Just as embroiderers, with needle and thread, can transform plain fabric into an intricate pattern, engineers can use lasers and polymers to create flexible, complex structures that could transform ...

The High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, deployed on a US naval ship, downed several drones last week. Here’s what you need to know about the game-changing technology.

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 ...

Militaries explore directed-energy weapons to counter Iran-style drone and missile attacks High-energy lasers are increasingly being viewed as a potential game-changer in defending oil facilities, ...

Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward Earth from 8 billion light-years away and was spotted thanks to a weird ...

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 ...

As AI model training scales up and cloud service providers (CSPs) accelerate the buildout of high-performance data centers, switch bandwidth is moving from 51.2Tbps to the 102.4Tbps generation, ...

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 ...

Minutes before midnight on Feb. 11, the Federal Aviation Administration shut down the airspace over El Paso, Texas, for 10 days − longer than the airspace closure after 9/11 − prompting confusion and ...

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).