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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2012
Richard F. Hubbard, Burke, VA (US);
Antonio C. Ting, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Joseph R. Peñano, Fairfax Station, VA (US);
Daniel F. Gordon, Waldorf, MD (US);
Phillip A. Sprangle, Great Falls, VA (US);
Bahman Hafizi, Bethesda, MD (US);
Arie Zigler, Washington, DC (US);
Richard F. Hubbard, Burke, VA (US);
Antonio C. Ting, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Joseph R. Peñano, Fairfax Station, VA (US);
Daniel F. Gordon, Waldorf, MD (US);
Phillip A. Sprangle, Great Falls, VA (US);
Bahman Hafizi, Bethesda, MD (US);
Arie Zigler, Washington, DC (US);
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A system and methods for the quasi-remote compression and focusing of a moderate-intensity laser pulse to form a much higher intensity beam that can be directed at a target and used as a probe beam or used in a probe beam converter to generate other forms of electromagnetic radiation or energetic particles. A system for the quasi-remote propagation of high-intensity laser beams in accordance with the present invention comprises a main platform on which a first, 'seed' laser pulse is generated, stretched, and amplified, and a remote platform, located at a distance from the main platform, which is configured to receive the amplified and stretched pulse and convert it into the high-intensity laser beam. The high-intensity laser beam in turn can then be converted into one or more probe beams directed at a target object.