NAOMI/SELENE site design

Arthur Q. Hislop; John L. Malik; David Richter; Harold E. Bennett

doi:10.1117/12.208215

26 April 1995 NAOMI/SELENE site design

Arthur Q. Hislop, John L. Malik, David Richter, Harold E. Bennett

Proceedings Volume 2376, Laser Power Beaming II; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.208215
Event: Photonics West '95, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The Birchum Mesa SELENE (Space Laser Energy) facility will be dual use facility as it provides for progressive development of high power Free Electron Lasers (FEL) and commercial laser beam power transfer to space-borne vehicles. The facility will be comprised of SELENE mainsite containing two laser system bays and supporting facilities with transport tunnels coupling to the Beam Transfer Optical System (BTOS) which is the active optical array space beam director with its supporting facility. The first generation commercial grade laser will operate at 100 kW of quasi-CW laser power with a planned growth to 10 MW of output power. The BTOS beam director will direct a focus compensated laser power beam to provide power service to space vehicles within a +/- 50 degree (half angle from zenith) tracking cone service field. An underground hardened site is proposed for this facility to mitigate any potentially hazardous effects from operation of a very high energy CW electron beam laser, to protect the facility from inadvertent weapons splashdown during range Test and Evaluation operations, and to create minimum environmental impact upon historical and ecological elements of the range.

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Arthur Q. Hislop, John L. Malik, David Richter, and Harold E. Bennett "NAOMI/SELENE site design", Proc. SPIE 2376, Laser Power Beaming II, (26 April 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.208215

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