Laser Dazzling Analysis of Camera Sensors

We provide a unified framework for the evaluation of number of dazzled pixels of camera sensors for free space laser dazzling applications considering laser, beam director, sensor, camera optics and atmosphere parameters. In addition, we present a comparison of our analytical approach to experimental results, where a 1070 nm fiber laser and a CCD based sensor are utilized, for dazzling analysis based on system parameters. This framework can be applied to a variety of free space optical system configurations operating in various optical bands (e.g. UV, SWIR and MWIR) for dazzling performance analysis.