Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (THE CONVERSATION) Nations around the world are rapidly developing high-energy laser weapons for military missions on land and sea ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The USS Portland test-fires a laser weapon. The photo captured infrared light to make the beam visible. Staff Sgt. Donald ...

MIT researchers have built a nanoscale photonic device shaped like a tiny ski jump that launches laser light directly off a ...

Light-emitting structures that curl off the chip surface could enable advanced displays, high-speed optical communications, ...

An innovative computing system using laser beams and everyday display technology marks a significant leap forward in the quest for more powerful quantum computing solutions. Physicists from the ...

High-energy lasers can burn drones in the sky like a blowtorch. But they can be stymied by weather, and making them at scale will be a challenge.

Physicists at the UK’s Central Laser Facility have recorded the first observation of quantum radiation reaction, detecting how electrons lose energy in ways that classical physics cannot explain when ...

Inside most photonic chips, light races through tiny optical wires. It carries information far faster than electricity can in many conventional systems.