Israel has crossed a historic threshold in modern warfare with the delivery of the world’s first fully operational high-power ...

Military researchers are now proving that drones do not always need to carry their own fuel or batteries. In recent tests, ...

Opaque materials can transmit light when excited by a high-intensity laser beam. This process, known as optical bleaching, induces a nonlinear effect that temporarily alters the properties of a ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking method for generating fast, bright proton beams using a high-repetition-rate laser-plasma accelerator. This work, published in Nature Communications, ...

NTT Inc. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) conducted an optical wireless power transmission experiment using a laser beam to wirelessly transmit energy over a distance of one kilometer. By ...

The big picture: With its first 2-petawatt experiment successfully completed, ZEUS is poised to push the boundaries of high-field science, providing researchers with a powerful new tool for discovery ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of Rochester nearly $18 million over three years to design and prototype key technologies for EP-OPAL, a new facility dedicated to the ...

Research and technology development for plasma physics and fusion energy at the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory recently received a boost from a LaserNetUS award. The ...