A guided-missile destroyer at sea doesn’t need a missile to show it is ready. In a Navy-run drill, a bright beam came off the ...

Israel, the US, and other countries have worked on this technology. However, recent advances in technology have enabled ...

The Iron Beam (officially Or Eitan or "Eitan's Light") represents the world’s first operational high-energy laser weapon system. Following its formal delivery to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in ...

Laser powder bed fusion (LBPF), a 3D printing technique commonly used to make metal parts, creates large thermal gradients between areas hit by the laser and areas not being struck. This creates pools ...

A NASA-led engineering team announced on Oct. 9 that it has flown a lightweight, remote-controlled aircraft that receives power in flight from a ground-based laser. Theoretically, such a plane would ...

To get the most out of a laser, whether for communications or measurements, it must often be shaped or sliced into small sections. One reliable and inexpensive method of doing this is to use a ...

OPTONICS, with the Lz series 2D laser processing machine. Available in 6.0, 12.0, and 20.0 kW, the system incorporates the ...