Every laser cutter enthusiast eventually pops the question: how on earth do I align an invisible beam that’s more-than-happy to zap my eyeballs, not to mention torch everything else in its path?

The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) operates a laser with an open beam path at its DLR Institute of Technical Physics in Lampoldshausen. Researchers at this ...

The Wyoming Cloud Lidar (WCL) is an airborne observational system ... operating at 532 or 1064 nm with the same laser energy. This is important for calibrating backscattering coefficients. The laser ...

The crew are to be able to precisely determine the plane’s position to direct the narrow laser beams at the selected targets," Mikheyev said. The airborne laser will be so powerful that the ...