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Defense Company Markets Laser Weapon to Battle Pirates

Ships sailing through areas known for pirate attacks might soon have a new weapon in their arsenal: lasers that could target the attackers and keep them at bay. It's not a death ray meant to vaporize attackers but rather a low-powered laser designed to temporarily blind and disorient potential aggressors, like pirates,...

New Laser Weapon Blasts Spy Drones Out of the Sky

(July 19) -- A U.S. defense company wants to take drone wars to a new level with a laser weapon capable of shooting down unmanned aircraft. Raytheon today touted its new weapon, which brought down four drones over the Pacific Ocean during tests conducted with the U.S. Navy this spring. "One of the Navy's problems is that...

Next Step for U.S. Military Drones: Lasers?

Northrop Grumman One of Northrop Grunman's unmanned aerial vehicles, the RQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk. Unmanned aerial vehicles have been used to spy on terrorists, track insurgents, and even to hunt down and kill al-Qaida leaders hiding in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Now, a Pentagon research and development arm is looking...

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02/09/12 Lasers Used to Generate Remarkably Detailed 3D Map of... Source: Treehugger The Amazon rainforest remains one of the few places on Earth that's largely still shrouded in mystery, home to countless plant and animal species yet unknown to science -- but thanks to remarkable new laser imaging technology, our view of the region just got a whole lot clearer.
02/09/12 National Laser Institute to hire 40 in Scottsdale,... Source: The Business Journal of Phoenix - Phoenix AZ The school employs 100 people, and owner Louis Silberman said he's looking to hire 40 new employees in a variety of positions during the next 12 months.
02/09/12 Storage Tech Sizzles With Hot, Hot Hard Drives Source: TechNewsWorld (ECT Network) An international team of researchers led by the University of York in England has demonstrated fast data recording on hard drives using heat.
02/09/12 Bob Struthers Joins PD-LD as Executive Vice-President... Source: PRWeb Pennington, NJ (PRWEB) February 09, 2012 PD-LD Inc. ("PD-LD or the "Company"), the worldwide leader in Volume-Bragg Grating (VBG®) technology today announced that Bob Struthers has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Business Development. Bob brings to PD-LD over 30 years of experience in Photonics and Semiconductors from EG&G, Sensors Unlimited, Finisar and most recently Goodrich ISR Systems-Princeton where he served as Director of Sales & Marketing.
02/09/12 ProPhotonix Adds New HL65051DG Laser Diode From Opnext... Source: PrimeZone Media Network HL65051DG Provides High Power Single-Mode 660nm Output With Built-In Photodiode SALEM, N.H., Feb. 9, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ProPhotonix Limited, (LSE:PPIX) (LSE:PPIR) (OTC:STKR.PK), a designer and manufacturer of LED light engines and laser diode modules as well as a distributor of premium laser diodes, is pleased to announce that they are adding the HL65051DG laser diode from Opnext, Inc. to the wide range of diodes ProPhotonix offers.

Background on lasers

A laser is a device that emits light (electromagnetic radiation) through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of photons.

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