Back in December of 2022, a team of researchers at the USA’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced that they had exceeded ‘scientific breakeven’ with their laser-based inerti… ...

A school gym-sized facility tucked away at the University of Michigan is quietly pushing the boundaries of what lasers can do ...

NASA says the refrigerator-sized relay will allow astronauts on the International Space Station to send high-resolution data, including images and video.

Scientists from the University of Rochester and UC Santa Barbara have built a laser so small it can sit on a penny. But don’t let its size fool you. This tiny laser could power the next generation of ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA's Deep Space Optical ...

The first net-positive shot, for example, required 300 megajoules to power the laser system alone. But they are continued proof that controlled nuclear fusion is more than hypothetical.

An experiment aboard NASA’s Psyche mission achieved “first light” by sending and receiving its first deep-space laser communications from far beyond the moon.

The new tool takes a full picture of laser pulses in one go. It helps scientists fix problems fast in fusion and other energy ...

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NASA has completed its first laser link with an in-orbit laser relay system, marking a significant advancement in space communication technology.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory launched the Space Wireless Energy Laser Link—or SWELL—late Tuesday to demonstrate laser power beaming in space as part of a scheduled Defense Department ...

The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan has roughly doubled the peak power of any other laser in the U.S. with its first official experiment at 2 petawatts (2 quadrillion watts).