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Office of Naval Research
Office of Naval Research
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800 N. Quincy Street22217 Los AlamosVirginia
- (703) 696-5031
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Description of Office of Naval Research
ONR's Quentin Saulter manages the FEL development effort in cooperation with the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Directed Energy and Electric Weapons Office, headed by Captain Roger McGinnis. ONR is also funding the operation and optimization of the 10 kW FEL, and has several experiments slated to begin in early fall. A laser materials damage study will be co-funded with the Office of the Secretary of Defense High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office (HEL-JTO). In another project, scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory will study laser propagation through the atmosphere, with an eye to new laser-based shipboard defense strategies. During the upgrade process, FEL staff installed new optics, more accelerating components, new power supplies in the injector and a new wiggler that enables an electron beam to produce laser light. These improvements increased the linear accelerator energy 300% (from 40 to 160 million electron volts), doubled the machine's achievable current and made it possible for the optics to take a ten-fold increase in power.
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