ALLEMO - Aerospace Laboratory for Lasers, ElectroMagnetics, and Optics

Research

Directed Energy

  • RIPTIDE – Rapid Integrator for Prediction of Turbulence Influence on DE: for on-the-fly determination of DE effectiveness.
  • Local guide star development for rapid aero-optic correction.
  • BAM Range instrumentation for 500-meter DE propagation and counter-hypersonic projectile testing in controlled atmospheres (RELLIS).
  • Outdoor HEL range at RELLIS (~1.5 km).
  • Propagation testing through turbulence and weather in the 80 ft long, 2-ft diameter SAF (Subscale Atmospheric Facility) at ALLEMO.

Diagnostics for Hypersonics

  • FLEET (Femtosecond Laser Electronic Excitation Tagging)
  • NiiFTI (Nitric-oxide ionization induced Flow Tagging and Imaging)
  • FRS (Filtered Rayleigh Scattering)
  • PLIF (Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence)
  • Hybrid CARS (femtosecond/picosecond Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering)
  • E-FISH (Electric Field Induced Second Harmonic Generation)
  • FLATS (Forward Low Angle Thomson Spectroscopy)
  • SLIS (Slow Light Imaging Spectroscopy)
  • VENOM(Vibrationally-excited NO Monitoring)
  • LIF – (Laser Induced Fluorescence for hypersonics)
  • Depolarized Rayleigh Scattering
  • Two color Rayleigh/Thomson Scattering

Atmospheric Profiling

  • AREAL (Atomic Resonance Enabled Atmospheric LIDAR) and AURa (Aggie Ultraviolet Rayleigh) LIDAR Laboratory

Facilities

  • SAF – Subscale Atmospheric Facility.
  • BAM – Ballistics, AeroOptics, and Materials Range.
  • BLAM – Bench-top Ludwieg tube for Aerodynamic Measurement
  • LMITC – Laser Material Interaction Test Chamber