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How to preserve the cockpit view when laser strikes by shutting down that quadrant instantaneously and redirecting the pollluted quadrant to a CRT display

Suppose the airline cockpit window is divided into 4 quadrants where each quadrant contains an 2 dimensional array of CMOS or CCD spectrophotometers similar to Hamamatsu's world's smallest visible light spectrophotometer. If the laser pointer beam is detected to have hit a particular quadrant, then we shut down that quadrant instantaneously and redirect the pollluted quadrant of the projected area to a CRT display Could modern commercial avionics shut down that quadrant instantaneously and redirect the pollluted quadrant of the projected area to a CRT display in 85 milliseconds which is 1/3 the human reaction time. I propose to use the phase-stepping method described by Morimoto, Masaya, Fugaski, and Asai in the attached PDF "Shape Measurement by Phase-Stepping Method Using Multi-Line LEDs" to detect the quadrant where a laser pointer ray hits the cockpit window. I realize that Multi-Line LEDs generate incoherent light rather than coherent laser light but the same mathematical principles of inaccurate phase-shifting by a grating by a projector could still apply.
   What does "shut down that quadrant"  mean? Cockpit windows are made out of layers of various types of plastic and/or glass. They're naturally transparent and don't have an on/off switch to black them out. Omega Optical and LOT Quantum Design make filters of 1 or 2 nm bandwidth FWHM that would screen narrow band laser light while allowing the green light from beacons (which is relatively wide bandwidth) to pass through largely unattenuated. Shut down that quadrant means screen narrow band laser light while allowing the green light from beacons (which is relatively wide bandwidth) to pass through largely unattenuated.
      An aviation expert recently stated that the LASER travels at the speed of light and all electrical signals travel somewhat below the speed of light (and take a longer path) the reaction time could not be fast enough. Suppose we were to use a beamsplitter located at the exterior surface of the 10 centimeter  thick cockpit window to force the light to take a path twice as long as the electrical signal. Would this delay allow enough him to prevent the laser signal from reaching the pilot's eye?
    In the future , could parallel processing processors match current megaprocessors which can tune to an laser frequency in miiliseconds and achieve 20 decibels in attenuation using discrete-time finite impulse response filters with linear phase described in pages 488 to 489 of Discrete-Time Signal Processing by Alan Oppenheim and Ronald Schafer?
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@d-glitchhas the best ideas I have ever read about how to apply computational imaging and optics to protecting pilors from laser attacks.