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Military Laser Gets Ready for Industry

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Michael D. Wheeler

The chemical oxygen-iodine laser technology that is the basis of the US Air Force's Airborne Laser aircraft could soon be harnessed for such commercial applications as dismantling and decommissioning nuclear power plants, capital shipbuilding and repair, and even drilling oil wells. First demonstrated in the 1970s, this technology involves mixing chemicals such as potassium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide in liquid form with chlorine gas to create excited oxygen. A converging/diverging nozzle and a buffer gas bring this primary flow to supersonic velocities, and a series of chemical...Read full article

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    Published: December 1999
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