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Craig D. Stacey
https://lumoptica.com
Craig D. Stacey
is CEO and co-founder of LumOptica (Bristol, U.K.).
Lasers & Sources
Can ultrafast lasers disrupt the future’s laser-based battlespace?
George A. Chappell
March 20, 2025
Plasma channels produced by self-focusing ultrashort laser pulses can disrupt and deflect laser beams and may offer a future defense against adversarial laser systems.
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![FIGURE 1. Modeling of femtosecond pulse propagation can be achieved by solving the nonlinear Schrödinger equation via COMSOL; the inset is an image of a filament of plasma [2].](https://img.laserfocusworld.com/files/base/ebm/lfw/image/2025/03/67dada65807595e57f0ecc7e-2505lfw_cha_1_web.png?auto=format,compress&fit=crop&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250 "FIGURE 1. Modeling of femtosecond pulse propagation can be achieved by solving the nonlinear Schrödinger equation via COMSOL; the inset is an image of a filament of plasma [2].")