Laser attacks have the potential to startle and distract pilots, or in worse case scenarios disorientate and incapacitate and may result in serious injury. This is according to the British Airline ...

A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space could be built in Britain. The major scientific project will follow in the footsteps of the Large Hadron Collider and will answer questions ...

Recent advances in ultrafast laser technology have enabled precise interrogation of molecular dynamics on timescales down to tens of femtoseconds. This field investigates how strong laser fields ...

CHINESE websites are selling super-strong lasers which are being used by yobs to "blind" pilots trying to land at Scots airports. Aviation bosses now want the lasers - which can cost as little as £10 ...

Strong field laser physics investigates the interaction between intense laser pulses and matter, a domain where non-linear phenomena such as multiphoton absorption, tunnelling ionisation, and ...

WEBSITES are selling super-strong lasers which are being used by yobs to "blind" pilots trying to land at Scots airports. Aviation bosses want lasers - which can cost as little as £10 - to be treated ...

More than 1,400 incidents of lasers being shone at aircraft were reported to the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in 2015. The number was slightly lower than in 2014 - but reports by police ...

A British Airways pilot has almost been blinded after a military strength laser' was shone at the cockpit of the plane he was co-piloting. The plane was reportedly landing in Heathrow at the time.

Scientists say they have made a major step towards being able to transform materials using just light. The new breakthrough is a step towards the creation of things such as windows that can turn ...

An American physicist hopes to build a ‘time telephone’ which will receive messages from the future. Ronald Mallett reckons that all you need is £160,000 ($250,000) and a pretty strong laser, and you ...

SPI Lasers LLC, today announced that it has hired two new senior staff members to expand the North American team as the company looks to build on strong growth in 2007. Jim Data joins SPI Lasers as ...