Depicted: Other Service An artist's concept of Soviet land, air and space-based lasers. (Soviet Military Power, 1987) Date Shot: 1 Jan 1987 Source: DOD Defense
caption: "Three green lasers are seen emanating from facilities at the Starfire Optical Range on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Lasers and deformable optics
Starfire Optical Range LIDAR laser seen here is actually two solid state IR lasers, 1.064 and 1.319 microns, that are frequency summed in LBO within a doubly
is science, but definitely not fiction. In this Picture of the Week, the lasers of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) are creating artificial stars in the
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