At high power, laser light inside a multimode optical fiber is supposed to misbehave. The beam usually breaks into a noisy, ...

Aurelius Systems, the autonomous laser defense company behind the Archimedes counter-UAS system, today announced Aurelius ...

Discover the latest innovation from Lockheed Martin as we introduce their new mobile combat laser system, specifically ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ZEUS is expected to produce even higher levels of power later this year. The school gym-sized ZEUS is the successor to the ...

Scientists at MIT discovered that chaotic laser light can spontaneously form a highly focused beam instead of scattering—if ...

An international team of physicists has achieved a significant advance in laser science, demonstrating for the first time a ...

High-energy laser weapons are a natural fit for large, power-rich aircraft carriers—with limits. When U.S. Navy leaders declared that “the dream of a laser on every ship can become a real one” earlier ...

Two floors below ground, behind heavy double doors stamped with a logo that most students have never noticed, sits one of the most powerful lasers in the United States. I was the lead laser scientist ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam Frank is an astrophysicist exploring our place in the Cosmos. View from inside the OMEGA target chamber during a direct-drive ...