The U.S. Army has walked away from its 300-kilowatt laser weapon program, the Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser, or IFPC-HEL, ending what was its most powerful directed-energy ...
The most powerful laser in the U.S. just fired up to full strength for its first official experiment—and it’s an absolute beast. Reading time 3 minutes The ZEUS laser, tucked away (as much as a giant ...
A school gym-sized facility tucked away at the University of Michigan is quietly pushing the boundaries of what lasers can do. Known as ZEUS—short for Zettawatt Equivalent Ultrashort laser pulse ...
What if you held in your hand a device so powerful it could ignite wood in seconds, melt metals with ease, and even create synthetic rubies? The world’s strongest handheld laser, boasting a staggering ...
The United States military is pushing its directed energy weapons toward a tenfold increase in power, moving from systems that operate in the 100 to 150 kilowatt range to prototypes designed to reach ...
If you walk across the open yard in front of the Physics, Math and Astronomy building at the University of Texas at Austin, you'll see a 17-story tower and a huge L-shaped building. What you won't see ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed the nation’s most powerful laser. The latest design has nearly doubled the peak power of any other laser in the ...