The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization has conducted a successful demonstration of a laser radar in a discrimination test against a dummy warhead launched by a sounding rocket. Called Firefly, the experiment was designed to determine the laser radar's ability to identify unarmed decoys that might be dispersed to defeat a strategic defense system. The tracking device, known as Firepond, is a high-power, wideband, isotopic carbon dioxide laser radar. Infrared wavelength signal is amplified by a narrowband pulsed carbon dioxide amplifier. The frequency is modulated with a SSB modulator and further amplified by a high-power electron beam sustained discharge, pulsed wideband laser amplifier. The use of carbon-13 isotope gives the laser better atmospheric performance with less distortion.


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    Title :

    Laser radar discriminates against decoy targets


    Additional title:

    Laserradar unterscheidet Zielobjekte von Ködern


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Signal ; 44 , 10 ; 41-42


    Publication date :

    1990


    Size :

    2 Seiten



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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