Review: Laser-ablation propulsion

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 609-637

  Phipps, Claude ^a   Birkan, Mitat ^b   Bohn, Willy ^c   Eckel, Hans Albert ^d   Horisawa, Hideyuki ^e   Lippert, Thomas ^f   Michaelis, Max ^g   Rezunkov, Yuri ^h   Sasoh, Akihiro ⁱ   Schall, Wolfgang ^j   Scharring, Stefan ^d   Sinko, John ^k  

^a PHOTONIC ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^h A P Aleksandrov Sci Res Technol   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j Kratos Defense and Security Solutions Inc ^*

^k Kratos Defense and Security Solutions Inc   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; LASER ABLATION; LASER BEAMS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; ORBITS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; PROPULSION;

ABLATION EFFICIENCY; ABLATION PRODUCTS; CONDENSED MATTER; CONTINUOUS WAVES; FIGURES OF MERITS; IONIZED PLASMAS; LASER INTENSITIES; LEO (LOW EARTH ORBIT);

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 77954917300     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: 15333876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.43733     Document Type: Review

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