High power supersonic chemical oxygen iodine laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3343, Issue , 1998, Pages 119-126

  Bohn, Willy L ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical oxygen iodine laser; High power; Magnetic Q switching; Repetitively pulsed operation; Space debris removal; Supersonic flow

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL LASERS; DC GENERATORS; EARTH (PLANET); INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; IODINE; LASER ABLATION; OXYGEN; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; Q SWITCHING; SPACE DEBRIS; SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; SUPERSONIC FLOW;

CHEMICAL OXYGEN IODINE LASER; HIGH POWER; MAGNETIC Q-SWITCHING; REPETITIVELY PULSED OPERATION; SPACE DEBRIS REMOVAL;

LASER CHEMISTRY;

EID: 0008653803     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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