Characterization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Phenomena 2021

Washington, DC United States
19–23 July 2021
ISBN: 978-1-943580-89-7

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J. Daigle, G. Tremblay, F. Théberge, and D. Pudo, "The importance of thermal blooming for laser weapon atmospheric propagation modelling," in OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress 2021 (3D, COSI, DH, ISA, pcAOP), H. Hua, B. Javidi, M. Martinez-Corral, O. Matoba, A. Stern, S. Thibault, T. Alieva, J. Ke, F. Willomitzer, F. Okten, P. Silveira, P. Banerjee, E. Stoykova, D. Chu, J. Park, F. Imai, C. Joo, M. Digman, D. Gardner, S. Gladysz, D. LeMaster, S. Basu, and O. Korotkova, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2021), paper PTh2E.4.

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Abstract

Thermal blooming occurs when a laser is sufficiently intense to modify the properties of the propagation medium via a thermal transfer of energy. It is investigated with a kW-class near-infrared fiber laser over extended ranges.

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