Powerful lightning strikes pose a significant threat to buildings and people, but imagine if it were possible to control and direct them with a laser beam. Nature Photonics spoke to Jérôme ...

Optical engineer, Haruyoshi Toyoda, director of the central research laboratory at Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu, Japan, has been working on laser control since he joined the company in 1986.

The systems are programmed using CMS Laser’s proprietary software, offering intuitive and efficient control.

The new method is far more expensive, but it allowed scientists to use a laser beam to control lightning bolts. The physicists working on the experiment did so from a mountaintop in Switzerland ...

In 2014, the US Navy installed its first prototype SSL (solid state laser) capable of countering surface craft and unmanned ...

Topcon says its Millimeter GPS+ combines the high vertical accuracy of a laser reference with GPS positioning to improve grading accuracy up to 300 percent over existing 3D GPS control systems.

Dyndrite has announced that it will showcase its Additive Manufacturing software during the company’s 2025 You Control the Laser tour.