Vexlum, a manufacturer of advanced semiconductor laser systems, and Menlo Systems, a provider of precision photonics ...

Artist rendering of the Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser. (Lockheed Martin) Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons ...

Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. Subscribe here. For decades, the U.S. military’s dream ...

Smoke rose from a drone after it was shot down by a 50-kW laser mounted on a U.S. Army Stryker vehicle. Credit: U.S. Army High-energy lasers are having a long-overdue moment. Two incidents in late ...

Shopping for a printer largely boils down to choosing between inkjet and laser. Both put text and images onto paper, which seems straightforward enough, but they differ in how they do it. Which you ...

The headlines lately have verged on science fiction. A few weeks ago, my colleague Simon Shuster reported that the Ukrainian military had unveiled a new anti-drone laser weapon called the Sunray. On ...

There are plenty of ways to remove unwanted body hair: shave, wax, epilate. But if you’re looking for a more permanent result, laser hair removal is the way to go. The only downside? In-office ...

Moving photonic ICs into the same package as silicon helps improve performance, but lasers remain outside. A new monolithic laser array allows hundreds of colors, each individually software-tunable ...

The Defense Department has been aggressively pursuing laser weapons and defense systems, a push that gained significant attention this week when the use of an anti-drone laser system led to the ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lightmatter, the leader in photonic (super)computing, today announced a foundational advancement in laser architecture: Very Large Scale Photonics (VLSP).

Rheinmetall secured an order valued at several hundred million euros to supply the German armed forces with laser-light modules in the latest sizable contract for the defense group. The company said ...