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Concepts for wireless energy transmission via laser
Concepts for wireless energy transmission via laserLeopold Summerer, Oisin PurcellESA - Advanced Concepts TeamKeplerlaan 1, NL-2201AZ Noordwijk, The +31-71-565-6227 The present paper intends to link several disciplines in an attempt to describe an application ofoptical systems slightly out of their mainstream applications. Back in the middle age, optics, then the science of light has been fundamental in understanding our universe and changing our perspectiveof our place in it. Optics in form of laser communication and the use quantum encryption are enteringthe field of space telecommunication and might well reveal to be the single most enabling technologyfor the introduction of secure and high bandwidth communication. In the present paper a differentapplication of optical links is discussed, using laser links not only as a communications channel butalso as a means to transfer energy without wires. Different Concepts and applications of wirelesspower transmission via laser are discussed, including terrestrial and space-based INTRODUCTIONW hile the science of light and vision has alwaysfascinated and influenced humans, the beginning ofmodern optics might be traced back to the famous Book of Optics by Ibn al-Haytham , which for thefirst time describes the theory of vision and light asa ray theory, unifying geometrical optics with philo-sophical physics.
ducted building on a heritage from the Apollo pro-gramme that used ground-based lasers with re ectors on the Moon to measure the Earth-Moon distance. Once of the observatories involved has been the Air Force Maui Optical Station (AMOS) located ontop of mount Haleaki in Hawaii, US. The SDI concepts would use ground based eximer lasers with adaptive
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