A sci-fi staple for decades, laser weapons are finally becoming reality in the US military, albeit with capabilities a little less dramatic than at the movies. Lightsabers -- the favored weapon of the ...

Article Summary - The UK has awarded MBDA a £316 million contract to field the DragonFire laser weapon on Royal Navy Type 45 destroyers by 2027, five years ahead of schedule. -DragonFire has already ...

TUCSON, AZ / ACCESS Newswire / March 25, 2025 / Applied Energetics, Inc. (AERG), a company engaged in the development of advanced optical technologies and pulsed laser systems, has announced that it ...

It is challenging to generate ultrashort laser pulses at high powers, but repeatedly overlapping light pulses in a crystal can efficiently amplify a weak signal. Christoph Heyl is at the German ...

Synthetic crystal can withstand hundreds of megawatts of laser power and produce far-reaching infrared beams capable of attacking satellites Chinese researchers have manufactured the world's largest ...