Over the last several days, Helldivers 2 players have reported (and posted gameplay footage of) mysterious blue laser beams sailing across or falling from the sky and damaging or killing players.

Try to fathom the power of 1 million nuclear power plants. Now, imagine there is a way to pack the equivalent of that into ...

BluGlass’s high-power single-mode MOPA combines the benefits of a single-mode laser, and small form factor advantages for ...

But producing a small spot size with blue light has been tricky, says Hiroshi Ohno, who manages the laser development team to which Hagino belongs. A high brightness laser beam requires both high ...

Can light itself cast a shadow? It may sound like a philosophical riddle, but researchers have found that under certain conditions, a laser beam can act like an opaque object and cast a shadow.

With a diameter of just 300 micrometers, these generate a blue laser beam with a wavelength of 450 nanometers. A phosphor converter transforms this into roadworthy white light with a color ...

In this way, the laser beams from the ten PCSELs are combined ... Yagyu says that PCSELs across the gallium-nitride-based blue and indium phosphide-based near-infrared ranges have already been ...

Laser beam incident occurrence has been reported during beam alignment ... Lasers interacting with metals and potentially other materials may induce plasma production (ultraviolet or "blue light"), ...