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 21st 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.
