Method and system for countering laser technology
AssigneeScience Applications International Corporation
InventorsScott Earl McNeil, Martin Joseph Fritts, Roy Reed Heddleston, Martin B. Mark
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Abstract
Described herein is a method and system for providing a countermeasure against laser detection systems using nanocomponent material that is tailored to cloak or obscure a target from detection by transmitted laser radiation. The nanodot material absorbs and/or down-converts the transmitted laser radiation. Similarly, described herein is a method and system for providing a countermeasure against laser systems intended to blind a target through the use of a specifically engineered nanocomponent material for absorbing and/or down-converting the radiation from the laser system.
Claims17
A method for obscuring a target from laser effects comprising:
- engineering a first nanocomponent material to absorb at a first transmitted radiation wavelength of a first laser transmission device;
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- releasing the first nanocomponent material in the vicinity of the target, wherein the first transmitted wavelength of the first laser transmission device is absorbed by the first nanocomponent material, prior to reaching the target;
- wherein each of the multiple first nanocomponents is encapsulated in, or attached to, a first polymer matrix;
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- wherein the first polymer matrix is selected from the group consisting of polystyrene and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA).
A method for obscuring a target from laser effects comprising:
- releasing a first nanocomponent material in the vicinity of the target, wherein a first transmitted radiation of a first laser transmission device is absorbed by the first nanocomponent material, prior to reaching the target;
- wherein the first nanocomponent material is comprised of multiple first nanocomponents, wherein each first nanocomponent is less than 100 μm in diameter;
- wherein each of the multiple first nanocomponents is encapsulated in, or attached to, a first polymer matrix;
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- wherein the first polymer matrix is selected from the group consisting of polystyrene and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.