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• 18:33, 29 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page Beam-Target Interactions (Created page with "You've managed to direct the fearsome energies of your death ray beam onto your foe. Great! So now you have an intense irradiated spot on your target. What happens next? T...")
• 10:27, 29 September 2021 Tshhmon talk contribs created page Interstellar Medium Shielding (Created page with "It might surprise you that you need to shield your ship from the interstellar medium, specifically at velocities greater than 40% of c. This is a result of interstellar space...")
• 07:41, 29 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page Atmospheric Hole Burning (Created page with "We previously said that frequencies higher than ultraviolet-C - this would be vacuum ultraviolet, x-rays, and gamma rays - can’t get through air. This is mostly true, but t...")
• 07:37, 29 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page Category:Lasers (Created page with "Pages relating to laser weaponry.")
• 07:31, 29 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page Filamentation (Created page with "A peculiar effect happens in air when laser pulses reach crazy-high intensities. The pulses start to get focused inward by the effect of the light on the air itself. The las...")
• 01:40, 29 September 2021 Tshhmon talk contribs created page File:Busekbit-3.png
• 01:40, 29 September 2021 Tshhmon talk contribs uploaded File:Busekbit-3.png
• 21:09, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page Dielectric Breakdown (Created page with "An electron is happily mining its own business floating freely around in the air when suddenly a high power laser beam comes by. How rude! The electric field of the laser be...")
• 20:50, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page Stimulated Scattering (Created page with "What happens when your laser turns the air into a laser? You get stimulated scattering, and it can be a big problem for some kinds of beams. There is a physical phenomenon c...")
• 19:58, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page Two-Photon Absorption (Created page with "It takes about 6.2 eV of energy to ionize an air molecule. So any laser beam that has an energy-per-photon of 6.2 eV or more will almost immediately be absorbed by air. This...")
• 19:44, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page Adaptive Optics (Created page with "thumb|Adaptive optics correcting distorted light waves. The air is never still. Turbulence in the air makes bubbles of changing density....")
• 19:38, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page File:Adaptive optics correct.png (Diagram demonstrating the use of a deformable mirror to correct for wavefront errors. Author: Bob Tubbs (public domain))
• 19:38, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs uploaded File:Adaptive optics correct.png (Diagram demonstrating the use of a deformable mirror to correct for wavefront errors. Author: Bob Tubbs (public domain))
• 19:34, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page File:Adaptive optics gas giant.png (The improvement of resolution for imaging astronomical objects with (left) and without (right) adaptive optics. From P. Wizinowich et al., Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 112 : 315-319, 2000)
• 19:34, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs uploaded File:Adaptive optics gas giant.png (The improvement of resolution for imaging astronomical objects with (left) and without (right) adaptive optics. From P. Wizinowich et al., Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 112 : 315-319, 2000)
• 18:22, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page File:Thermal blooming in wind.png (Bending of a laser beam from an unperturbed circular shape (dashed circle) into a crescent shape due to thermal blooming in wind (Frederick Gebhardt, “Twenty-five years of thermal blooming: an overview”, Proc. SPIE 1221, Propagation of High-Energy Laser Beams Through the Earth’s Atmosphere, (1 May 1990); doi: 10.1117/12.18326).)
• 18:22, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs uploaded File:Thermal blooming in wind.png (Bending of a laser beam from an unperturbed circular shape (dashed circle) into a crescent shape due to thermal blooming in wind (Frederick Gebhardt, “Twenty-five years of thermal blooming: an overview”, Proc. SPIE 1221, Propagation of High-Energy Laser Beams Through the Earth’s Atmosphere, (1 May 1990); doi: 10.1117/12.18326).)
• 17:59, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page Thermal Blooming (Created page with "A high powered laser going through the air will cause the air to heat up. If the laser beam lasts longer than a small fraction of a second, the hot air will expand and become...")
• 13:57, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page File:Atmosphere absorption length LW IR.png (Absorption length of clean sea-level air in the long-wave infrared. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 13:57, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs uploaded File:Atmosphere absorption length LW IR.png (Absorption length of clean sea-level air in the long-wave infrared. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 13:56, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page File:Atmosphere absorption length MW IR.png (Absorption length of clean sea level air in the mid-wave infrared. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 13:56, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs uploaded File:Atmosphere absorption length MW IR.png (Absorption length of clean sea level air in the mid-wave infrared. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 13:55, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page File:Atmosphere absorption length near SW IR.png (Absorption length of clean sea-level air in the near and short-wave infrared. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 13:55, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs uploaded File:Atmosphere absorption length near SW IR.png (Absorption length of clean sea-level air in the near and short-wave infrared. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 13:54, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page File:Atmosphere absorption length vis near vis.png (Absorption length of clean sea-level air in the visible and near-visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 13:54, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs uploaded File:Atmosphere absorption length vis near vis.png (Absorption length of clean sea-level air in the visible and near-visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 11:35, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page File:Starfire optical range telescope.png (Starfire Optical Range, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. U.S. Air Force. Public domain)
• 11:35, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs uploaded File:Starfire optical range telescope.png (Starfire Optical Range, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. U.S. Air Force. Public domain)
• 08:33, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page Attenuation (Created page with "A beam of radiant energy going through the air will have some of that energy <i>absorbed</i>, or removed from the beam by making the radiation no longer exist, and some of it...")
• 07:40, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page File:Laser diffraction pattern far field thin obstruction.jpg (The diffraction pattern of a laser beam around a thin horizontal obstruction, showing the resulting vertical streak of light. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 07:40, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs uploaded File:Laser diffraction pattern far field thin obstruction.jpg (The diffraction pattern of a laser beam around a thin horizontal obstruction, showing the resulting vertical streak of light. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 07:39, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page File:Laser diffraction aperture thin obstruction.jpg (The beam profile of a laser beam after encountering a thin horizontal obstruction. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 07:39, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs uploaded File:Laser diffraction aperture thin obstruction.jpg (The beam profile of a laser beam after encountering a thin horizontal obstruction. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 07:32, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page File:Laser diffraction pattern far field uniform.jpg (Diffraction pattern of a laser beam in the far field through a uniformly illuminated aperture. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 07:32, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs uploaded File:Laser diffraction pattern far field uniform.jpg (Diffraction pattern of a laser beam in the far field through a uniformly illuminated aperture. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 07:28, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page File:Laser diffraction aperture uniform.jpg (Laser beam profile through a uniformly illuminated circular aperture. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 07:28, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs uploaded File:Laser diffraction aperture uniform.jpg (Laser beam profile through a uniformly illuminated circular aperture. Author: Luke Campbell)
• 06:54, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page File:Wave Diffraction 4Lambda Slit.png (Author: Dicklyon at English Wikipedia (public domain). Numerical simulation in matlab. Approximate diffraction pattern of a single 4-wavelength-wide slit.)
• 06:54, 28 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs uploaded File:Wave Diffraction 4Lambda Slit.png (Author: Dicklyon at English Wikipedia (public domain). Numerical simulation in matlab. Approximate diffraction pattern of a single 4-wavelength-wide slit.)
• 13:48, 27 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page File:Diffraction limited beam approximation near focus.png
• 13:48, 27 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs uploaded File:Diffraction limited beam approximation near focus.png
• 12:41, 27 September 2021 Lwcamp talk contribs created page Diffraction (Diffraction is a fundamental physical phenomena that makes light spread out, even if it is initially going in a straight line.)
• 04:57, 27 September 2021 Sevoris talk contribs created page User:Sevoris (Created page with " == About me == Hey, my name is Sevoris. I'm active on the ToughSF discord under the same user tag. My studied area of expertise is computer science; my main areas of int...")
• 15:56, 26 September 2021 User account Lwcamp talk contribs was created by Geometrian talk contribs and password was sent by email
• 10:14, 25 September 2021 Tshhmon talk contribs created page File:Sert.jpg
• 10:14, 25 September 2021 Tshhmon talk contribs uploaded File:Sert.jpg
• 10:13, 25 September 2021 Tshhmon talk contribs created page File:Next.jpg
• 10:13, 25 September 2021 Tshhmon talk contribs uploaded File:Next.jpg
• 22:16, 24 September 2021 Geometrian talk contribs created page Galactic Library:Contributing (Created page with "Welcome! Thank you for considering contributing! = Setting Up An Account = The Galactic Library is tied closely with the ToughSF Discord, which is being used to coordinat...")
• 16:59, 22 September 2021 User account Bruhm talk contribs was created automatically