High power laser activities at Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Fumio Wani

doi:10.1117/12.2522454

3 January 2019 High power laser activities at Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Fumio Wani

Proceedings Volume 11042, XXII International Symposium on High Power Laser Systems and Applications; 1104203 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2522454
Event: XXII International Symposium on High Power Laser Systems and Applications, 2018, Frascati, Italy

Abstract

Activities on high power laser at Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (KHI) are reviewed. We started R and D of high power laser technologies from the development of Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser (COIL) for industrial application in 1886. With advent of the 21st century, we shifted the application of our COIL technologies, and successfully received the contract of major high power laser R and D program from the Japan Ministry of Defense (J-MoD) in 2010. The COIL has many attractive features such as high power, good beam quality, etc., but the system is a bit complicated due to the chemical pumping. Currently, we are developing single-mode fiber laser and beam combing technologies for the downsizing of military high power laser.

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Fumio Wani "High power laser activities at Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.", Proc. SPIE 11042, XXII International Symposium on High Power Laser Systems and Applications, 1104203 (3 January 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2522454

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