05.0002: DIRECTED ENERGY ARRAYS — AND NEMATODES IN SPACE PART II — WITH PHILIP LUBIN AND JOEL ROTHMAN (3/1/2022)
Building on the first episode of the season, University of California, Santa Barbara scientists
Philip Lubin and
Joel Rothman discuss Project Starlight, a NASA project that intends to send microscopic worms — among other creatures — into space. Lubin, the brainpower behind the directed energy facet of the project, identifies the considerable photonic advances that must be made before achieving atmospheric flight.
"All Things Photonics"
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