In parallel, Japan has built a heavy-truck demonstrator with a 10-kilowatt-class laser for stopping small drones. Mitsubishi ...

In the most recent tests, the system successfully transmitted lasers to aircraft flying up to 5,000 feet (1,524 meters), the ...

PowerLight Technologies has completed development and testing of a new wireless power system that uses lasers to recharge ...

Resonantly tunable quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are high-performance laser light sources for a wide range of spectroscopy applications in the mid-infrared (MIR) range. Their high brilliance enables ...

In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light. But in order for the signals to reach all the way and not ...

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Following recent communication issues, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft resorted to using a backup radio transmitter that has been inactive since 1981. The interstellar explorer experienced a brief pause ...

Scientists lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 probe from Oct. 19 to Oct. 24, after a technical malfunction forced the spacecraft's main radio transmitter to shut down, NASA officials wrote ...

I’ve got some bad news for you: Our eyes are not always reliable sources of information. If you’ve ever stepped back from a completed project and wondered why it doesn’t look right, it’s probably ...