Directly Solar-Pumped Iodine Laser for Beamed Power Transmission in Space
929438
08/03/1992
- Event
- Content
- A new approach for development of a 50-kW directly solar-pumped iodine laser (DSPIL) system as a space-based power station was made using a confocal unstable resonator (CUR). The CUR-based DSPIL has advantages, such as performance enhancement, reduction of total mass, and simplicity which alleviates the complexities inherent in the previous system, master oscillator/power amplifier (MOPA) configurations. In this design, a single CUR-based DSPIL with 50-kW output power was defined and compared to the MOPA-based DSPIL. Integration of multiple modules for power requirements more than 50-kW is physically and structurally a sound approach as compared to building a single large system. An integrated system of multiple modules can respond to various mission power requirements by combining and aiming the coherent beams at the user's receiver.
- Pages
- 7
- Citation
- Choi, S., Meador, W., and Lee, J., "Directly Solar-Pumped Iodine Laser for Beamed Power Transmission in Space," SAE Technical Paper 929438, 1992, https://doi.org/10.4271/929438.