Safe delivery of optical power from space

Optics Express

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 537-546

  Smith, Matthew H ^a   Fork, Richard L ^b   Cole, Spencer T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; ORBITS; SPACE RESEARCH;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; GEOSTATIONARY ORBITS; OPTICAL POWER; SUNLIGHT;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0003369461     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.8.000537     Document Type: Article

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