Development Status of U .S Navy Shipboard Laser Weapon
LIAO Longwen
FENG Jinling
ZHANG Xiabin
Abstract：The characteristics and performance of shipboard laser weapons are discussed, with focus on three types of lasers being developed by the U. S. Navy and Department of Defense:fiber solid‐state lasers, slab solid‐state lasers and free electron lasers. The challenges encountered during the development of shipboard laser weapons are analyzed, the overall con‐cept of the future development of the U. S. Navy is described, and the prospects of shipboard laser weapons are predicted.
Keywords：shipboard laser weaponfiber solid-state laserslab solid-state laserfree electron laser
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 9-13 )