在下一个或下两个四分之一世纪中,激光武器技术具有对战争艺术进行彻底变革的潜力,这一点在大多数有识之士的心目中应该是无可怀疑了。最近各种电视和电影节目如《星球漫行》(其主要方面是发射致命的光子鱼雷)和《星球战争》等,已使死光的影象广为流传。在高能激光技术到来之前,这种靠强烈激光辐照来摧毁目标的想象似乎太异想 In the next or next two quarters of a century, laser weapon technology has the potential to revolutionize the art of war in the eyes of most people of insight. Recent images of television and theatricals such as “Star Trek” (whose main theme is the launch of the deadly photon torpedoes) and the “Star Wars” have made the image of the Dead widely popular. Before the advent of high-energy laser technology, the imagination of destroying a target by intense laser irradiation seemed too fancy