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10 May 2011 Performance modeling of the effects of aperture phase error, turbulence, and thermal blooming on tiled subaperture systems
Charles L. Leakeas, Shay R. Capehart, Richard J. Bartell, Salvatore J. Cusumano, Matthew R. Whiteley
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Proceedings Volume 8038, Atmospheric Propagation VIII; 803803 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883207
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States
Abstract
Laser weapon systems comprised of tiled subapertures are rapidly emerging in importance in the directed energy community. Performance models of these laser weapon systems have been developed from numerical simulations of a high fidelity wave-optics code called WaveTrain which is developed by MZA Associates. System characteristics such as mutual coherence, differential jitter, and beam quality rms wavefront error are defined for a focused beam on the target. Engagement scenarios are defined for various platform and target altitudes, speeds, headings, and slant ranges along with the natural wind speed and heading. Inputs to the performance model include platform and target height and velocities, Fried coherence length, Rytov number, isoplanatic angle, thermal blooming distortion number, Greenwood and Tyler frequencies, and atmospheric transmission. The performance model fit is based on power-in-the-bucket (PIB) values against the PIB from the simulation results for the vacuum diffraction-limited spot size as the bucket. The goal is to develop robust performance models for aperture phase error, turbulence, and thermal blooming effects in tiled subaperture systems.
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Charles L. Leakeas, Shay R. Capehart, Richard J. Bartell, Salvatore J. Cusumano, and Matthew R. Whiteley "Performance modeling of the effects of aperture phase error, turbulence, and thermal blooming on tiled subaperture systems", Proc. SPIE 8038, Atmospheric Propagation VIII, 803803 (10 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883207
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KEYWORDS
Performance modeling
Data modeling
Atmospheric propagation
Thermal blooming
Atmospheric modeling
Turbulence
Wavefronts
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