Procedure, design criticality, active target imaging & target tracking, recent developments in the target tracking, atmospheric effects on laser propagation, mitigation methodologies and adaptive optics.
- Understand of high power laser & microwave beam directors, design requirements & design methodologies.
- Gain knowledge of active target imaging, coarse & fine target tracking and contemporary target tracking technologies
- Compute atmospheric effects on the laser beam performance and hence carry out conceptual design of adaptive optics
- Introduction to beam control, Beam control hardware 6
- Introduction to laser beam directors, Requirement for high power laser beam directors, Conceptual optical design & analysis of beam Directors.
- Laser beam tracking, pointing & control, Gimbals, Coarse & fine tracking.
- Active laser imaging & target tracking, Closed loop image tracking, Hardware requirement, Various tracking algorithms, multi-spectral target imaging, Multiple target engagements, rapid retargeting.
- Atmospheric propagation of Laser beams, atmospheric propagation of laser beams, Correction of atmospheric effects, Adaptive optics, Atmospheric modeling of laser propagation.
- Introduction to HPM beam control technology, major sub-assemblies.
