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Army Incorporates Laser Protection For Soldiers
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The military works continually to enhance the weapons and technologies it supplies to the soldiers in the field. Many of the technology provides soldiers with tools that can provide them both offensive and defensive tactics. Information from the Army’s Laser Protection Team, which consists of the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), the US Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), and the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC), are working cooperatively to “identify and develop materials that offer the most effective protection against lasers.”
The ARL has been working for more than 20 years to provide soldiers with solutions against laser damage they may be faced with in the field. The result is the development of materials that works for soldiers on foot as well as material that can provide protection to ground vehicles to protect them against laser damage. The wavelengths and pulse widths of lasers are ever-changing and the ARL must be in continual improvement mode to keep the soldiers safe by developing protection for electronic sensors. The issue with lasers is that they can “permanently incapacitate or blind cameras that lack proper laser protection” this can make the completion of a mission difficult or impossible for the troops.
Researchers must characterize the complex molecules within lasers and balance that with the nonlinear properties and develop a material that allows for a flow of natural light but blocks harmful laser light. In addition to lasers damaging cameras and other technologies they can also injure the soldiers. Exposure to laser light can cause short term disorientation and pain or even lead to blindness.
The groups are working together to gather information on the sensors and lasers used by opposing forces and then formulating new technologies to combat their effects.
To protect against laser damage the entities must develop “advanced materials and new insight to optical systems.”
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