Proceedings of the International Symposium on Nonlinear Optical Polymers forSoldier Survivability (1st), Held in Natick, Massachusetts on June 13-14, 1989

摘要

This report incorporates 13 abstracts and 9 papers presented at the FirstInternational Symposium on Nonlinear Optical Polymers, held 13-14 June 1989 at the U.S. Army Natick RD and E Center, Natick MA. The mission of the U.S. Army Natick Research Development and Engineering Center is to provide personal protection for the soldier against battlefield threats or those encountered in training. Recently a new threat has developed through the use of low power lasers in rangefinders and target designators and potential tunable weapons systems. Coherent radiation from these devices is capable of inflicting severe damage to the retina of the eye. One mode of protecting against such threats involves the development of nonlinear optical polymers which permit the transmission of visible light at ambient intensities but will reversibly block visible and near infrared radiation at intensities harmful to the eye.