Scientists have found a competitor to the lightning rod — one of the most tried and true methods of controlling where lightning strikes. The new method is far more expensive, but it allowed scientists ...

The laser weapon will be housed in a pod attached to a fighter-sized aircraft. The system will be tested on a tactical aircraft flying at speeds up to supersonic. AFRL expects to begin flight testing ...

employees in Huntsville will soon be mounting the company's laser weapon beam control system on a heavy truck for the Army's High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator program. Boeing accepted an ...

Northrop Grumman has announced it will help the US Air Force to develop a new defensive weapon to be installed in existing and future aircraft. The contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory ...

• GuideStar™ II delivers high precision control for complex laser beam positioning New Focus™, a Newport Corporation Brand, announces the new Picomotor™ mirror-mount-based laser beam steering ...

The Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) Center at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in California, has developed an optical system to precisely measure and control ...

Researchers have developed a single metasurface that can effectively tune the different properties of laser light, including wavelength, without the need of additional optical components. The ...