The market demand for bright laser pointers has led to the development of readily available devices that can pose a threat
to road safety. Laser pointers can be involved in accidents caused by laser users who do not realise the dangers involved,
but laser pointers can also enable deliberate criminal activity. There are technologies available that can counter the threat
in different ways. A number of protective principles are outlined below. Some technologies built upon Liquid Crystal
Devices are described in greater detail.
Without any knowledge of what laser pointers a potential aggressor has access to, a frequency agile filter seems to be the
most promising way to avoid the most severe consequences of dazzle from laser pointers. Protective systems
incorporating suitable glasses or visors holding frequency agile filters of this kind however, are not commercially
available today.
A numerical scheme for modeling of z-scans with samples ranging from thin samples to beyond the thick sample limit was introduced in our previous work (A. Eriksson et al., J. Opt. Soc. Am. B15, pp. 810-816, 1998). The method relies on a multilayer approach, where all layers are treated as independent, and may have different linear and nonlinear optical properties. The theoretical scheme can be used for irradiance as well as fluence, dependent absorbers. It allows for an arbitrarily shaped aperture in front of the detector. Here the method is tested and compared with the results of analytical thick sample theory and previously published numerical simulations. Ways of optimizing the performance of an optical limiting device are modeled and discussed. Preliminary experimental z-scan results of both thin and thick sample chloro-aluminum phthalocyanine were analyzed.
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Optics and Photonics for Counter-Terrorism and Crime-Fighting
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