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Mid-Infrared Lasers Confuse Heat-Seeking Missiles

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 Sylmar CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2006
 Quintessence Photonics has announced that it has won a US Government Contract to develop and deliver high-power Mid-Infrared Lasers. The Phase III award is a follow on to previous development activity funded by the US Army which culminates in the delivery of semiconductor lasers which emit light in the Mid-Infrared wavelength regime.

Low-cost, high-power mid-infrared have a variety of defense and homeland security applications, including protection of aircraft, ships and armored vehicles from heat-seeking missiles and standoff detection of chemical weapons.

Free space optical communications and imaging on the battlefield benefit from mid-infrared sources since, unlike visible and near-infrared wavelengths, communications at mid-infrared wavelengths are relatively immune to fog, smoke and solar background impairments.

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Northrop Grumman Adds Full Motion Video Capability For US Soldiers
 Baltimore (SPX) Jun 19, 2006
 Soldiers in the field with access to the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Integration Backbone (DIB), the military's growing data- and application-sharing network, will now be able to download and view video footage, thanks to a new development from Northrop Grumman Corporation. Recently, Northrop Grumman demonstrated a new technology known as Full Motion Video (FMV) to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) at the company's facility in Baltimore. FMV can access video files compatible with DCGS architecture, a common software baseline for multi-intelligence data management.






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