As costs drop, lasers will replace cutting tools and medical equipment, Coherent CEO John Ambroseo predicts. Photos: Forty years of lasers at Coherent Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET ...

Lasers made in Camas are shooting down attack drones and getting ready for bigger jobs. The company's stock is soaring.

As of 2025, the US, UK, Israel, Australia, and China are using laser weapons for air defense. This shows a shift in military ...

The U.S. Navy has identified laser weapons as an urgent capability need, and after many years of development, it is moving rapidly to deploy advanced laser capabilities in the near term to the fleet.

FOLSOM, Calif. – In a suburb of Sacramento, on the edge of a row of beige houses, a giant transmission tower shoots up into the blue summer sky. Jon Marmillo is looking up at a box sitting about 20 ...

In a discovery that challenges conventional optics, scientists have managed to make a laser beam cast its own shadow—a feat previously thought impossible, as light typically passes through other light ...

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

People examine the work of a robotic weeder during a field day hosted by UC Davis. (Nic Coury / For The Times) The smell of burnt vegetation wafted through a lettuce field here one recent summer ...