Laser pod could destroy bombs

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

this is the beginning of the laser beam era.

That gets NASCAR types all excited. However this same week, Intel Haifa in cooperation with UCSB released details of a silicon based laser. This missing component makes possible replacing an entire electrical communication circuit with an optical circuit of multiple time division and wavelength division multiplexing. Pulse widths of 4 picoseconds with stable (jitter free) operation. This in combination with another woman who had slowed light to the speed of a bicycle and now has stopped (stored) light - light memory.

A toy that blows things up is cute. But the real power of lasers is more found in what is done constructively.

Meanwhile a bomb that cannot be seen makes the laser useless. A bomb that can be seen is taken out even by a grenade - that does not cost $multi-millions. The IED that cannot be seen even converts a $multi-million laser into a victim.