Scientists in the United States were forced to pause the development of an advanced ultrafast laser technology that could have been useful for national defense and a host of civilian applications.

"The Zeus laser is scheduled to be a three-petawatt laser. That's something like 100 times the world grid power," said John Neese, a senior research scientist at the University of Michigan.

Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works ...

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Scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique called RAVEN that can capture the full complexity of an ultra-intense laser pulse in a single shot—something previously thought nearly ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is creating three research hubs in the hopes of harnessing miniature laser-driven thermonuclear explosions for future power plants, officials announced on Thursday.

The U.S. Navy is moving at warp speed to develop lasers with more lethality, precision and power sources as a way to destroy attacking missiles, drones aircraft and other threats.

KYOCERA SLD Laser, Inc. (KSLD), a world leader in commercialization of laser light sources, is introducing its new high power 5 watt blue laser diode .