The U.S. Navy is switching its focus on directed-energy weapons from the megawatt-class free-electron laser to less-powerful solid-state lasers, announcing plans to develop and demonstrate a prototype ...

Repelling mass drone strikes is a hard and expensive task, but lasers might help.

The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) is seeking proposals to develop an affordable solid-state laser weapon prototype for Navy ships. The service’s broad agency announcement (BAA), released this ...

Deep ultraviolet (DUV) lasers, known for their high photon energy and short wavelengths, are essential in various fields such as semiconductor lithography, high-resolution spectroscopy, precision ...