A team of scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has developed a tiny chip that can redirect light at ...

Weaponized lasers are no longer science fiction. Discover how Israel is taking its powerful air defense system airborne to ...

Light can carry enormous amounts of information at extreme speeds, making photonic technologies promising for the development of faster communications, more powerful computing systems and more ...

Illustration of photon-photon scattering in the laboratory. Two green petawatt lasers beams collide at the focus with a third red beam to polarise the quantum vacuum. This allows a fourth blue laser ...

Visions of swarms of small, inexpensive drones filling the skies or skimming across the waves are motivating militaries to develop and deploy laser weapons as an alternative to costly and potentially ...