Countermeasure system for laser radiation

Claim 1

An effective countermeasure system against laser beam target designators, comprising: a. an aerosol resonance absorption material having laser energy absorbing and attenuating properties; b. means for deploying and interposing said aerosol material into the atmosphere in a path between the source of said laser energy and a target and between reflected laser energy from a target and a laser energy seeking guidance device; c. said aerosol material, when deployed and interposed in the path of laser energy, significantly reducing the laser energy by absorption and attenuation of the laser beam, said laser energy being absorbed by the aerosol material with subsequent redistribution of the energy into any of the vibrational and rotational states and preventing the instantaneous re-emission of the original optical energy of the laser; d. said aerosol material also reducing the intensity of any reflected incident energy from the target as a result of a second attenuation as any such reflected energy attempts to pass a second time through an absorbing aerosol medium; e. said aerosol material being non-toxic and providing no visible trace thereof when dispersed into the atmosphere in the paths of laser radiation.