Airborne Laser Laboratory departure from Kirtland Air Force Base and a brief history of aero-optics

Demos T. Kyrazis

doi:10.1117/1.OE.52.7.071403

26 December 2012 Airborne Laser Laboratory departure from Kirtland Air Force Base and a brief history of aero-optics

Demos T. Kyrazis

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 52, Issue 7, 071403 (December 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.7.071403

Abstract

We discuss aspects of the development of the Airborne Laser Laboratory. Our discussion is historical in nature and consists of the text from a speech given on the occasion of the Airborne Laser Laboratory leaving Kirtland Air Force Base (AFB) to fly to Wright-Patterson AFB to become an exhibit at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. The last part of the discussion concerns the inception of the study of aero-optics as an area of research and some of the milestones in the understanding of the causes and prediction of aero-optical effects.

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Demos T. Kyrazis "Airborne Laser Laboratory departure from Kirtland Air Force Base and a brief history of aero-optics," Optical Engineering 52(7), 071403 (26 December 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.7.071403

Published: 26 December 2012

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