I’ve fired one of America’s most powerful lasers – here’s what a shot day looks like

It would take hours to set up the perfect shot at the Texas Petawatt Laser facility. Once it fired, the beam released an ...
IEEE

Diffraction Separation and Imaging Using Multidirectional Wavefield Low-Rank Approximation

Abstract: Low-rank approximation (LRA) is a powerful technique for seismic diffraction separation and imaging, providing higher-resolution images of subsurface discontinuities compared to traditional ...
IEEE

Predicting the Diffraction Behavior of LCoS-SLMs with High Accuracy Using Temporal Convolutional Network

Abstract: As a critical constraint in liquid crystal on silicon spatial light modulators (LCoS-SLMs), pixel crosstalk degrades their performance in various applications. Accurately predicting the ...
CBS News

Artemis II crew will use laser communications developed in Massachusetts on trip around the moon

The countdown is on for Artemis II and its crew's historic liftoff Wednesday evening. The mission will mark NASA's first piloted flight to the moon in 53 years. Attached to the Orion spacecraft the ...
The New York Times

Pentagon Weighs Using Anti-Drone Lasers in Washington Airspace

Sightings of drones around Fort McNair, the Army base where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio live, have prompted consideration of deploying the new technology. By Kate ...
Phys.org

Physicists create laser tornado in miniature structures using synthetic magnetic field

Can light behave like a whirlwind? It turns out it can—and such "optical tornadoes" have now been created in an extremely small structure by scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of ...