The University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics has secured $5 million to advance short-pulsed laser research tied to national defense.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Federal Government wants scientists at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics to change the world, and it’s giving researchers millions of dollars to try ...

On Friday, May 19, 2023, Impossible Sensing, along with a team of scientists and engineers from SETI Institute, NASA JPL, University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory and other institutions ...

Dr. Gilliss Dyer surveys the target bay of the Texas Petawatt Laser, in preparation for an experiment. Researchers from universities around the world utilize the unique timescale of the Petawatt for ...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. (April 26, 2017) - An explosion occurred in a research laboratory resulting in the researcher losing an arm and sustaining burns to her face. The explosion occurred when the ...

Artificial rainmaking is an imprecise, environmentally hazardous process, but it could be made a little more eco-friendly with the addition of lasers. [partner id ...

I love the bit in Bond films where 007 goes round Qs laboratory checking out the latest top-secret gadgets. Thats why I enjoyed talking to Capt.Wegner and his colleagues at ScorpWorks, source of a ...

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Japan has quietly crossed a threshold in naval warfare, installing a massive high-energy laser on a dedicated test ship and ...

A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a terahertz quantum cascade laser (QCL) device. Credits: Qing Hu and colleagues A new type of high-power quantum cascade laser that works without bulky ...

Beam me up Interaction Point 2 at the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator will be used to study plasma physics, research cancer therapies and for quantum science. (Courtesy: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab) A ...

In the first experiments conducted at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif., since its outdated particle accelerator was converted into the world’s brightest X-ray laser, ...