The "F" is from the nuclear delivery vehicle limitations set in the SALT I and II Treaties. A bomber or attack aircraft would be counted for the treaty, a "fighter" is not.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090312051339AA40dOp

 

I think this thread has been derailed ?

 

I think this thread has been derailed ?

It's appropriate to end up with an "anti-thread" when you try to talk about an "anti-laser".

 

It's appropriate to end up with an "anti-thread" when you try to talk about an "anti-laser".

ho ho ho dats funny

 

Nope, I don't remember any stealth bomber being shot down. Have you got a link?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk#Combat_losses

The F-117 is primarily a ground-attack aircraft so its "F" designation is inconsistent with the DoD system, but it is an inconsistency that has been repeatedly employed by the U.S. Air Force with several of its ground attack aircraft since the late 1950s (i.e., F-105, F-111, etc.).

It's appropriate to end up with an "anti-thread" when you try to talk about an "anti-laser".

haha.
but yeah, interesting anti-laser. is it a destructive interference thing?

 

but yeah, interesting anti-laser. is it a destructive interference thing?

Read the article:

Building something which can absorb light over a wide range of wavelengths is pretty simple, said Professor Stone, but only doing so for a particular wavelength makes the anti-laser potentially useful in optical computing.

 

Read the article:

ah, well, yeah. that's why i'm asking the question as to whether it works on destructive interference from the second laser.
or is it kind of a more passive device which would work with only one laser instead of two.

 

I have disabled a laser by shining a second laser down the aperture. Both were HeNe lasers. As soon as I removed the second laser the first came back up. I was disrupting the oscillation somehow.

Interesting thing about lasers, a LASER (if you look at the acronym) is really just an amplifier. We are so used to using it for oscillators people don't put much thought into it. One of the big developments in lightwave communications is the amplifier aspect though, a signal laser light is feed though a irbium doped fiber and is amplified 30 db, it goes in at safe optical levels, and leaves at dangerous levels requiring eye protection.