Unmanned aerial vehicle based agile optical beam steering system

Lewis F. DeSandre; Harold E. Bennett; Howard Hyman

doi:10.1117/12.208212

26 April 1995 Unmanned aerial vehicle based agile optical beam steering system

Lewis F. DeSandre, Harold E. Bennett, Howard Hyman

Proceedings Volume 2376, Laser Power Beaming II; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.208212
Event: Photonics West '95, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper addresses the potential augmentation of a quasi-stationary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with a highly agile beam steering optical system. In addition to the primary application of relaying laser power from a ground station to low earth orbit satellites, applications include (1) precision tracking and ranging at distances of a few hundred kilometers, (2) covert communications to distances of 80 km utilizing only a modulable corner cube at the receiving end and (3) pollution detection and control and (4) continuous meteorological analysis of high altitude wind, CO₂ content, liquid water content, ice particle effective radius, effective drop size, optical depth and density, turbulence structure and emissivity profile.

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Lewis F. DeSandre, Harold E. Bennett, and Howard Hyman "Unmanned aerial vehicle based agile optical beam steering system", Proc. SPIE 2376, Laser Power Beaming II, (26 April 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.208212

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