Directed-Energy Beam Weapons
This book introduces modern directed-energy beam weaponry and emerging technical concepts based on unclassified and declassified information. The book covers laser systems, analyzing the interaction between high-power laser beams and matter, and examines
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DirectedEnergy Beam Weapons
Directed-Energy Beam Weapons
Bahman Zohuri
Directed-Energy Beam Weapons
Bahman Zohuri Galaxy Advanced Engineering, Inc. Albuquerque, NM, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-20793-9 ISBN 978-3-030-20794-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20794-6
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This book is dedicated to my son, Sasha
Preface
As we have seen in past decades, the directed-energy weapons (DEWs) are pushing toward a different direction and taking a new approach as directed-energy beam weapon (DEBWs), which is the dawn of new age defenses. This book focuses on new class of weapons that, as we stated, are known as directed-energy beam weapons, which not only have focused on high-energy laser (HEL) but have described particle-beam weapons (PBWs) as well as kinetic energy weapons (KEWs). This book also contains two new chapters: high-power microwave (HPM) as weapon of new approach to directed beam weapons and a new high-energy wave known as scalar longitudinal wave (SLW) which has a new potential as weapon of directed energy. The only difference between these two beam weapons and high-power or highenergy lasers is that these types of directed-energy weapons do not suffer from the deficiency of thermal blooming seen in high-energy laser beams when such laser beam travels through atmosphere, in particular when they propagate as either ground-based laser (GBL) or airborne laser (ABR) systems. Last one decade or so has also seen emergence of a new class of weapons known as directed-energy weapons (DEWs), leading to enhanced global interest from scientists and engineers in DEW development. Lasers, high-power microwaves, and hi
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