Lasers with high optical power outputs are paramount in a variety of applications including manufacturing, material processing and testing, remote sensing, and medical applications. For this reason, ...

Designed for life science applications, the PLT5 488HB_EP cyan laser diode from ams OSRAM delivers 300 mW of output power at 488 nm. It offers five times the optical output and over 40% higher ...

The U.S. Navy has spent more than a decade testing shipboard laser weapons that can track and destroy drones, small boats, ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a breakthrough in laser technology by using machine learning (ML) to help stabilize a ...

The U.S. Navy has brought its only 150 kW high-energy laser weapon back online after months of engineering work, a ...

The Airborne Laser (ABL) system has rounded its major technical corners, program officials say, and will be testing a surrogate lower-power laser in flight as early as this month. "We're on the verge ...

Modern drones can fly exceptionally fast and for increasingly great distances, but flight time is still limited by battery life. PowerLight Technologies, an engineering firm in Washington state, has a ...