With laser ablation you fire a high-wattage laser as something to turn a very small surface layer to plasma. The expanding plasma cloud imparts an impulse onto

With laser ablation you fire a high-wattage laser as something to turn a very small surface layer to plasma. The expanding plasma cloud imparts an impulse onto the surface it is ablating, which can be used to slow down debris. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion#Ablative_laser_propulsion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion#Ablative_lase...