The United Kingdom recently committed hundreds of millions of pounds to a directed-energy weapon designed to shoot down ...

What if you held in your hand a device so powerful it could ignite wood in seconds, melt metals with ease, and even create synthetic rubies? The world’s strongest handheld laser, boasting a staggering ...

Highly sensitive, semiconductor-based lasers, called the Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL), may soon provide infrared military and civilian countermeasures to protect aircraft from heat-seeking missiles and ...