Self-stabilizing curved metasurfaces as a sail for light-propelled spacecrafts.
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DOI: 10.1364/oe.420475
Abstract: Laser-driven spacecrafts are promising candidates for explorations to outer space. These spacecrafts should accelerate to a fraction of the speed of light upon illumination with earth-based laser systems. There are several challenges for such an… read more here.
Keywords: light; self stabilizing; metasurfaces sail; stability ... See more keywords