Optical vortices—light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM)—are characterized by helical wavefronts and phase ...

Dr. Jiyeon Choi, Principal Researcher at the Department of Laser & Electron Beam Technologies of the Research Institute of Autonomous Manufacturing at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials ...

The High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, deployed on a US naval ship, downed several drones last week. Here’s what you need to know about the game-changing technology.

Smoke rose from a drone after it was shot down by a 50-kW laser mounted on a U.S. Army Stryker vehicle. Credit: U.S. Army High-energy lasers are having a long-overdue moment. Two incidents in late ...

As AI model training scales up and cloud service providers (CSPs) accelerate the buildout of high-performance data centers, switch bandwidth is moving from 51.2Tbps to the 102.4Tbps generation, ...

Israel, the US, and other countries have worked on this technology. However, recent advances in technology have enabled lasers to finally become more practical for military uses. On Monday morning, a ...

Moving photonic ICs into the same package as silicon helps improve performance, but lasers remain outside. A new monolithic laser array allows hundreds of colors, each individually software-tunable ...

Minutes before midnight on Feb. 11, the Federal Aviation Administration shut down the airspace over El Paso, Texas, for 10 days − longer than the airspace closure after 9/11 − prompting confusion and ...

Microsoft is standardizing Landing Zone deployments around Azure Verified Modules. The Platform Landing Zone Bicep implementation is now generally available and uses AVM modules exclusively, ...

Rheinmetall secured an order valued at several hundred million euros to supply the German armed forces with laser-light modules in the latest sizable contract for the defense group. The company said ...

KYOTO, Japan, Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan (hereinafter "NTCJ") has announced the launch of its compact high-power violet laser diode (402nm, 1.7W) which achieves ...