In this paper, we report experimental demonstration of propulsion of 100‐weight object with only 668mJ/5ns YAG laser. This is made possible by water overlay structure and the effort to reduce the friction by putting the object on water surface or using a levitating system which we call on “air‐slider”. Furthermore, several water supply systems provided the repetitive propulsion. In addition, we found the laser‐driven micro‐turbine would provide an interesting application area in driving micro‐obstacle.


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    Title :

    Laser‐Driven Micro‐Ship and Micro‐Turbine by Water‐Powered Propulsion



    Conference:

    BEAMED ENERGY PROPULSION: First International Symposium on Beamed Energy Propulsion ; 2002 ; Huntsville, Alabama (USA)


    Published in:

    AIP Conference Proceedings ; 664 , 1 ; 535-544


    Publication date :

    2003-05-14


    Size :

    10 pages





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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