How Advanced Laser Technology Makes "The Creator" Look Like Childs Play.
All that's missing is energy potential.
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There is no creation without destruction. The Wheel of Samsara spins on and on and on.
“You know, Neanderthal's got a bad rap. I mean, people talk about them like they were dumb, but, you know, turns out they made tools. They made clothes.
They made medicine out of plants. They even made art. Little flower necklaces to bury their dead in. The only problem was there was a species that was smarter and meaner than them.
Us.
And we raped and murdered them out of existence”.
Gareth Edwards’ magnum opus of over a decade of writing has gained less than favorable reviews from moviegoers this past year. For the average sci-fi fan, the average review might sound something like “visually striking, storyline is lacking”.
We have been too spoiled and desensitized with watered-down science fiction thanks to whatever Disney thinks it’s doing with Lucasfilm. The amount of sci-fi epics these past few decades have been sparse. Interstellar, Cloverfield Paradox, the Endless may be some of the more mind-bending films when not inundated with Jordan Peele’s elementary take on science fiction in Up or the Twilight Zone remake.
While The Creator may lack in surface plot, its literary essence takes a bit to be contemplated. If you’re at all familiar with Sanskrit and buddhism, you will recognize the allusions to Maya and Nirmata, however few understand the true spiritual essence Edwards attempts to relate in terms of humanity and ancient artificial intelligence.
What the Creator does do, is combine current methods of warfare in ballistic and nuclear missiles with modern forms of warfare such as zero-point energy, and multiple types of laser scanning, targeting, and firing weaponry.
We have most of the technology necessary in order to replicate the technology used the film, what we are missing is the power.
In the Creator, NOMAD, (Northern American Oribital Missile Aerospace Defense) is a 2.3 km wide, trillion-dollar anti-AI weapons system. A massive continuous blue beam is shot from low-earth orbit, with a malleable wavelength array to scan wide or narrow areas. These are used to sense and find targets, usually artificially intelligent robotics in this case, but DARPA’s TALVS and BAE Systems LDAL do far more than that. A continuous 360 degree scan w is done on late TALVS Boeing 787s that act as shielding sensors for the aircraft. Pulsed and continuous beams are used for monitoring. BAE Systems' LDAL could be compared visually to the Chinese DAQI-1 Satellite, whose grid array was seen off of the coast of Hawaii in 2022.
LDAL stands for Laser Developed Atmospheric Shield developed by BAE Systems. This is a short pulsed laser array utilizing ionization of the atmosphere (think HAARP).
"LDAL is a complex and innovative concept that copies two existing effects in nature; the reflective properties of the ionosphere and desert mirages. The ionosphere occurs at a very high altitude and is a naturally occurring layer of the Earth’s atmosphere which can be reflective to radio waves – for example it results in listeners being able to tune in to radio stations that are many thousands of miles away. The radio signals bounce off the ionosphere allowing them to travel very long distances through the air and over the Earth’s surface. The desert mirage provides the illusion of a distant lake in the hot desert. This is because the light from the blue sky is ‘bent’ or refracted by the hot air near the surface and into the vision of the person looking into the distance.
LDAL simulates both of these effects by using a high pulsed power laser system and exploiting a physics phenomena called the ‘Kerr Effect’ to temporarily ionise or heat a small region of atmosphere in a structured way. Mirrors, glass lenses, and structures like Fresnel zone plates could all be replicated using the atmosphere, allowing the physics of refraction, reflection, and diffraction to be exploited".
These are likely semiconductor lasers combined with atmospheric laser ionization due to the high pulse methods. These types of lasers are also known to utilize the "quantum well".
The use cases for this shield not only include energy diffraction defence from enemy EMP's, but also may include mass spectroscopy, LIDAR, or signal blocking and surveillance.
“Working with some of the best scientific minds in the UK, we’re able to incorporate emerging and disruptive technologies and evolve the landscape of potential military technologies in ways that, five or ten years ago, many would never have dreamed possible,” said Professor Nick Colosimo, BAE Systems’ Futurist and Technologist.
While gas and solid-state lasers are used for scanning and monitoring molecules such as CO2, topography, smoke particulates, these are usually pulsed-array lasers due to the massive power payload required for continuous discharge.
Continuous beam lasers are being built using liquid plasma and semiconductors, as well as their traditional optical/chemical laser medium. The power potential required to deploy a laser like this must be massive. The power required to keep something like this in the air may be solely solar powered, or powered through DARPA's POWER satellite-link program, but solar power isn’t giving you those lasers. Low-voltage semiconductor lasers powered by an overunity or zero-point energy device would keep all the energy needed on demand.
Before we go any further into the weeds of terminology, let us explore the main types of lasers, as many are not the same and have many different uses.
Laser Types:
There are two broad types of lasers that make up 5 categories of laser technology. These are continuous-wave lasers, which deliver a constant power over time, and pulsed lasers, which deliver all their energy in a very short pulse, but then have to wait for some time for the next pulse. They have different effects on the target material: with a pulse, the energy does not have time to spread by thermal conduction, so it can instantaneously vaporize a piece of the target if the beam is concentrated on a small enough surface. Continuous wave lasers can be used for cutting as well as sensing, as well as pulse lasers. The power output, medium, optical range, as well as wavelength utilized on the electromagnetic spectrum are all variables that create varieties of applications.
5 Laser Categories: GAS-CHEMICAL-SOLID STATE-SEMICONDUCTOR (QUANTUM)-LIQUID
Gas Laser: CO/ CO2 lasers are usually used for engraving, welding, laser cutting. Nitrogen lasers are used to measure air pollution. Xenon ion and krypton lasers are used for general "scientific research". Excimer lasers are used for semiconductor production and micro material processing.
Chemical Lasers: Also known as utilized in direct energy weapons. A chemical laser is a laser that obtains its energy from a chemical reaction. Chemical lasers can reach continuous wave output with power reaching to megawatt levels. They are used in industry for cutting and drilling as well as military weaponry.
First Airborne Laser Weapon System: YAL-1
One of the first projects came from Boeing under the designated name YAL-1. This weapon was primarily intended to destroy tactical ballistic missiles. Actually, manufacturer successfully completed high-energy version tests back in 2010; however, funding for this program was cut and the program was cancelled in December 2011, mainly due to criticism related to the practicality of this concept.
YAL-1 was carried on a Boeing 747 and could destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at their boost phase up to 300km away, with entire intercept sequence taking 8 to 12 seconds. But such distance is not enough for military purposes, especially considering the fact that each 747 could carry enough laser fuel for about 20 shots, and later had to lad for refueling.
Common examples of chemical lasers are the chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL), all gas-phase iodine laser (AGIL), and the hydrogen fluoride (HF) and deuterium fluoride (DF) lasers, all operating in the mid-infrared region. There is also a DF–CO2 laser (deuterium fluoride–carbon dioxide), which, like COIL, is a "transfer laser." The HF and DF lasers are unusual, in that there are several molecular energy transitions with sufficient energy to cross the threshold required for lasing. Since the molecules do not collide frequently enough to re-distribute the energy, several of these laser modes operate either simultaneously, or in extremely rapid succession, so that an HF or DF laser appears to operate simultaneously on several wavelengths unless a wavelength selection device is incorporated into the resonator.
Solid-State Lasers
A solid-state laser is a laser that uses a gain medium that is a solid, rather than a liquid as in dye lasers or a gas as in gas lasers. Semiconductor-based lasers are also in the solid state, but are generally considered as a separate class from solid-state lasers, called laser diodes. Solid-state lasers are being developed as optional weapons for the F-35 Lightning II, and are reaching near-operational status, as well as the introduction of Northrop Grumman's FIRESTRIKE laser weapon system. In April 2011 the United States Navy tested a high energy solid state laser. The exact range is classified, but they said it fired "miles not yards."
The U.S. Army is preparing to test a truck-mounted laser system using a 58 kW fiber laser. The scalability of the laser opens up use on everything from drones to massive ships at different levels of power. The new laser puts 40 percent of available energy into its beam, which is considered very high for solid-state lasers. Since more and more military vehicles and trucks are using advanced hybrid engine and propulsion systems that produce electricity for applications like lasers the applications are likely to proliferate in trucks, drones, ships, helicopters and planes.
The U.S. Navy's Solid State Laser—Technology Maturation Laser Weapon System Demonstrator (LWSD) is the most powerful and destructive laser to go to sea, capable of shooting down drones, rockets, and artillery shells.2 The LWSD is mounted on the amphibious ship USS Portland and has a steady, sustained laser ray and a bright halo of light around the weapon's barrel.1 The Army has awarded a contract to General Atomics to deliver a 300 kiloWatt solid state laser, also known as the Distributed Gain High Energy Laser Weapon System (DGHELWS), which is billed as a "protective tool".
Lockheed Martin has also demonstrated a 30-kilowatt electric fiber laser, the highest power ever documented while retaining beam quality and electrical efficiency. The internally funded research and development program culminated in this demonstration, which was achieved by combining many fiber lasers into a single, near-perfect quality beam of light—all while using approximately 50 percent less electricity than alternative solid-state laser technologies. The unique process, called Spectral Beam Combining, sends beams from multiple fiber laser modules, each with a unique wavelength, into a combiner that forms a single, powerful, high quality beam.
Semiconductor Lasers
A laser diode (LD, also injection laser diode or ILD or semiconductor laser or diode laser) is a semiconductor device similar to a light-emitting diode in which a diode pumped directly with electrical current can create lasing conditions at the diode's junction.[1]: 3
Driven by voltage, the doped p–n-transition allows for recombination of an electron with a hole. Due to the drop of the electron from a higher energy level to a lower one, radiation, in the form of an emitted photon is generated. This is spontaneous emission. Stimulated emission can be produced when the process is continued and further generates light with the same phase, coherence and wavelength.
The simple laser diode structure, described above, is inefficient. Such devices require so much power that they can only achieve pulsed operation without damage. Although historically important and easy to explain, such devices are not practical.
Double heterostructure lasers
In these devices, a layer of low bandgap material is sandwiched between two high bandgap layers. One commonly-used pair of materials is gallium arsenide (GaAs) with aluminium gallium arsenide (AlxGa(1-x)As). Each of the junctions between different bandgap materials is called a heterostructure, hence the name double heterostructure (DH) laser. The kind of laser diode described in the first part of the article may be referred to as a homojunction laser, for contrast with these more popular devices.
The advantage of a DH laser is that the region where free electrons and holes exist simultaneously—the active region—is confined to the thin middle layer. This means that many more of the electron-hole pairs can contribute to amplification—not so many are left out in the poorly amplifying periphery. In addition, light is reflected within the heterojunction; hence, the light is confined to the region where the amplification takes place.
Quantum well lasers
Main article: Quantum well laser
A quantum well laser is a laser diode in which the active region of the device is so narrow that quantum confinement occurs. If the middle layer is made thin enough, it acts as a quantum well. This means that the vertical variation of the electron's wavefunction, and thus a component of its energy, is quantized. The efficiency of a quantum well laser is greater than that of a bulk laser because the density of states function of electrons in the quantum well system has an abrupt edge that concentrates electrons in energy states that contribute to laser action.
Lasers containing more than one quantum well layer are known as multiple quantum well lasers. Multiple quantum wells improve the overlap of the gain region with the optical waveguide mode.
Further improvements in the laser efficiency have also been demonstrated by reducing the quantum well layer to a quantum wire or to a sea of quantum dots.
Quantum cascade lasers
Main article: Quantum cascade laser
In a quantum cascade laser, the difference between quantum well energy levels is used for the laser transition instead of the bandgap. This enables laser action at relatively long wavelengths, which can be tuned simply by altering the thickness of the layer. They are heterojunction lasers.
Interband cascade lasers
Main article: Interband cascade laser
An Interband cascade laser (ICL) is a type of laser diode that can produce coherent radiation over a large part of the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Liquid Lasers
Liquid lasers that have large cooling systems can fire continuous beams, while solid state laser beams are more intense but generally must be fired in pulses to stop them from overheating. (As long as the heat transfer requirements are met solid state lasers can run continuously.) In the past, both types of lasers were very bulky because of their need for these huge cooling systems. The only aircraft in which they could fit were the size of jumbo jets.
Liquid-crystal lasers are comparable in size to diode lasers, but provide the continuous wide spectrum tunability of dye lasers while maintaining a large coherence area. The tuning range is typically several tens of nanometers. Operation may be either in continuous wave mode or in pulsed mode.
DARPA.mil: Enemy surface-to-air threats to manned and unmanned aircraft have become increasingly sophisticated, creating a need for rapid and effective response to this growing category of threats. High power lasers can provide a solution to this challenge, as they harness the speed and power of light to counter multiple threats. Laser weapon systems provide additional capability for offensive missions as well—adding precise targeting with low probability of collateral damage. For consideration as a weapon system on today’s air assets though, these laser weapon systems must be lighter and more compact than the state-of-the-art has produced.
The goal of the HELLADS program is to develop a 150 kilowatt (kW) laser weapon system that is ten times smaller and lighter than current lasers of similar power, enabling integration onto tactical aircraft to defend against and defeat ground threats. With a weight goal of less than five kilograms per kilowatt, and volume of three cubic meters for the laser system, HELLADS seeks to enable high-energy lasers to be integrated onto tactical aircraft, significantly increasing engagement ranges compared to ground-based systems.
In May 2015, HELLADS demonstrated sufficient laser power and beam quality to advance to a series of field tests. The achievement of government acceptance for field trials marked the end of the program’s laboratory development phase and the beginning of a new and challenging set of tests against rockets, mortars, vehicles and surrogate surface-to-air missiles at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
Integration of the HELLADS laser into a ground-based laser weapons system demonstrator began in July 2015 as an effort jointly funded by DARPA and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Following the field-testing phase, the goal is to make the system available to the military Services for further refinement, testing or transition to operational use.
The Creator Weapon Comparisons
Now that our head is full of the physics utilized in this technology, we can understand a little deeper how we can expect future technology to far surpass what is seen in the film.
Laser Targeting:
When a target is marked by a designator, the beam is invisible and does not shine continuously. Instead, a series of coded laser pulses, also called PRF codes (pulse repetition frequency), are fired at the target. These signals bounce off the target into the sky, where they are detected by the seeker on the laser-guided munition, which steers itself towards the centre of the reflected signal. In order for visualized beams as seen above, one could use a gas targeting laser, or laser diodes requiring exponentially more power must be utilized.
The U.S. Air Force selected the Lockheed Martin's Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP) in 2004. It equipped multiple USAF platforms such as the F-16, F-15E, B-1, B-52, and A-10C. It also operates on multiple international fighter platforms. The U.S. Navy currently employ LITENING and ATFLIR targeting pods on a variety of strike aircraft. The Litening II is widely used by many other of the world's air forces. The United Kingdom's Royal Air Force use the Litening III system and the French use the TALIOS (Targeting Long-range Identification Optronic System), Damocles and ATLIS II.
Laser Scanning
The Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) Instrument has been in integration for the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat-2) Mission, launched in 2017. ICESat-2 is the follow on to ICESat which launched in 2003 and operated until 2009. ATLAS will measure the elevation of ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice or the "cryosphere" (as well as terrain) to provide data for assessing the earth's global climate changes. Where ICESat's instrument, the Geo-Science Laser Altimeter (GLAS) used a single beam measured with a 70 m spot on the ground and a distance between spots of 170 m, ATLAS will measure a spot size of 10 m with a spacing of 70 cm using six beams to measure terrain height changes as small as 4 mm.
The ATLAS pulsed transmission system consists of two lasers operating at 532 nm with transmitter optics for beam steering, a diffractive optical element that splits the signal into 6 separate beams, receivers for start pulse detection and a wavelength tracking system.
CHINA DAQI-1
Daqi-1 or Atmospheric Environment Monitoring Satellite is a Chinese satellite which was launched on 15 April 2022 to study the atmosphere of the Earth.[1] Its Aerosol and Carbon Detection Lidar (ACDL) instrument was thought to be the most likely cause of a green laser light display observed over Hawaii on 28 January 2023 by the Subaru Telescope, although initially thought to be from a remote-sensing altimeter satellite ICESat-2.
LOCKHEED MARTIN TALWS
"For more than 40 years, Lockheed Martin has specialized in laser weapon development and relevant technologies, ranging from lasers to beam control technology. The systems we’re developing under contract today can defeat small rockets, unmanned aerial vehicles, small attack boats, and lightweight ground vehicles.
As a core member of the industry team developing the Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) system for the U.S. Air Force, we’re developing critical components of an airborne laser pod including the high-energy laser and other subsystems that will be demonstrated ahead of a program of record in the mid-2020s.
Some critical components, such as optics that can handle high-energy laser beams, have only been built in very small quantities for prototypes. We’re investing in capital expansions to produce components like these at full production rates and at lower cost.
Lockheed Martin is firing on all fronts to be ready to produce a tactical airborne laser pod when the Air Force calls."
In order for us to fully utilize high-energy or quantum well lasers, we have already started to utilize the electromagnetic spectrum and quantum dimensions in order to generate energy required for these continuous beam lasers and technologies such as force-fields and flying vehicles.
The military has been riding a fine line of disclosing this zero-point Tesla-fashioned tech discretely for their own purposes while denying the claims technology like this exists. It would imply a potential loss of this energy monopoly, which may have either catastrophic or beautiful results.
After all, Tesla did say we "may live to see man-made horrors beyond our comprehension”.