A new partnership between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ...

Coherently tiled titanium:sapphire laser amplification provides a relatively easy and inexpensive way to surpass the current 10-petawatt limit. “By adding a 2×2 coherently tiled titanium:sapphire high ...

Diagram of coherent beam combining experimental setup. Credit: Shuangxi Peng, Zhihao Wang, Feilong Hu, Zhengyan Li, Qingbin Zhang, Peixiang Lu Diagram of coherent beam combining experimental setup.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Freedom Photonics, a leader in photonic components, modules and subsystems, announced its aura TM single mode diode laser amplifier achieved a new performance ...

Engineers at the first of the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) locations under construction in eastern Europe have installed a laser amplifier head that will provide scientists with ten ...

Dr. Tammy Ma, head of fusion research at LLNL, said, “The transition from basic research to power plant development requires ...

Ultra-intense ultrashort lasers have a wide-ranging scope of applications, encompassing basic physics, national security, industrial service, and health care. In basic physics, such lasers have become ...

Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) has become a common technique for damage-free amplification of short optical pulses to terawatt levels and beyond. Typical high-repetition-rate Ti:sapphire chirped ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (June 21, 2012) -- Scientists and engineers at Picatinny Arsenal are busy developing a device that will shoot lightning bolts down laser beams to destroy its target. Soldiers ...

It seems likely that Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi 598 U.S. 594 (2023) will be one of the most significant, if not the most significant Supreme Court patent decision of 2023. Its holding that a claim to a ...

March 23, 2009 Star Wars-style laser weapons have taken another step closer to reality with Northrop Grumman reporting that it has produced a 105 kilowatt (kW) light ray from an electric laser in the ...

Thought that title might get your attention, but shooting lightning bolts down laser beams is just what a device being developed at the Picatinny Arsenal military research facility in New Jersey is ...