Timeline for If you were to fire a laser or maser into space, how much of its energy would be lost to the atmosphere?
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| May 26, 2020 at 2:53 | comment | added | Ethan | Also how does the laser's attenuation relate to its energy loss over distance? | |
| May 18, 2020 at 2:11 | comment | added | Ethan | Lets say for example that we were placing the masers on Mauna Kea a hotspot for astronomy, which you probably know a lot about, I don't know what the humidity measurements listed here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2007GL031330 mean in terms of the water vapour content, but how would they affect a proposed maser? And can we pack a higher energy density into a certain square footage with modern lasers or masers? | |
| May 17, 2020 at 10:06 | history | answered | ProfRob | CC BY-SA 4.0 |