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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
May. 25, 2011
William B. King, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
John D. Isker, Sun City, CA (US);
Chaunchy F. Mckearn, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Eric J. Griffin, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
William B. King, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
John D. Isker, Sun City, CA (US);
Chaunchy F. Mckearn, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Eric J. Griffin, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
The system includes a rotary turret platform for aiming of a high power laser beam. The system further includes a turret payload device coupled to the rotary turret platform. The system further includes an off-axis telescope coupled to the turret payload, having an articulated secondary mirror for correcting optical aberrations, and configured to reflect the high power laser beam to a target through a first of at least two conformal windows. The system further includes an illuminator beam device configured to actively illuminating the target to generate a return aberrated wavefront through the first of the at least two conformal windows. The system further includes a coarse tracker coupled to the turret payload, positioned parallel to and on an axis of revolution of the off-axis telescope, and configured to detect, acquire, and track the target through the second of the at least two conformal windows.