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The thinned array curse has consequences for [[microwave power transmission]] and [[wireless energy transfer]] concepts such as [[solar power satellite]]s; it suggests that it is not possible to make a smaller beam and hence reduce the size of a receiver (called a ''[[rectenna]]'' for microwave power beaming) by phasing together beams from many small satellites.
A short derivation of the thinned array curse, focusing on the implications for use of [[lasers]] to provide impulse for an [[interstellar probe]] (an application of [[beam-powered propulsion]]), can be found in Robert Forward's paper "Roundtrip Interstellar Travel Using Laser Pushed Lightsails."<ref name="Forward 1984 pp. 187–195">{{cite journal | last=Forward | first=Robert L. | title=Roundtrip interstellar travel using laser-pushed lightsails | journal=Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets | publisher=American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) | volume=21 | issue=2 | year=1984 | issn=0022-4650 | doi=10.2514/3.8632 | pages=187–195 | bibcode=1984JSpRo..21..187F | citeseerx=10.1.1.1079.9524 }}</ref>
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