Engineers affiliated with the China Academy of Space Technology and its Qian Xuesen Laboratory have laid out a concrete technical roadmap for building a kilometer-scale solar power station in orbit, ...

In a move that sounds like the wildest of science fiction, DARPA has announced its new Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program that plans to use lasers relayed by airborne platforms ...

Pictured above: U.S. Marines inspect a Tactical Unmanned Aerial System RQ-7B Shadow. The Shadow drone is capable of providing reconnaissance, surveillance, and a laser designator for air support.

Calculating laser power density What is a LiDAR point cloud? Wide array of applications for lasers. LiDAR (light detection and ranging) can measure the distance of an object (measuring the time for ...

It needs space, weight, power and cooling which can be a challenge on our current surface combatants. The engineering center of gravity of the engineering behind shipboard lasers is captured by that ...

Powerlight Technologies’ laser-based power beaming system gets a demonstration at the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s David Taylor Model Basin in Maryland. (USNRL via YouTube) Wireless power ...

Defining laser-beam power density. Power spectral density (PSD) is the measure of a signal's power content versus frequency. PSD gives designers an idea of how the power of a signal is distributed ...

NTT Inc. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) conducted an optical wireless power transmission experiment using a laser beam to wirelessly transmit energy over a distance of one kilometer. By ...

The next frontier in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology is all about keeping these aircraft fueled indefinitely. If we ...