The FAA imposed a surprise flight ban over El Paso earlier this week amid disagreements within the U.S. government over the use of a high-energy laser against drones at the border.

After years of putting off the drone threat, the U.S. government is trying to do something about it, but policy is struggling ...

While capable of powering drones up to an altitude of 5,000 feet, this is only the beginning of power beaming’s technological ...

For a while missiles looked like potential prey. They have thin skins and are packed with fuel and explosives. Merely damaging the shell of a supersonic missile can create drag, causing it to tumble ...

A Chinese warship used a laser against a German surveillance aircraft that was conducting operations above the Red Sea, Berlin said on Tuesday. Though an unusual occurrence in this waterway, the US ...

A laser-written glass chip shows how fragile quantum signals can be decoded with high stability and low loss, offering a new ...

In a demonstration, a General Atomics optical communications terminal mounted on a De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 twin engine aircraft established communications with a Tesat optical terminal on a ...

Milwaukee's M12 laser level is the definition of fun and functional, and it does so much more than your average bubble level tool. As with other laser levels, Milwaukee's version projects a beam of ...

Semiconductor laser diodes (SLDs) are often packaged with a photodiode. The output current from this photodiode can be monitored to regulate the output power intensity of the laser diode. SLDs, ...

Sometimes the most ordinary spaces turn into a quick test of improvisation. The filmer, Ethan, uses a high-energy laser toy to kill a scorpion to keep it from harming people. In the clip, a small ...