The High-Repetition-Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System (HAPLS) under construction in the Czech Republic is designed to generate a peak power of more than 1 quadrillion watts (1 petawatt, 10 15 watts) ...

Principles of supersymmetry have been used to boost the performance of an array of solid-state lasers. The work was led by Mercedeh Khajavikhan at the University of Central Florida in the US. Her team ...

The development of monolithic arrays of high-power, single-mode semiconductor lasers is set to bring big benefits to the printing, coding and marking industries. Printing is arguably one of the most ...

A laser phased array directed energy system has been designed and simulated. Lubin and Hughes calculated the requirements and possibilities for DE-STAR systems of several sizes, ranging from a desktop ...

This past Friday was not a good day for asteroid-human relations with asteroid 2012 DA14 passing a mere 27,700 km (17,200 miles) from the Earth just a few hours after a meteor exploded over the ...

The videos from [styropyro] are always amusing and informative. However, ironically for him, he is alarmed that many green laser pointers are more powerful than they are supposed to be. Sure, you ...

Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays represent a pivotal advancement in semiconductor laser technology. These devices emit light perpendicular to the wafer surface, offering benefits ...

SANTA CLARA, CA - SEPTEMBER 18: A worker at the displays a strip of a hybrid silicon laser chip at company headquarters September 18, 2006 in Santa Clara, California. Intel announced today that its ...

A team of researchers has overcome a long-standing problem in laser science, and the findings could have applications in surgery, drilling and 3D laser mapping. A team of University of Central Florida ...

This site has looked at arrays of laser modules for launching into space several times before and considers it a very promising approach. Jordin Kare had a proposed development plan to demonstrate a ...

DILAS announces its highest power conduction cooled, quasi-continuous wave (QCW) stack array to date. Available in configurations of 100W per bar or 150W per bar, specific combinations of wavelength ...

Multi-wavelength light sources are required for optical transceivers to increase data. However, scaling the laser array size increases thermal crosstalk, which may affect laser efficiency and ...