Naval Research Laboratory 1986 Review

• Other Authors: NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1986
• Subjects: Information Science; *NAVAL RESEARCH; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; SCENARIOS; SIMULATION; ANOMALIES; DENSITY; MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; QUICK REACTION; DETECTORS; OCEAN SURFACE; BIOLOGY; BATTLEFIELDS; DYNAMICS; AIRBORNE; ARRAYS; TRACKING; SODIUM; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADAR; PULSE GENERATORS; BACKSCATTERING; LASERS; HIGH ENERGY; ALUMINUM; GLASS FIBERS; RADAR REFLECTIONS; REMOTE DETECTORS; BROADBAND; SHIPBOARD; ACCESS; TRANSMITTERS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; ZIRCONIUM; LOSSES; GEOPHYSICS; ARCHITECTURE; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; FLUORIDES; BARIUM; LANTHANUM; MOLECULAR PROPERTIES; SOLID STATE ELECTRONICS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; ANTIMALARIALS; RADIATION EFFECTS; JUNCTION TRANSISTORS; SILICA GLASS; ALGORITHMS; HIGH POWER; Weddell; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA196250; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA196250

Highlights of NRL Research in 1986 include: Structures were identified for a novel class of antimalarial drugs having a new type of silver coordination; glass fibers having an optical loss of 0.9dB/km at 2.5 microns, with a potential for 0.01 dB/km, were produced from zirconium, barium, lanthanum, aluminum, and sodium fluorides as a replacement for silica glass in long-length glass communication links; a new monotonic Lagrangian gird tracking algorithm was developed to provide rapid access of computerized data on the near neighbors of any object in many-body systems ranging from battlefield scenarios to molecular dynamics simulations of biological arrays; effects of the sea-air temperature differential and wind stress on radar backscatter were determined through both airborne and sea-surface measurements; NRL's airborne geophysical sensor suite was used in the remote detection of anomalies in magnetic and gravity fields caused by the earth's crustal variations beneath the ice-covered Weddell Sea; a system was designed and tested to measure radiation effects on integrated circuits; power transistors and solid-state transmitter architectures for wideband high-power shipboard radars were developed; surface acoustic wave chemical microsensors were shown to discriminate between CW agents and begnign species; a diode-pumped nonneodymium rare-earth laser based on the 2.1-micron holmium transition was demonstrated. A high-energy density pulser was developed. Original contains color plates: All DTIC/NTIS reproductions will be in black and white.