Power and energy storage requirements for ship integration of solid-state lasers on naval platforms

The United States Navy's interest in high-energy lasers (HELs) dictates the need for further study into the propagation of laser light through different atmospheric conditions. Due to the amount of energy required to power these laser weapons systems and the limited amount of available energy onboard ships, different energy storage systems need to be explored. For this research, two locations were studied: the coast of Cuba and the coast of Russia. These two locations were studied during moderate winter conditions for varying laser output power: 150 kW, 500 kW, and 1 MW. The laser performance code ANCHOR was used to estimate the number of successful HEL engagements that can proceed against a certain target using various configurations of energy storage as the laser output power is varied.

Department dc:contributor.department

Physics (PH)

Grantor dc:publisher

Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School

Year dc:date.issued

2016

Author dc:creator

• Valiani, Joshua H.

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Blau, Joseph
• Cohn, Keith

Statement dc:rights

• This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10945/49406

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/49406