{"id":192966,"date":"2009-01-31T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/31\/alkali-laser\/"},"modified":"2009-01-31T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T12:43:00","slug":"alkali-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/31\/alkali-laser\/","title":{"rendered":"Alkali Laser?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like General Atomics has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-01-19&amp;section=Industry+Outlook&amp;headline=Aerospace+intelligence&amp;rssid=123456789\">snagged a $667,000 contract to develop a high power alkali laser<\/a>. (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>As I noted last week, they are already working with the USAF on solid state lasers (<a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/solid-state-laser-programs-advance-to.html\">HELLADS<\/a>), but this is a different technology, a &#8220;diode-pumped alkali-vapor laser&#8221; (DPAL), which may be more efficient, and would likely be easier to cool, as the alkali-vapor could just be conveyed to a heat exchanger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like General Atomics has snagged a $667,000 contract to develop a high power alkali laser. (paid subscription required) As I noted last week, they are already working with the USAF on solid state lasers (HELLADS), but this is a different technology, a &#8220;diode-pumped alkali-vapor laser&#8221; (DPAL), which may be more efficient, and would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1006,1025,1126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-technology","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}