The laser is then used to focus on the incoming threat and hit it, burning through the projectile ... some of these threats" and therefore "powerful new solutions are required." ...

Its research will include using a unique cluster of high-intensity, high-repetition lasers focused on a single target aiming ...

Smashing a fuel pellet with lasers falls under the category of inertial confinement fusion. The other way, known as magnetic confinement fusion, uses powerful magnets to trap a burning cloud of ...

That’s more than three times the power output of today’s most advanced tactical laser system… but even such a laser would likely struggle to burn through the nosecone of a hypersonic missile.

Lasers in which the active medium consists of a low-pressure gas of carbon dioxide molecules have been used to produce the most powerful continuous laser beams achieved to date By C. K. N. Patel ...

Any advance in laser tech has huge potential across a whole range of fields – from space comms to fusion power – and we just got a big one: ultra-short laser pulses of up to 100 megawatts ...

The overall energy generated by those lasers is not especially impressive, but because it is highly compressed in time and space it creates mind-boggling power. These high-power laser pulses ...