Access MZA’s latest books, reference resources, external press coverage, and technical publications in high-energy laser systems and wave-optics modeling.
Co-authored by MZA's Dr. Matthew Whiteley, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of aero-optical turbulence, air-buffeting jitter, and measurement techniques, while detailing flow control and adaptive optics strategies to mitigate beam degradation on airborne laser platforms.
Authored by MZA's Dr. Jason Schmidt, this book is a practical guide to FT-based analysis, imaging systems, and wave-optics simulations. Features chapter problem sets and downloadable MATLAB® code examples.
This document covers how atmospheric turbulence, scattering, and absorption degrade optical systems (like lasers and imaging), and provides the core formulas to measure and correct those distortions.
Covers how aerodynamic flow fields (aero-optics) and mechanical vibrations (aero-mechanics) degrade airborne laser projection.
Examines fundamental physical phenomena and environmental factors that limit directed energy laser system performance.
The Air Force Research Laboratory completed flight testing of the Hybrid Aero-Effect Reducing Design with Realistic Optical Components (HARDROC) beam director developed in partnership with MZA Associates.
AEDC contracted with MZA Associates Corporation through the SBIR and CRP programs to develop a system that can accurately obtain wavefront information anywhere around aircraft models in transonic and supersonic wind tunnels.
Media coverage detailing the Office of Naval Research contract awarded to MZA for compact counter-UAS laser weapon development.
An in-depth report on MZA's contract to design, integrate, and demonstrate a low-cost, compact C-UAS High Energy Laser Weapon System.
The Air Force Research Laboratory completed flight testing of the Airborne High Energy Laser (AHEL) beam director developed in partnership with MZA Associates.
Defense equipment report highlighting the US Department of Defense contract notice featuring the MZA Othela beam director.
Real-time event-based CNN providing sub-pixel spot-tracking accuracy for Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors at 800+ Hz.
Analytical method for evaluating partially coherent beams in turbulence by reformulating beam moment calculations into free-space propagation models.
Semi-analytic split-step simulation method for two-screen atmospheric turbulence, offering relaxed sampling constraints, flexible computational grids, and faster multi-frame processing.
Multi-plane sharpness metric maximization enables 3D digital holography image reconstruction through distributed-volume turbulence.
Analytical model for predicting atmospheric laser filamentation onset and channel radius, validated against simulation data and 1.5-micron field experiments.
A series of flight experiments have demonstrated a novel approach to measuring path-resolved optical turbulence strength along an 8 km air-to-ground slant path.