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How to Ride a Laser Beam

How to Ride a Laser Beam

This is a talk I gave at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics for the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) Luncheon. A video of the talk is available here: https://youtu.be/A229uFsQ73g?t=50m55s

Zac Manchester

January 26, 2017
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  1. ! Beam Sail " 3 Sail  Dynamics F = Z

    S 2 P( x ) ˆ b · ˆ n ( x ) c ˆ n ( x ) dS ⌧ = Z S 2 P( x ) ˆ b · ˆ n ( x ) c r ( x ) ⇥ ˆ n ( x ) dS m¨ x = F I ˙ ! + ! ⇥ I! = ⌧
  2. ! " ≈ −%& ! 4 “Beam  Riding”  Stability Re

    ⇢ eig ✓ @f? @ x x ⇤ ◆ < 0 ˙ x = f?( x ⇤) = 0