For some years Rheinmetall Waffe Munition has successfully developed, realised and tested a variety of versatile high
energy laser (HEL) weapon systems for air- and ground-defence scenarios like C-RAM, UXO clearing. By employing
beam superimposition technology and a modular laser weapon concept, the total optical power has been successively
increased. Stationary weapon platforms and now military mobile vehicles were equipped with high energy laser
effectors. Our contribution summarises the most recent development stages of Rheinmetalls high energy laser weapon
program. We present three different vehicle based HEL demonstrators: the 5 kW class Mobile HEL Effector Track V
integrated in an M113 tank, the 20 kW class Mobile HEL Effector Wheel XX integrated in a multirole armoured vehicle
GTK Boxer 8x8 and the 50 kW class Mobile HEL Effector Container L integrated in a reinforced container carried by an
8x8 truck. As a highlight, a stationary 30 kW Laser Weapon Demonstrator shows the capability to defeat saturated
attacks of RAM targets and unmanned aerial vehicles. 2013 all HEL demonstrators were tested in a firing campaign at
the Rheinmetall testing centre in Switzerland. Major results of these tests are presented.
We report on the functionalization of silicon oxide nanostructures using luminescent dye molecules and the
characterization of these systems by optical microscopy. The nanostructures are prepared by local anodic oxidation
(LAO) of a dodecyl-terminated silicon substrate using an atomic force microscope (AFM). The silicon oxide
nanostructures are negatively charged and the cationic dye rhodamine 6G could be successively bound to the structures
by electrostatic interactions. A quenching of luminescence due to the interaction of the excited states with the silicon was
found. The luminescence signal is attributed to monomeric Rh6G molecules with a slight blue shift of the emission due
to the changed chemical environment.
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