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You could build a solar pumped laser that uses sunlight shining onto iodine to directly make very intense laser light.
by beecafe 4y ago
You could build a solar pumped laser that uses sunlight shining onto iodine to directly make very intense laser light.
- nradov 4y agoAnd how much mass would that take, to produce enough output power to damage a ground station? I don't think you've done the math...
- beecafe 4y agoGeoffrey A. Landis, "Prospects for Solar Pumped Semiconductor Lasers," Paper SPIE 2121-09, Laser Power Beaming, SPIE Proceedings Volume 2121, pp. 58-65, January 27–28, 1994
- nradov 4y agoRight so as I said, it's possible in principle but would require technology which doesn't really exist yet.