Taking down Iran's cheap drones is a drain on the U.S. weapons stockpile. Emerging laser technology may be a cost-effective ...

Police have launched an urgent appeal for witnesses following Friday’s dangerous laser strike in the cinematic landscape of ...

High-energy lasers can burn drones in the sky like a blowtorch. But they can be stymied by weather, and making them at scale will be a challenge.

Researchers from MIT, Cambridge, Mass., and elsewhere have developed what they call “a new class of photonic devices that ...

MIT researchers built a photonic chip that launches thousands of laser beams into free space, enabling scalable quantum control.

A Russian FPV drone was destroyed after an encounter with a weird new Ukrainian weapon. Is this a high-powered laser or something else entirely?

Scintil Photonics, a French startup backed by Nvidia, on Wednesday said it has started providing laser chips to customers ​for testing.

For decades, directed-energy weapons hovered just beyond the horizon of practical warfare. Engineers promised them. Generals waited for them.

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Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific understanding of how stars, nuclear detonations and fusion energy work. For ...