Laser-driven vehicles-from inner-space to outer-space

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4760, Issue II, 2002, Pages 867-878

  Yabe, Takashi ^a   Phipps, Claude ^b   Aoki, Keiichi ^a   Yamaguchi, Masashi ^a   Ogata, Youichi ^a   Shiho, Makoto ^c   Inoue, Gen ^d   Onda, Masahiko ^e   Horioka, Kazuhiko ^a   Kajiwara, Itsuro ^a   Yoshida, Kunio ^f  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b PHOTONIC ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^f OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airplane; Human body; Laser Propulsion; Micro ship; Robot; X ray laser

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; LASER PULSES; ROBOTICS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; X RAY OPTICS;

LASER-DRIVEN VEHICLES;

LASER ABLATION;

EID: 18744368100     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.482041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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