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- 19:33, 29 September 2021 diff hist +5,418 N Beam-Target Interactions Created page with "You've managed to direct the fearsome energies of your death ray beam onto your foe. Great! So now you have an intense irradiated spot on your target. What happens next? T..."
- 15:50, 29 September 2021 diff hist −32 Adaptive Optics
- 15:49, 29 September 2021 diff hist +34 Adaptive Optics
- 12:50, 29 September 2021 diff hist +199 Attenuation
- 12:42, 29 September 2021 diff hist −5 Diffraction
- 12:39, 29 September 2021 diff hist 0 m Diffraction
- 12:37, 29 September 2021 diff hist +16 Adaptive Optics
- 08:48, 29 September 2021 diff hist +44 Atmospheric Hole Burning
- 08:46, 29 September 2021 diff hist +14 Atmospheric Hole Burning
- 08:45, 29 September 2021 diff hist +166 Atmospheric Hole Burning
- 08:41, 29 September 2021 diff hist +3,514 N Atmospheric Hole Burning Created page with "We previously said that frequencies higher than ultraviolet-C - this would be vacuum ultraviolet, x-rays, and gamma rays - can’t get through air. This is mostly true, but t..."
- 08:37, 29 September 2021 diff hist +33 N Category:Lasers Created page with "Pages relating to laser weaponry."
- 08:36, 29 September 2021 diff hist +573 Dielectric Breakdown
- 08:31, 29 September 2021 diff hist +3,901 N Filamentation Created page with "A peculiar effect happens in air when laser pulses reach crazy-high intensities. The pulses start to get focused inward by the effect of the light on the air itself. The las..."
- 08:20, 29 September 2021 diff hist +21 Two-Photon Absorption
- 08:19, 29 September 2021 diff hist +21 Thermal Blooming
- 08:19, 29 September 2021 diff hist +21 Stimulated Scattering
- 08:18, 29 September 2021 diff hist +21 Diffraction
- 08:18, 29 September 2021 diff hist +21 Dielectric Breakdown
- 08:10, 29 September 2021 diff hist +21 Attenuation
- 08:09, 29 September 2021 diff hist +21 Adaptive Optics
- 22:09, 28 September 2021 diff hist +3,926 N Dielectric Breakdown Created page with "An electron is happily mining its own business floating freely around in the air when suddenly a high power laser beam comes by. How rude! The electric field of the laser be..."
- 21:50, 28 September 2021 diff hist +4,018 N Stimulated Scattering Created page with "What happens when your laser turns the air into a laser? You get stimulated scattering, and it can be a big problem for some kinds of beams. There is a physical phenomenon c..."
- 20:58, 28 September 2021 diff hist +2,675 N Two-Photon Absorption Created page with "It takes about 6.2 eV of energy to ionize an air molecule. So any laser beam that has an energy-per-photon of 6.2 eV or more will almost immediately be absorbed by air. This..."
- 20:44, 28 September 2021 diff hist +2,369 N Adaptive Optics Created page with "thumb|Adaptive optics correcting distorted light waves. The air is never still. Turbulence in the air makes bubbles of changing density...."
- 20:38, 28 September 2021 diff hist +135 N File:Adaptive optics correct.png Diagram demonstrating the use of a deformable mirror to correct for wavefront errors. Author: Bob Tubbs (public domain) current
- 20:34, 28 September 2021 diff hist +230 N File:Adaptive optics gas giant.png The improvement of resolution for imaging astronomical objects with (left) and without (right) adaptive optics. From P. Wizinowich et al., Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 112 : 315-319, 2000 current
- 19:39, 28 September 2021 diff hist +211 Attenuation
- 19:37, 28 September 2021 diff hist +4 Thermal Blooming
- 19:35, 28 September 2021 diff hist +287 Thermal Blooming
- 19:28, 28 September 2021 diff hist +118 m Thermal Blooming
- 19:22, 28 September 2021 diff hist +402 Thermal Blooming
- 19:22, 28 September 2021 diff hist +349 N File:Thermal blooming in wind.png Bending of a laser beam from an unperturbed circular shape (dashed circle) into a crescent shape due to thermal blooming in wind (Frederick Gebhardt, “Twenty-five years of thermal blooming: an overview”, Proc. SPIE 1221, Propagation of High-Energy Laser Beams Through the Earth’s Atmosphere, (1 May 1990); doi: 10.1117/12.18326). current
- 19:17, 28 September 2021 diff hist +3,277 Thermal Blooming
- 18:59, 28 September 2021 diff hist +4,007 N Thermal Blooming Created page with "A high powered laser going through the air will cause the air to heat up. If the laser beam lasts longer than a small fraction of a second, the hot air will expand and become..."
- 18:00, 28 September 2021 diff hist +3 m Attenuation
- 17:53, 28 September 2021 diff hist +133 Attenuation
- 16:15, 28 September 2021 diff hist +321 Attenuation
- 16:10, 28 September 2021 diff hist +255 Attenuation
- 16:05, 28 September 2021 diff hist +16 Attenuation
- 16:04, 28 September 2021 diff hist +260 Attenuation
- 15:56, 28 September 2021 diff hist 0 m Attenuation
- 15:55, 28 September 2021 diff hist +182 Attenuation
- 15:48, 28 September 2021 diff hist +23 File:Atmosphere absorption length LW IR.png current
- 15:47, 28 September 2021 diff hist +23 File:Atmosphere absorption length MW IR.png current
- 15:47, 28 September 2021 diff hist +23 File:Atmosphere absorption length near SW IR.png current
- 15:47, 28 September 2021 diff hist +23 File:Atmosphere absorption length vis near vis.png current
- 15:45, 28 September 2021 diff hist +1,866 Attenuation
- 15:20, 28 September 2021 diff hist +279 Attenuation
- 15:05, 28 September 2021 diff hist +619 Attenuation