Laser goddess Hou Jing
For now, China's laser weapon development has properly come to the first place in the world, and even the results given by the United States in related fields are not as good as those of the mainland. The development of China's laser weapons has benefited from the research of Hou Jing, the Chinese "laser goddess".
Hou Jing graduated from the National University of Defense Technology and is currently working as a researcher in the School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering of the National University of Defense Technology, and her main research direction is to find laser spectra. The public's impression of lasers is a beam of light with high energy, but in fact there are many types of lasers. Light is essentially a stream of photons in different frequency bands, different frequency bands can bring different light, and different light can bring different effects.
Shortly after the end of the first decade of the 21st century, Hou Jing led a team to develop two metal photonic crystal fibers, in which a high-frequency supercontinent spectral light source was refracted. Previously, the relevant technology has been in the hands of the United States, and Hou Jing's achievement has undoubtedly broken through the technological blockade of the United States for many years, so many Americans say that she is more terrifying than a nuclear bomb.
Hou Jing's research helps civilian technology
The technology studied by Hou Jing has produced great effects in both the people's livelihood and the military field, because the supercontinent spectral light source is of great significance for the study of materials science, because it can fully test the performance of a material. Any macroscopic technological breakthrough is essentially nothing more than a technological breakthrough in energy and materials. As long as there is enough energy and strong enough materials, the performance of human industrial products will continue to improve, and many products that modern people have never heard of have appeared.
Hou Jing's research helps military technology
Militarily, hou Jing's technological achievements have enabled Chinese laser weapons to burn through 5 mm thick steel plates at a distance of 1 kilometer. Although this effect is far from being put into actual combat, this is a record set by the mainland in 2017, and now we don't know how far China's laser weapons have developed, so the prospects for related fields are very broad.
In the future, "rate of fire" is equivalent to the speed of light, and laser weapons with more destructive power will inevitably become the mainstream of the battlefield. The current urgency of laser weapon research between China and the United States fully demonstrates how important related fields will be in the future. Whoever comes up with the results first in the relevant field will be one step ahead in the military.
In fact, in Hou Jing's research, the mainland already has "laser weapons" that can be put into actual combat. In the mainland's photoelectric confrontation, some of the frequency band lasers developed by Hou Jing can burn ordinary radars in a very short period of time. That is to say, the laser that Hou Jing found out has been able to "flash blind" the enemy's radar, and this technology will inevitably set off terrifying waves in the field of war.
Today, the young Hou Jing has become an authoritative figure in the field of lasers in China. China's 863 program has developed to this day, and there are already more than a dozen key projects related to Hou Jing. It can be seen that foreigners say that Hou Jing is more terrifying than a nuclear bomb.