Agile Laser Protection for Combat Vehicle Surveillance Vision Device

The ultimate goal of the proposed program is to commercialize an affordable system that provides combat vehicle personnel with a 360 degree horizontal field of view of the outside world, while providing both ballistic protection and an eye protection against multi-wave and frequency agile lasers. The proposed system surrounds the user with a ring of viewing screens. Each screen is the output end of a coherent fiber optic imaging taper which is protected by a non-linear optical limiting element. The objective of the Phase I research is to develop a design for a deployable imaging module. The design will be based upon experimental evaluation of a brassboard prototype module which will subsequently, in Phase II, be used as a test-bed for evaluation of new optical limiting materials,