The United Kingdom has quietly pushed a science‑fiction idea into operational reach: a ship and land based laser that can burn through aircraft and drones with concentrated light. DragonFire, a ...

Repelling mass drone strikes is a hard and expensive task, but lasers might help.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have reportedly made a major 'breakthrough' in solid-state deep ultraviolet ...

SHENZHEN, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RoboSense, the world’s leading autonomous driving LiDAR perception solution provider, announced today that the solid-state LiDAR RS-LiDAR-M1Simple(Simple Sensor ...

Solid-state laser-based external-cavity QEPAS detection. Solid-state laser-based intra-cavity QEPAS detection. USA, September 1, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A long ...

Breakthrough could open possibilities in quantum computing, space platforms, precision manufacturing and the chip industry.

In the past two decades the development of a new generation of lasers began to change all this. The basic problem was three fold. First, figure out how to make a laser with enough power to be ...

The unique characteristics of fluoride ceramics, including phonon energy, refractive index, and nonlinear refractive index, render them highly suitable as laser matrix materials. Fluoride-based laser ...

In 2014, the US Navy installed its first prototype SSL (solid state laser) capable of countering surface craft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on a Navy ship. The Navy since then has been ...

beams (1.1:1) and operate in both a single longitudinal and single transverse mode. Available with a guaranteed output power of 5, 8, or 10 W, the systems are CE and CDRH certified.