Laser Propulsion in Space
Fundamentals, Technology, and Future Missions
- 1st Edition - June 1, 2024
- Editor: Claude Phipps
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 9 0 3 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 9 0 2 - 2
Laser Propulsion in Space: Fundamentals, Technology, and Future Missions takes readers on a comprehensive journey from a theoretical overview of the fundamentals of laser ablatio… Read more
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Request a sales quoteLaser Propulsion in Space: Fundamentals, Technology, and Future Missions takes readers on a comprehensive journey from a theoretical overview of the fundamentals of laser ablation to a review of current projects involving high-power CW fiber lasers and their ongoing and potential applications. Written by experts in the field, the mathematically sound excursus also features graphics depicting the equations’ results and case studies with worked-out examples, making this book an invaluable reference source for students, researchers, and professional engineers in a number of complementary fields.
- Covers state-of-the-art methods for LOE debris removal that has become a very critical part of commercial and scientific space management
- Includes opinion sections explaining why we as a technical society should care about each chapter’s topic and the considerably good outcomes that can be achieved with the high-intensity pulsed laser radiation technique
- Accompanied by a companion website with video clips and other ancillary materials to support understanding
Masters and PhD students as well as post-doc researchers in advanced programs or highly specialized qualification courses related to aerospace engineering, aerospace and aviation technology, aerospace traffic management, space and planetary science, optics and lasers, optical communications engineering, physics, and astronomy.
1 Basic theory of laser propulsion
2 Breakthrough Starshot program overview
3 Starshot system model
4 Space situational awareness: the potential role of lasers in long-term sustainability of space operations
5 State of the art in high-power lasers
6 High-power laser engines
7 Large scale directed energy
8 The ways to improve momentum and kinetic efficiency of laser propulsion
9 Laser-driven, In-Tube Accelerator (LITA)
10 Fly by light – demos & prizes
11 The dual-use dilemma and high-energy systems in space
2 Breakthrough Starshot program overview
3 Starshot system model
4 Space situational awareness: the potential role of lasers in long-term sustainability of space operations
5 State of the art in high-power lasers
6 High-power laser engines
7 Large scale directed energy
8 The ways to improve momentum and kinetic efficiency of laser propulsion
9 Laser-driven, In-Tube Accelerator (LITA)
10 Fly by light – demos & prizes
11 The dual-use dilemma and high-energy systems in space
- No. of pages: 280
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 1, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443159039
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Claude Phipps
Claude Phipps earned B.S./M.S. degrees at MIT, and a Ph.D. at Stanford in 1972, for the first laser-plasma interaction experiment. At Los Alamos from 1992 to 1995, he facilitated peaceful applications of lab technology as Associate Director of the Alliance for Photonic Technology, was project leader for the laser effects program, and developed a general theory for predicting pulsed laser pressure on surfaces in vacuum. He formed Photonic Associates in 1995 to develop laser space propulsion. He invented the ORION and L’ADROIT concepts for laser space debris re-entry and collaborated with CNES to develop the Just-in-time Collision Avoidance principle. He has authored 145 scientific journal publications in laser applications and materials interactions and 158 conference presentations. He chaired the ‘High Power Laser Ablation’ conferences in Santa Fe from 1998 to 2022. He is author or contributor to three books on laser interaction, plus a popular science book titled No Wonder you Wonder (Springer, 2016).
Affiliations and expertise
Managing Partner, Photonic Associates, LLC, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.