Diode laser-driven microthrusters: A new departure for micropropulsion

AIAA Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 310-318

  Phipps, Claude ^a   Luke, James ^a  

^a PHOTONIC ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER ABLATION; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PLASMA JETS; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYIMIDES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; SATELLITES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

MICROPROPULSION; MICROSATELLITE; MICROTHRUSTER; NANOSATELLITE; THRUST TO POWER RATIO;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EID: 0036471796     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.1647     Document Type: Article

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