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Textron Defense Systems has been
a pioneer and technology leader in high power
laser research and development for nearly a half-century.
The work that began during the sixties, seventies
and eighties at the former Avco Everett Research
Laboratory focused on weapon-class gas laser development
and demonstrated many well-known landmark laser
devices. During the nineties and ongoing today,
we continue to build on that heritage by focusing
on the development of breakthrough solid-state
laser concepts to provide the warfighter with
compact, affordable, and rugged Directed Energy
Weapon (DEW) systems capable of withstanding the
most severe operational and environmental battlefield
conditions.
That breakthrough is evident
in a concept known as ThinZag® -- a technology
developed by Textron Defense Systems that led
to a contact award by the Department of Defense
under the Joint High Powered Solid State Laser
(J-HPSSL) program.
While the military currently
uses lasers to guide missiles in combat an to
defend aircraft from shoulder launched missiles,
high energy lasers themselves will be used as
weapons of the future – precision strike
weapons that limit collateral damage.
Textron Defense Systems is recognized
in the laser industry as the champion for large-scale
single module scaling by using ceramic laser gain
material, enabling fieldable system architectures
that are simpler and more compact.
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