Osaka, Japan — Ultra-intense lasers with ultra-short pulses and ultra-high energies are powerful tools for exploring unknowns in physics, cosmology, material science, etc. With the help of the famous ...

* the Vulcan PW in the UK at 1 × 10^21 W/cm2 (2004); * the Ti:sapphirebased HERCULES laser at the University of Michigan, USA at 1 × 10^22 W/cm2 (2004) * J-KAREN-P in Japan at 1 × 10^22 W/cm2 (2018) * ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (March 3, 2020) -- The Army's newest directed energy weapon is ready to multiply its power. Solidifying the effort to demonstrate a higher-powered laser to combat a range of ...

Northrop Grumman and Raytheon are vying to build four 50 kilowatt (kW)-class lasers for US Army Stryker vehicles after the service picked Kord Technologies as the prime contractor for an effort that ...

Imagine a battlefield where missiles are intercepted mid-air with beams of light, drones are neutralized in seconds, and the cost of firing a weapon is measured in pennies rather than millions. This ...

A drop of methanol is distorted to form a cup of hot plasma. Plasma waves are driven in this cup by an intense laser, releasing hot electrons, followed by accelerated protons. Laser Ion acceleration ...