According to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Pentagon spends around $1 billion per year developing directed energy weapons to counter threats such as drones and missiles. The agency ...

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 ...

Fraunhofer ILT and partners report on the outputs of last month’s AKL 2022 laser congress in Germany. Prof. Constantin Häfner, head of Fraunhofer ILT, opened the AKL ’22 conference. After having to ...

High-energy laser weapons have promised so much for so long without delivering that you could be forgiven for doubting they would ever be useful on the battlefield. That day may finally have come. The ...

TUCSON, AZ / ACCESS Newswire / March 25, 2025 / Applied Energetics, Inc. (AERG), a company engaged in the development of advanced optical technologies and pulsed laser systems, has announced that it ...

Lithuania, now dominating over 80% of global supply of femtosecond laser resources, has seen 14 local enterprises in the sector collaborate with Taiwan's government-funded Industrial Technology ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Laser Photonics Corporation (NASDAQ: LASE) (“LPC”), a leading global developer of industrial laser systems for cleaning and other material processing applications, ...

BluGlass, the Australia-based maker of gallium nitride laser (GaN) diodes, says it has acquired the GaNWorks foundry in Silicon Valley that it had previously used as a contract manufacturer. At a cost ...

Ethical engineering may only receive lip service from some companies, but it's a guiding principle for Laser Photonics Corp (NASDAQ: LASE) (LPC). Sustainability and environmental and societal impacts ...