Faster, more secure connections from space could one day make broadband on planes, ships and even remote roads as easy as turning on a light. The European Space Agency (ESA), Airbus Defense and Space, ...

Flight Officer Camron Iverson of the Washington State Patrol tested laser protection lenses formulated at AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate. The fact that Deputy Secretary of Defense ...

According to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Pentagon spends around $1 billion per year developing directed energy weapons to counter threats such as drones and missiles. The agency ...

(Yicai) Feb. 25 -- Shares of Han's Laser Technology Industry Group surged after the Chinese supplier of industrial laser ...

Next-generation data center connectivity startup Xscape Photonics today revealed it has closed on a $44 million early-stage investment, bringing its total amount raised to date to $57 million. Today’s ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the hottest place on Earth for the briefest of moments during an experiment. Now, it can be one of the brightest places ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Laser Photonics Corporation (NASDAQ: LASE) (“LPC”), a leading global developer of industrial laser systems for cleaning and other material processing applications, ...

WASHINGTON — As it prepares to start deploying a mesh network in low Earth orbit, the Space Development Agency is seeking proposals for a demonstration of laser communications between orbiting ...

The Space Development Agency’s planned architecture will feature hundreds of small satellites in low Earth orbit. Credit: Space Development Agency The Defense Department should fully demonstrate that ...

BluGlass, the Australia-based maker of gallium nitride laser (GaN) diodes, says it has acquired the GaNWorks foundry in Silicon Valley that it had previously used as a contract manufacturer. At a cost ...