China is building a mega-laser that's so powerful it could literally tear space apart. Physicists in Shanghai are constructing what they call a 'Station of Extreme Light', which could be operational ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A powerful enough laser beam could blind spy satellites. MuthuKutty/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA Russia is building a new ground-based ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: There are rumors the Russians are restarting their laser tank program. Near the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union began experimenting with the idea of fielding a ...

The U.S. Army is issuing the call to develop an ultrashort pulse laser. The laser is designed to unleash “enormous power” in a fraction of the time a regular laser weapon lasts. The weapon should have ...

Within a year or two, the U.S. military could field a portable, laser backpack device that will provide a three-dimensional (3-D) map of buildings. The reconnoitering pack could be used by ...

nLIGHT LASR builds the high-power laser building blocks that are increasingly central to modern defense systems. The company’s position spans directed energy lasers and optical sensing, alongside a ...

As a society, we’ve largely come together to agree that laser pointers are mostly useless. They’re now the preserve of university lecturers and those destined to wind up in a jail cell for harassing ...

Even the smallest of deformations in structures such as buildings or bridges can lead to cracks, so the sooner that they're noticed, the better. A new laser-based system is designed to do just that, ...

A test exposure on cyanotype paper shows off the prototype’s resolution, around 100 microns. Typically, when it comes to scanning a laser, it’s done with galvos or a rotating mirror assembly. However, ...