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, ...

A full laser weapon system combines a power supply with a beam of directed light energy, sensors for targeting and tracking, and likely (for ground use) a vehicle to move the whole component around.

The Navy's High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with Surveillance system isn't about shooting targets on the shore from the sea.

The global high energy lasers market has been witnessing steady growth, fueled by increasing investments in research and development, rising defense budgets in key regions, and growing adoption of ...

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 ...