ORION: Clearing near-Earth space debris using a 20-kW, 530-nm, Earth-based, repetitively pulsed laser

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-44

  Phipps, C R ^a,e   Albrecht, G ^b   Friedman, H ^b   Gavel, D ^b   George, E V ^b   Murray, J ^b   Ho, C ^a   Priedhorsky, W ^a   Michaelis, M M ^c   Reilly, J P ^d  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d NE Science and Technology Inc ^*  (United States)

^e PHOTONIC ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SPACE DEBRIS;

NEAR EARTH SPACE DEBRIS; ORION LASER SYSTEM;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0029772681     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0263034600009733     Document Type: Article

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