Scientists have captured the moment a laser "comes to life"—and what they found challenges long-held beliefs. Using a special ...

Mounted on a Stryker A1 8×8 armored vehicle, the DE M‑SHORAD system features a 50-kW class solid-state laser. This laser is ...

The high-energy laser systems that are finding military applications are based on solid-state lasers that use special crystals to convert the input electrical energy into photons.

The Iron Dome has a success rate of about 90 percent against incoming rockets. Iron Beam will attempt to close the remaining ...

A laser-equipped research platform has, for the first time, photographed airflow just millimeters above ocean waves, ...

Fusion power startup Focused Energy has signed a deal to buy two of the world’s most powerful lasers, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. The massive lasers will be installed in the startup ...

The weapon not only can use a high-energy laser to destroy targets, but is designed to disrupt intelligence-gathering efforts and reconnaissance sensors from adversaries.

Conventional accelerators use oscillating electric fields to drive charged particles to relativistic speeds. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, for example, uses radio-frequency oscillations to ...

The U.S. Military Is Building High-Energy Lasers for Next-Gen Warfare Here’s What You Need to Know: Military scientists are seeking to create compact, transportable lasers that can be integrated ...

Without requiring extreme laser intensities or suppression of parasitic pre-pulse, this approach paves the way for high-repetition-rate laser-driven ion accelerators on university lab table tops.

HELIOS, or high energy laser with integrated optical-dazzler and surveillance, is a type of directed energy weapon manufactured by Lockheed Martin and delivered to the U.S. Navy in 2022.

LONDON, Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon UK, part of RTX's (NYSE: RTX) Raytheon business, announced that its High-Energy Laser Weapon System (HELWS) completed a successful live-firing with ...