{"id":554730,"date":"2026-03-23T06:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554730\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T06:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:07:13","slug":"optics-photonics-news-how-usaf-funding-shaped-laser-atmosphere-modeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554730\/","title":{"rendered":"Optics &#038; Photonics News &#8211; How USAF Funding Shaped Laser\u2013Atmosphere Modeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/202604-p42-doran-img01.jpg\"\/>Conceptual illustration of atmospheric turbulence. [A. Efetova \/ Getty Images]<\/p>\n<p>For over a decade, US federal research laboratories have funded and carried out research on ultrashort pulse lasers (USPLs). This article explains how two decades of targeted, sustained funding by the Department of the Air Force\u2019s basic science funding arm (the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR) led to the development of a breakthrough software package that enables precision nonlinear modeling of laser\u2013atmosphere interactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conceptual illustration of atmospheric turbulence. [A. Efetova \/ Getty Images] For over a decade, US federal research laboratories&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-554730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}