A high power 1kW pulsed transversely excited atmospheric CO2 laser that has been developed for the paint stripping of missiles was used to test paint stripping on several metallic and composite aircraft panels to determine the rate at which this laser could remove paint from aircraft
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Prinsloo, FJ, Van Heerden, SP, Ronander, E and Botha, LR. 2007. Efficient TEA CO2 laser based coating removal system. SPIE (XVI International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers and High-Power Lasers), Gmunden, Austria, September, pp 8.
Prinsloo, F., Van Heerden, S., Ronander, E., & Botha, L. (2007). Efficient TEA CO2 laser based coating removal system. SPIE - the International Society for Optical Engineering. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3276
Prinsloo, FJ, SP Van Heerden, E Ronander, and LR Botha. "Efficient TEA CO2 laser based coating removal system." (2007): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3276
Prinsloo F, Van Heerden S, Ronander E, Botha L, Efficient TEA CO2 laser based coating removal system; SPIE - the International Society for Optical Engineering; 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3276 .
