August 17, 2006 - Mike Couture, CEO OASYS Technology, presented a paper on “High Energy Laser Detonation – A Comparison of Four Optical Designs” in the Optical Technologies for Arming, Safing, Fusing, and Firing (OE1402). This symposium was held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA on 13-17 August, 2006.

OASYS Technology has performed design and fabrication of high-energy laser detonation devices for Los Alamos National Laboratories to demonstrate the feasibility of detonating high explosive by focusing the energy from a fiber-coupled, high energy laser onto a metallized window surface. This paper will discusses the design requirements, fabricated designs, test methods and results, and conclusions.

Mr. Couture has co-chaired numerous conferences and has been responsible for soliciting, reviewing, and authoring papers in support of the SPIE organization.