More on the Mirror

Written by Tom Nugent on Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Here’s Kim Hicks, the first person to “drive” our vehicle when it was powered solely by laser, looking via our big mirror at the vehicle with some PV cells hanging off it:

The reflected image has a yellow tinge for a reason. That’s the same mirror as in my last post, except now you get to see the coated side. The coating reflects our (near-IR) laser beam very nicely, but does not reflect visible light evenly, hence the color cast.

Sorry for the delay in posting lately – we’ve all been (unsurprisingly) very busy with testing and development.