GTPS WORKGROUP ON OPTICAL INITIATIONOF ENERGETIC MATERIALS

摘要

Laser initiation technology has been studied and developed with the aim to beimplemented in fuzing systems designed for ignition or detonation of energeticmaterials. Techniques used at the level of optical energetic sources, means of opticaltransmission and components for laser initiation are generally innovative and arousescientific curiosity and questions among the pyrotechnics scientists. This interest led thePyrotechnics organization GTPS to create a workgroup on the subject of laser initiationof energetic materials.One of the major emerging points is that few standards regarding the conception of thefuzing systems devices, in the concerned fields, take into account the specificities of thistechnology.