Chapter 157, Laser Weapons

"I don't think we should worry too much about it, just add a laser weapon system to the Sky City. Without any weapon system, our Sky City may be destroyed by space junk soon. The huge investment will completely It’s all in vain, and people in space are also facing huge dangers.”

Li Fu thought for a long time, and finally decided to install a laser weapon system in Sky City. This Sky City has a huge investment, and it is also the bridgehead for his Fuyun Group to enter space. Without any protection measures, it is really unsafe. .

After hearing this, everyone else nodded. Li Fu had already made up his mind. What else could anyone object to?

"I think this matter is included in the company's top secrets. Our weapon system should not be exposed as much as possible. After all, there will still be a lot of trouble. After our company can obtain the weapons manufacturing license in the future, it will be exposed again. It’s reasonable and legal.”

After thinking for a long time, Chen Bin added, there is no word yet on whether things in outer space should abide by the law, so it is better not to make it public for now. In the future, the law will gradually improve and the company will continue to develop. Maybe in the future You can obtain a license to produce and manufacture weapons.

You must know that Fuyun Group has now obtained a license to produce aerospace aircraft. In addition to being used to travel to and from space, aerospace aircraft are actually more important for combat. Once the situation changes, aerospace aircraft will soon be available. Modified into an aerospace fighter to defend China's interests.

"Well, it must be classified as top secret. The fewer people know about it, the better."

Others also nodded. Fuyun Group now holds a lot of high technology, plus various foreign policies and so on. The interests are very important, so various internal information has been classified. , many secrets are known only to a few people.

Even the company's CEO, Founder, has no right to access the secrets of science and technology. The strict system of separation of administration and scientific research is implemented. Not only are these secrets, non-scientific researchers in the company cannot enter the scientific research center at all. The purpose of all this Naturally, it is to protect the company's technology.

With the decision made, Li Fu suspended the Sky City project and led the team to prepare to develop laser weapons first.

Why lasers can be used as weapons is a question that must have confused many people. Many times when we are attracted by the amazing capabilities and dazzling appearance of something, we tend to overlook the most basic "why".

In essence, laser is a light source just like ordinary light. To understand how laser light can become an offensive sword in human hands, we must first understand how it differs from light sources in daily life.

Let's start with the all-too-familiar incandescent lamp. The light it emits is light that is scattered in all directions, like ripples on the water, with "peaks" and "troughs," or high points and low points.

Assuming our eyes had the ability to detect every ray of light from an incandescent lamp, you would see a lot of "peaks" and "troughs" passing you by. They actually have different frequencies and different colors, but when mixed together they appear white, just like the sun we see with our naked eyes.

Next, let’s think back to the “household appliance” commonly used before the 1990s—flashlights. Is the light emitted by a flashlight more concentrated than the light emitted by an unhooded incandescent lamp? Depending on the direction of the flashlight in your hand, most of the light is concentrated in the same direction. However, these relatively concentrated lights still have different frequencies, and they are also mixed with multiple colors to appear white.

Compared with the light of incandescent lamps and flashlights, laser light is much more concentrated, and its light has the same wavelength and single color. The peaks and troughs of laser light waves present a synchronized wave, which means that different light waves can run in parallel without interfering with each other.

This light is emitted in only one direction, so it can be tightly packed and remain focused even after traveling great distances. Lasers can produce beams of extremely powerful energy that are 1,000-1,000,000 times more powerful than ordinary incandescent light.

Different lasers can produce light with different wavelengths, from infrared to visible to ultraviolet. It is now known that light is actually energy in motion. Because lasers can produce very dense energy and can be transmitted over long distances with very little loss, they can project a large amount of energy to distant objects. This is why lasers can be lethal weapons, but incandescent light cannot.

However, in order for laser light to be produced, its light transmission requires an unconventional method. The English name of laser is LASER, which is laser. Its name is composed of the English initials of "radiation produced by stimulated emission of light amplification". This name has fully expressed the main process of manufacturing laser. In other words, lasers need to stimulate the release of light quanta or light particles to emit light.

To complete the above process, laser requires the following four basic elements: optical medium, a source of atoms that can release special wavelengths when stimulated. This medium can be a gas, liquid, or solid; energy source, which mobilizes and pumps these atoms. Keep it in an excited state in the laser medium; the reflective mirror, a complete mirror and a semi-silvered mirror, which can make the emitted light bounce back repeatedly in the resonant cavity of the laser medium and finally escape; the lens, a large Some laser emitters are equipped with some kind of lens to focus the beam.

"The essence of laser is actually a process of energy storage and energy release. Because of the special nature of light, what we have to do is to concentrate as much energy as possible on one point and then release it. This is the function of laser Nature."

In a laboratory of the Fuyun Group's research institute that was just put into use not long ago in Yuanyuan Town, Li Fu, who was wearing a white coat, had his back facing a huge monitor on which the working principle of a laser weapon was being demonstrated.

While explaining, Li Fu controlled his virtual machine to outline different things on the monitor. There is a lot of scientific knowledge and technology about energy weapons in the seeds of super civilization. What Li Fu just said is actually not just about laser weapons. The essence is the essence of energy weapons.

Accumulate huge amounts of energy, compress the energy, and finally release all the energy at one point. All energy weapons in the entire universe cannot escape this principle.

"At present, the most important lasers on the earth are as follows: solid lasers. The laser medium of solid lasers is a solid-state crystal, such as the famous ruby ​​laser or yttrium aluminum garnet laser, which can release light waves with a wavelength of 1.06 microns."

"Gas lasers. Gas lasers are composed of a gas or a mixture of multiple gases to form a laser medium. Such lasers include helium-neon lasers or carbon dioxide lasers, which can release light waves (infrared rays) with a wavelength of 10.6 microns."

"Excimer laser, the laser medium of the excimer laser is a mixture of various active gases such as chlorine, fluorine and various inert gases such as argon and krypton. The argon-fluorine laser can release 193 nanometer ultraviolet light waves."

"Dye laser, as the name suggests, the laser medium of the dye laser is composed of fluorescent dyes, such as rhodamine. This laser can tune light waves of different wavelengths within a certain range. The wavelength released by the rhodamine 6G dye laser is generally 570-570 650 nm.”

"The carbon dioxide laser is quite special because it is a powerful infrared laser developed by the military of various countries. It can be used to cut metal. It is also currently the most likely to be used to develop laser weapons."

On the huge display, pictures flashed one after another. These pictures explained in detail the working principles of various lasers and the laser light waves they can produce.

"In fact, there is another type called free electron laser. There are many types of these lasers, but they can essentially be divided into two types, physical laser principles and chemical laser principles."

With the seeds of a super civilization, Li Fu can do anything he does from a high position. Standing on the shoulders of giants, Li Fu often gives lectures to the scientific researchers of his company, so the scientific researchers of the company are making very rapid progress. Otherwise, I would not be able to do anything. Liang, Chen Bin and others will not be awarded the title of Chinese Academician at such a young age.

"Brother Fu, I understand. We need to develop laser weapons. In fact, no matter what method or method is used, we are actually storing energy, compressing energy, and releasing energy. As long as we can do these three steps well, laser Weapons are just very simple things.”

A researcher from Fuyun Group was listening carefully to Li Fu's lecture while thinking constantly in his mind. At this time, a very handsome man with a fair complexion like a white man stood up. His name was Bai Cai. He is an out-and-out man, but he is very handsome and fair, so everyone likes to call him "Little Baicai".

Although he has the nickname "Little Cabbage", Bai Cai is a genius. A top student who graduated from Yanhuang University, he can quickly stand out in a graduate school full of talents. Following Li Fu, he has grown very fast. Now he is Already one of the core personnel in the company's research institute.

"Xiao Baicai is right. We only need to grasp the essence of laser weapons and find ways to work hard in the three directions of energy storage, energy compression and energy release. Laser weapons cannot actually hinder us at all."

Li Fu nodded. The core of energy weapons is actually that simple. The key is to what extent it can be achieved. It is very simple for an advanced civilization to destroy the planet with one energy weapon.

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