PowerLight's wireless system could keep military drones flying indefinitely, or be adapted as a directed-energy system for ...
New low-cost carrier-based laser system shows promise for defending warships against drone threats.
A new theoretical study finds shorter laser pulses achieve higher quantum efficiency for photoemission from a solid surface ...
Calculating laser power density What is a LiDAR point cloud? Wide array of applications for lasers. LiDAR (light detection and ranging) can measure the distance of an object (measuring the time for ...
Ultrafast lasers tracked plasma formation and ionization in copper with picosecond precision. Results show rapid ion growth ...
The University of Michigan’s ZEUS is now the country’s most powerful with pulses lasting just 25 quintillionths of a second. The University of Michigan’s ZEUS is now the country’s most powerful with ...
In a move that sounds like the wildest of science fiction, DARPA has announced its new Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program that plans to use lasers relayed by airborne platforms ...
An international team of physicists has achieved a significant advance in laser science, demonstrating for the first time a ...
The most powerful laser in the U.S. just fired up to full strength for its first official experiment—and it’s an absolute beast. Reading time 3 minutes The ZEUS laser, tucked away (as much as a giant ...