The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) operates a laser with an open beam path at its DLR Institute of Technical Physics in Lampoldshausen. Researchers at this ...

Knowledge of a laser beam's shape and output-power distribution is critical for optimizing laser performance. Neil Savage summarizes the latest beam-profiling products on the market. People using ...

Israel’s experimental air-defense system known as the Iron Beam uses laser technology to strike down drones and rockets, but military analysts say the device needs U.S. support to improve its ...

Israel’s in-development high-powered laser interception system, dubbed Iron Beam, is expected to become ... the Iron Dome ...

His first attempts either blew right through the film or did absolutely nothing, but eventually he had the bright idea to move the laser farther from the LDPE. This put the beam out of focus ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

High-powered fiber lasers are making endothermic cutting—using nitrogen, air, and gas mixing—a dominant method, but as Andujo ...

2023) Their plasma wakefield acceleration system construction is described in an open access 2023 paper ... in that the injected laser beam had to be properly aligned with the main channel so ...

A powerful weapon that is going to be added to the Israeli defense system is interception using a laser beam. The Iron Beam ...

Due to its many years of expertise in the development and evaluation of high-power laser systems and technologies for active optical systems, investigations into beam propagation over long distances ...