Optical equipment
Optical equipment in addition to the space camera system, the other no matter when the development of the time or the technical performance of the foreign counterparts than the poor, the mainland around the development of high and low tech optic The military instruments developed in different parts of the mainland can be said to be counted, and there is no lack of high-quality products among them. It was only the political turmoil at that time, coupled with too many development projects, insufficient funds, and ineffective coordination of strategic policies and guidelines, that slowed down the development of China's military optical equipment in the mid-1960s, but there were still occasional masterpieces, including more than 10 types of active infrared observation scopes equipped to the Army in the 1970s, although this type of equipment had already begun to be replaced by first-generation microluminescent night-vision devices. China's current night-vision technology is still more than 10 years behind the powers, but the pace of development has accelerated in the past 10 years. The development and application of laser components in 1960, the world's first ruby laser was born in the United States, the following year, the Changguang Institute developed a more advanced in the structure of similar products, there were a number of units at the same time to carry out this work. Because of the breakthrough results, the promotion of laser articles to make it more attention, China's top management in the measurement of domestic and foreign technological progress was greatly encouraged, determined to vigorously develop laser equipment. 1965 Southwest Institute of Technology and Physics to make aluminum garnet (Nd: YAG) laser crystals, the next year to make YAG lasers, in 1972, the high repetition frequency tuning QYAG laser was successfully developed. Semiconductor lasers for military fiber optic communications also began to be developed in the mid-1960s, and within 20 years, China developed C02 lasers, argon ion lasers, ring lasers, frequency stabilized lasers, far-infrared lasers, etc., and in the mid-1970s, mass production began to be used for army weapons ranging, ballistic measurements, satellite ranging, atmospheric laser communications, fiber optic communication, naval weapons ranging, land and air force weapons guidance and other aspects of statistics. Air Force weapon guidance and other aspects of the unity. For example, in 1974, the Beijing Institute of Technology and other units began to explore the laser semi-active guidance technology, made in 1977 prototype, the Air Force has been equipped with several laser-guided bombs, mainly used for strong 5 attack aircraft. The laser-guided anti-tank missile program was formulated in 1983, and the first generation of this type of weapon has preliminary mass-production capability, known as the Lightning No. 1 missile, and the second generation of the same type of missile is also under development. In addition, China has also developed with foreign countries at the same time to adjust the QYGA laser, so that it is very early to realize the laser drilling of gemstone bearings, laser ranging and laser communications also to the faster development. For the use of new equipment, fiber-optic digital data sinks have been successfully developed to replace the existing 1553B data sinks, as for the optical transmission manipulation system on the warplanes have also completed the initial stage of development?
New generation of fly-limit-class ultra-short ultra-intense laser device
China's new generation of fly-limit-class ultra-short ultra-intense laser device has been successfully developed by the Shanghai Institute of Optical Machines in 1996 and passed the acceptance test, which marks China's intense laser technology has stepped on a new level. This equipment is the first mainland for ultra-short ultra-intense laser research precision devices, experts believe that its successful development for China's strong-field laser physics research provides a new technology, the current ultra-short ultra-intense laser field in the material and behavioral research, is one of the major international cutting-edge research projects. Laser weapons have a fast attack target speed, transfer fire fast (only a few limits), high efficiency and cost ratio, is bound to become the key weaponry of the information warfare era, in the Falklands War and the Gulf War has been the initial operational verification. However, the mature laser weapon currently in use is still a low-power blinding laser weapon. Although it has been classified as an inhumane weapon and has been boycotted, it seems that all the major powers are still in violation of the law, and are secretly developing this kind of weapon with the mentality of "fearing no evil but fearing no evil", with the United States being the most blatant in its behavior. China was prepared for this. In 1995, at the IDEX95, Beifang Industry exhibited the ZM-187 handheld laser jamming machine made in the early 1990s, which could injure the eyes of the enemy or stun them, and could seriously damage the enemy aiming at or shooting at them with optoelectronic instruments. The ZM-87 has an effective range of 3 kilometers, which can be increased to 5 kilometers with the addition of an amplifier.
China to make more progress in powerful laser weapons
As high- and low-power laser weapons become more prevalent on the battlefield in the future, and because of China's long history and strong technological base in powerful laser technology, its development will accelerate. Certain technologies can seek cooperation with another laser powerhouse, Russia, to add wings. This time the United States for the first time to satellite as the object of the strong laser protection test, will be for the Shanghai Institute of Optical Machinery and other units to play a strong needle, Beijing, Shanghai has started according to the demand for tactical air defense and shipboard laser gun advanced engineering development stage research. China will make more progress in the field of strong laser weapons after 2000 and have the initial capacity for mass production, by which time China may have the ability to threaten the U.S. "goddess of dawn" ultra-high-speed strategic reconnaissance planes operating near the mainland.
Important role of laser weapons
Laser weapons are a kind of directed-energy weapons, which utilize powerful directionally emitted laser beams to directly destroy or disable targets. It is the use of high-brightness strong laser beam carries a huge energy to destroy or kill enemy aircraft, missiles, satellites and personnel and other targets of high-tech new concept weapons. Strong laser weapons have other weapons incomparable advantages, strong laser weapons with fast speed, high precision, long intercept distance, rapid fire transfer, not subject to external electromagnetic interference, strong sustained combat power and other advantages. Because of this now, the United States, Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Israel and many other Western countries are actively developing strong laser weapons. Laser weapons after more than thirty years of research, has become increasingly mature and will play an increasingly important role in the future battlefield.
Core technology
China's attack LIDAR contains the world's most cutting-edge 5 core technologies: 1, breakthroughs in laser materials research, 2, breakthroughs in the physical mechanism of laser radiation materials and imaging mapping research, 3, breakthroughs in one-time fast tracking and positioning control technology, 4, breakthroughs in high-density energy reversible conversion carrier materials, 5, breakthroughs in laser imaging technology.