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Space propulsion[edit]

There have been proposals to use solar-pumped lasers for spacecraft beam-powered propulsion.

Solar power satellite[edit]

There have been proposals to use solar-pumped lasers for space-based solar power.

Current research[edit]

A proposal to use the solar furnace of Uzbekistan to power a solar-pumped Nd:YAG laser would have been the world's largest system of its kind, at up to 1MW of solar input power.^[8] However, current research efforts are focused on combining the output from several smaller concentrators,^[9] an approach that is much more achievable.^[10]