The United Kingdom has quietly pushed a science‑fiction idea into operational reach: a ship and land based laser that can burn through aircraft and drones with concentrated light. DragonFire, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have reportedly made a major 'breakthrough' in solid-state deep ultraviolet ...

Solid-state batteries promise greater safety, higher energy density, and new degrees of freedom in cell design. Yet the path from laboratory cell to industrial production is challenging. Laser ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese scientists have pushed solid-state vacuum ultraviolet laser technology to a new milestone by achieving a record-short ...

In the past two decades the development of a new generation of lasers began to change all this. The basic problem was three fold. First, figure out how to make a laser with enough power to be ...

Solid-state laser-based external-cavity QEPAS detection. Solid-state laser-based intra-cavity QEPAS detection. USA, September 1, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A long ...

In 2014, the US Navy installed its first prototype SSL (solid state laser) capable of countering surface craft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on a Navy ship. The Navy since then has been ...

The unique characteristics of fluoride ceramics, including phonon energy, refractive index, and nonlinear refractive index, render them highly suitable as laser matrix materials. Fluoride-based laser ...

Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have reportedly made a major ‘breakthrough’ in solid-state deep ultraviolet (DUV) lasers. A paper published in a journal by International Society ...