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Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009	C-130-Based High-Energy Laser Weapon Defeats Ground Target in Flight Test Laser weapons experts from Boeing and the U.S. Air Force defeated a ground target from the air with the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) aircraft.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003	Teamed lasers make smaller spots Researchers from Boston University have tapped the properties of polarization in order to focus a laser beam more tightly in space. The method could be used to scan objects in finer detail and to make finer features in processes like rapid prototyping and photolithography.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John Keller	NASA plans laser-based satellite-tracking network NASA optoelectronics experts are making plans to build a new ground-based global network that uses green laser beams to track orbiting satellites and to study Earth.
National Defense December 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Lockheed Invests in Laser Technology Lockheed Martin is investing heavily in laser technology and new ways to manufacture such systems, as the company begins production of 60-kilowatt lasers for the U.S. Army.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John McHale	Chasing the goal of an efficient battlefield laser U.S. DoD researchers aim to develop small lasers for use in tactical air missions. The engineering challenge has been taken up by contractors including Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John Keller	Northrop Grumman shoots 27-kw beam of light for 350 seconds from solid-state laser Potential uses include protective and strike capabilities for ships, manned and unmanned aircraft, and ground vehicles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009	ABL High-Power Laser Weapon Moves Toward Missile Shoot-Down Demonstration Missile defense experts fired the high-power laser aboard the Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft in flight for the first time in August, to move the airborne military laser closer to an actual missile shoot-down demonstration.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005	Lasers Built Into Fiber-Optics Researchers have crossed a gas-filled fiber optic laser with ordinary fiber optics to make a Raman laser and a frequency stabilizer -- devices that provide precise control of laser beams.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009	Northrop Grumman-built laser demonstrates long-duration, lethal lasing onboard Airborne Laser aircraft Test settings can be used for future testing, including the planned shootdown of a ballistic missile with laser weapons scheduled to occur later in the year, according to company officials.
National Defense March 2009 Grace V. Jean	Military May Be Souring On Laser Weapons The Pentagon's enthusiasm for laser weapons is not what it used to be.
National Defense January 2011 Grace V. Jean	Beam Me Up Some Power To give the remotely operated planes better endurance in the skies, scientists are developing battlefield lasers to recharge the batteries in flight.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 John McHale	Laser Weapons Are Getting Closer to Reality U.S. Department of Defense experts are close to fielding the Airborne Laser (ABL) for missile defense and several other high-energy laser weapons programs received new funding this year.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John McHale	Laser Weapons: Moving From Promise to Performance The military's laser weapons programs are making steady progress in their transition from the laboratory to the battlefield, with deployment of initial systems expected within the next three to five years.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004	Fiber lasers emerge as strong competitor for future laser weapons They may be applied to jet fighters, land vehicles, and perhaps even man-portable systems. And they even have the potential to edge-out other solid-state laser approaches such as slab lasers and free-electron lasers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006	Northrop Grumman Solid-State Laser Intended for Several Kinds of Military Missions Scientists at the Northrop Grumman Space Technology segment are developing a high-energy, solid-state laser called Vesta that company officials claim is powerful enough to perform many basic military missions.
AboutSafety May 8, 2001	Laser Safety Guidelines for understanding the dangers of lasers and the importance of working with them safely...
Popular Mechanics July 22, 2008 Erik Sofge	Laser Truck Inches Closer to Iraq Battlefield: Exclusive First Look The Army is one step closer to getting what can only be described as a laser truck - one capable of disabling incoming rounds.
National Defense July 2010	Navy Looking at Lasers to Defend Ships From Enemy Aircraft The Navy recently tested commercial welding lasers and has proven that the beams are capable of knocking small planes out of the sky.
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 Eric Smalley	Wide laser makes simple tweezers Much of medical diagnostics and biomedical research involves trapping, manipulating and sorting individual cells and like-sized bits of matter. A recently demonstrated way of manipulating cells promises to be less expensive than laser tweezers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	Laser weapons slowly shifting from science fiction to reality During the exercise, called Advanced Concepts Event or ACE, pilots used the newly developed laser-armed F-16 simulator to prepare for aerial combat once laser weapons become available.
Popular Mechanics October 30, 2009 Jeremy Jacquot	7 Saber-Dueling, Phaser-Blasting Hollywood Laser Myths These sci-fi scenes may look cool on film, but real science tells a different story.
National Defense August 2010 Grace V. Jean	Navy Aiming for Laser Weapons at Sea The Navy expects to incorporate lasers onto most ship classes in its surface fleet, including amphibious ships, cruisers and destroyers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Weapons at the Speed of Light Laser weaponry will be a tool in the U.S. military's arsenal much sooner than many think, with the first applications for missile defense from the ground and the air.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Tekla S. Perry	Gregory Makhov: In Love With the Light Guiding Light: This engineer creates laser light shows that dazzle.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006	Northrop Grumman Test Fires Powerful, Continuously Pulsed Illuminator Laser A new diode-pumped solid-state, next-generation illuminator laser developed delivered multikilowatt output power while operating at 5,000 pulses per second during recent tests, company officials reported.
National Defense April 2006	Green Laser Device Slows Aggressive Drivers The eye-safe laser is said to slow belligerent drivers speeding by military checkpoints by 60 to 80 percent.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 John McHale	The Airborne Laser: It's Huge, it Flies, and it Blows up Missles The world's largest directed-energy weapon, the U.S. Defense Department's Airborne Laser, employs hundreds of complicated optics and several lasers to track down and destroy incoming missiles, and it is expected to be deployed by the end of the decade.
PC Magazine October 11, 2006	Bits & Bites v25n19 Intel and researchers have developed a silicon chip that can produce laser beams.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 John McHale	Future weapons: Solid-state lasers Industry and military scientists are moving forward in the quest to develop solid-state lasers for use as weapons by warfighters of the future.
National Defense February 2008 Breanne Wagner	Directed Energy: Low Power Weapons on the Rise As a result of growing demand in Iraq for handheld lasers, the Defense Department is reevaluating its long-term funding priorities for non-lethal weapons.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 John Keller	Air Force Seeks to Develop Phased-Array Lasers for Weapons and Communications U.S. military researchers are looking into ways of steering laser beams from flat arrays of optical emitters, in much the same way that phased-array radar systems steer radar beams without the need of a rotating platform.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006	BAE Systems Enters Market for Ground-Based Laser Warning Sensors The BAE Systems Sensor Integration segment in Austin, Texas, is jumping into the market for ground-based laser warning sensors to provide ground crews and vehicles with improved situational awareness and protection against laser-designated and laser-guided weapons.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 John McHale	Laser Weapons, on Target The U.S. military and its partners from industry are meeting major milestones in various programs as they move closer to making laser weaponry a standard part of the U.S. arsenal.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Laser Diffuse and Laser Retroreflective Sensors Banner Engineering is offering the World-Beam QS18LD laser diffuse and QS18LLP laser retroreflective sensors. The devices are for applications where high power and small beam size are important, such as semiconductor, materials handling, medical, and pharmaceuticals.
Popular Mechanics October 1, 2009 Tyghe Trimble	Advanced Tactical Laser Blasts a Stationary Target (With Video!) For years, the Pentagon's research budget has funded not one, but two planes armed with laser turrets.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Eric Smalley	Laser made from single atom The simplest possible laser -- a single atom -- has been on the drawing board for decades. Researchers have finally achieved the extremely precise control needed to make a laser from just one atom. The first demonstration of a single-atom laser showed that it's a different animal -- it produces quantum light.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 John Keller	Editor's Notebook: Darpa Details Requirements for High-Energy Diode-Laser Initiative The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving ahead with a program to develop a 100-kilowatt weapons-grade diode laser capable of destroying military targets.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009	Laser Weapons Are Here: ATL Test Shows Ability to Attack Moving Targets Effectively From the Air The U.S. Air Force's experimental Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) hit and damaged a moving vehicle in late September in a test that demonstrated for the first time the laser weapon's ability to attack moving targets effectively.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 John McHale	Airborne Laser completes laser ground tests During the tests, experts demonstrated lasing duration and power at levels suitable to destroy several classes of ballistic missiles, Boeing officials say.
National Defense February 2009 David B. Law	Defense Dept. Pursuing Next-Generation Nonlethal Weapons U.S. troops currently operate an array of nonlethal weapons that are becoming essential tools in today's complex battlefield. But additional capabilities are needed.
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Miles et al.	Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Turner & Ettenberg	Shortwave Infrared Laser Detection and Tracking on the Battlefield As warfare modernizes, improved pointing and targeting while remaining covert to the enemy from far away is critical to ensuring success. New shortwave infrared (SWIR) technology is helping to meet these critical goals.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley	Pure Silicon Laser Debuts Researchers have made a prototype laser from silicon. The laser is tunable, meaning it can lase in a range of wavelengths, or colors, and it works at room temperature.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 John Keller	Adaptive Optics Blends the Best of Electronic and Optoelectronic Technologies This approach uses deformable mirrors, MEMS, or liquid-crystal technologies to adjust for optical distortion in the atmosphere, which yields a new level of focus and resolution to high-energy lasers, deep-space exploration, and perhaps even eye surgery.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006	Air Force seeks to improve battlefield logistics with recycled laser fuel This achievement removes the need to dispose of used fuel, and will substantially improve warfighting logistics, says the Air Force project officer on the program.
National Defense April 2010 Austin Wright	Fighter Pilot Simulation Depicts Nighttime Weapons Launch Some fighter pilots are now training with a simulator that can depict the effects of firing a weapon while using night vision goggles.
Technology Research News March 9, 2005	Silicon Chip Laser Goes Continuous Useful lasers made from silicon would make it possible to move data between and within computer chips using light rather than electricity. This would make for faster chips that could be more tightly integrated with optical communications equipment.