Like a high-tech hammer of Thor, a powerful laser can grab hold of a lightning bolt and reroute its path through the sky. In a mountaintop experiment, such a laser bent lightning toward a lightning ...

No, it isn't like its flashy cousins that blast aircraft away using high-powered beams to burn off wings and destroy electronics. Instead, it's a twin-turret laser weapon that can cover the entire sky ...

IR laser imaging is finally being commercialized into smart analytical equipment. New applications continue to emerge and yield massive advantages, thanks to the direct combination with FT-IR ...

A novel laser system made by a research team at Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully make lasers in the mid-infrared range work better. "Mid-infrared lasers ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission has achieved a first in crewed deep space communication, transmitting 484 gigabytes from lunar orbit via the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System. Using infrared ...

At LASER World of PHOTONICS CHINA 2026, Raytron introduced the OHLE6081, the world's first second-generation uncooled infrared detector built on SWLP (wafer-level ...

image: a, Schematic diagram illustrating simultaneous broadband 2nd-10th HHG via cascaded 2nd-NL QPM up-conversion upon a mid-IR pump femtosecond laser in CPPLN. b, Schematic diagram illustrating ...

Physicists have calculated how suitable molecules can be stimulated by infrared light pulses to form tiny magnetic fields. If this is also successful in experiments, the principle could be used in ...

NASA's Artemis II mission successfully demonstrated the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O), transmitting 484 gigabytes of high-definition data from lunar distance using infrared ...