Methodology of growing gigantic sapphire for GSLW project

Artoush A. Abgaryan; Gomidas Hartounian

doi:10.1117/12.611445

22 August 2005 Methodology of growing gigantic sapphire for GSLW project

Proceedings Volume 5871, Optical Technologies for Arming, Safing, Fuzing, and Firing; 58710K (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.611445
Event: Optics and Photonics 2005, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In our present world the Crystal Growth Technology does not have the necessary and sufficient conditions to manufacture large sizes; especially in the Sapphire Crystal world. We have a theoretical and methodological development for growing gigantic Sapphire Crystal Lenses. Our gigantic Sapphire Crystal Lenses have a unique optical characteristic which will be used in the Global System of Laser Weapons (GSLW); hence solving one of the crucial problems in the Relay Mirror System; where it captures the Laser beam from the earth surface, cleaning the beam in the Satellite and redirecting the laser energy to the precise desired target. Developed and solution for the temperature and heat-elasticity fields in growth systems are considered theoretical, in order to assess their effects on the optical symmetry of the growing crystal. The process is modeled using three-dimensional curvilinear coordinates to describe a closed, low-strain heat-elasticity system, with allowance made for the temperature variations of the thermal properties of the multilayer growth system, and nonlinear and unsteady-state process with arbitrary boundary conditions. The results presented as plots of the strain, stress, displacement, and temperature fields; demonstrate the potential of the method for designing new growth units and improving the existing ones and suggesting that crystals, in general, without frustration of optical symmetry can, in principle, be grown. In order to solve generalized problem for large optics. It is required to have super and correct mathematical computing calculations, and using basic fundamental laws of nature regarding optical symmetry in the crystal, and discovering the radical "new wave method" for crystal growth technology.

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Artoush A. Abgaryan and Gomidas Hartounian "Methodology of growing gigantic sapphire for GSLW project", Proc. SPIE 5871, Optical Technologies for Arming, Safing, Fuzing, and Firing, 58710K (22 August 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.611445

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Crystals

Sapphire

Crystal optics

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