Coherent, one of the oldest laser companies, is celebrating its 40th birthday this year. (The name comes from the character of laser light, which is said to be coherent, or synchronized.) While the ...

A production agreement potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars could move Army lasers beyond years of ...

An advance from Monash University could pave the way for faster, smaller, and more energy-efficient lasers and other light-based technologies. Engineers have developed a new type of perovskite ...

To make a femtosecond laser using a glass substrate, the scientists start with a sheet of glass. "We want to make stable lasers, so we use glass because it has a lower thermal expansion than ...

There has been huge progress on laser pushed sails. Laser pushed sails appear to be a path to sending probes up to 20% of the speed of light when we can make 1 gram sails that are one to two meters on ...

The U.S. Navy has identified laser weapons as an urgent capability need, and after many years of development, it is moving rapidly to deploy advanced laser capabilities in the near term to the fleet.

Attalon’s new connector lets troops swap out damaged laser amplifiers in minutes, solving a mundane maintenance problem that has kept high-energy weapons from being deployed at scale. This article is ...