The new plasma mirror can make 1000 shots per second.

"Scientists at the LOA (Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée) in France have achieved a breakthrough by successfully driving a plasma mirror at a rate of 1,000 shots per second in the relativistic regime. This involves using a laser field with such intensity that it causes the plasma electrons to oscillate at nearly the speed of light". (ScitechDaily.com/Relativistic Plasma Mirror Driven at a Record-Shattering 1,000 Shots per Second) 

What makes these kinds of tools interesting? The new plasma mirror makes ions and photons reflected from the field that is made by using laser rays. The system can make 1000 strikes in a second by using plasma reflection. The description of this technology goes like this: 

"For the first time, scientists were successful at driving at a thousand shots per second a so-called plasma mirror in the relativistic regime, i.e. with a laser field so strong. That hurls the plasma electrons back and forth at nearly the speed of light. The feat was accomplished at the LOA (Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée) in FranceW." 

(ScitechDaily.com/Relativistic Plasma Mirror Driven at a Record-Shattering 1,000 Shots per Second) 

"Schematics of the experimental setup for SHHG (Surface High-Harmonic Generation) and electron acceleration on a kHz plasma mirror. Credit: Ultrafast Science" (ScitechDaily/Relativistic Plasma Mirror Driven at a Record-Shattering 1,000 Shots per Second)

The diagram above this paragraph introduces how reflecting plasma accelerates the incoming plasma. And that reflection causes that plasma to accelerate to a speed that is near the speed of light. This kind of system can use in pulses-plasma rockets. The speed of pulsed plasma motors depends on the speed of plasma, it drives backward. 

Or in some plans, pulsed plasma engines are shooting thin plasma strikes against the solar sail. And because the thrust of the plasma engine is lower than the power that impacting particles are making in the sail, that system pulls craft through space. But the plasma mirror makes it possible to create ion systems that are shooting plasma forward. And then reflect it backward in the rocket engines. 

In some visions, the plasma mirror will mount between graphene layers. And that thing makes it possible to shoot ions and electrons in a very rapid cycle around the craft. That thing can revolutionize aviation. 

The plasma mirror is one thing that can revolutionize rocket technology. And it can also use as a protective field against the DEW (Directed energy weapons). Laser rays can turn around by using counter radiation. But there is the possibility that the aircraft or tank is surrounded by using rotating high-energy plasma field. That plasma field should destroy the physical ammunition before they reach the layer of the aircraft or other target. 

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/Pulsed_Plasma_Rocket/

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