Several fields of quantum research have made their transition from research labs into commercial products, accompanied by grandiose claims. Are they as good as they say? We need people like Dr.

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Even a split-second direct exposure to a 200 mW laser emitting 100 yards away can cause permanent eye damage; considering that a CO 2 laser may emit thousands of watts of power at a close distance, ...