Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons — The Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, Protocol IV of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, was issued by the United Nations on 13 October 1995. It came into force on 30 July 1998.Fact|date=December 2007TextArticle 1It is… … Wikipedia
Laser — For other uses, see Laser (disambiguation). United States Air Force laser experiment … Wikipedia
laser — /lay zeuhr/, n. Physics. a device that produces a nearly parallel, nearly monochromatic, and coherent beam of light by exciting atoms to a higher energy level and causing them to radiate their energy in phase. Also called optical maser. [1955 60; … Universalium
Weapons technology in the Honorverse — In David Weber s Honor Harrington military science fiction novels, warfare is naturally ubiquitous. Two thousand years in the future, it remains true that humans will devise ever more ingenious ways of causing death and destruction.tarship and… … Wikipedia
Laser applications — There are many scientific, military, medical and commercial laser applications which have been developed since the invention of the laser in the 1958. The coherency, high monochromaticity, and ability to reach extremely high powers are all… … Wikipedia
Laser broom — A laser broom is a proposed ground based laser beam powered propulsion system whose purpose is to sweep space debris out of the path of the International Space Station.It is designed to target debris between 1 and 10 cm in diameter. Even small… … Wikipedia
Laser — Demonstrationslaser: In der Mitte ist das Leuchten der Gasentladung zu sehen, die das Lasermedium anregt. Der Laserstrahl ist rechts als roter Punkt auf dem weißen Schirm zu erkennen. Laser [ˈleɪzə] (Akronym für engl. Light Amplification by… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Laser beam profiler — A laser beam profiler captures, displays, and records the spatial intensity profile of a laser beam at a particular plane transverse to the beam propagation path. Since there are many types of lasers ultraviolet, visible, infrared, continuous… … Wikipedia
Laser Mégajoule — (LMJ) is an experimental inertial confinement fusion (ICF) device being built near Bordeaux, in France by the French nuclear science directorate, CEA. Laser Mégajoule plans to deliver about 1.8 MJ of laser energy to its targets, making it… … Wikipedia
Weapons in science fiction — are typically depicted as being advanced of contemporary Earth weapons. Uses in the field tend to rely on hand held gun like weapons, while a sci fi story that focuses elsewhere, such as in space, may just use generic beam weapons, often just… … Wikipedia
