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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...