由于光学纤维应用于激光器的开发,激光武器正在从科幻构想变成战场上的现实装备。一架无人机从新墨西哥州的不毛之地上空悄然掠过,瞬间突然失去了控制,一头栽向地面……向无人机发起攻击的是停放在沙漠中的一辆沙粒色大卡车,其车顶上的立方体机器在不停地转动,发射着肉眼看不见的红外线以摧毁目标——这是航空巨头波音公司为美国军队开发的高能激光移动演示器(HELMD)。卡车内部,波音公司电子物理学工程师斯蒂法妮·布朗特(Stephanie Blount)正盯着电脑屏幕上的目标,用手持游戏控制器指挥激光发射。她说:“这真像似在玩电子游戏。”事实上,第一台真正的激光器发明于1960年。 As optical fibers are used in the development of lasers, laser weapons are transforming from science-fiction ideas into real-life devices on the battlefield. A UAV quietly passing over the barren land of New Mexico suddenly lost control and headed to the ground ... The attack on the drone was a sand-and-mortar truck parked in the desert, The cubical machines on the roof are constantly spinning, firing infrared invisible to destroy the target - the high-energy Laser Moving Demonstrator (HELMD) developed by the aviation giant Boeing for the U.S. military. Inside the truck, Stephanie Blount, an electronics physics engineer at Boeing, is staring at the target on a computer screen and directing the laser shot with a handheld game controller. She said: “It really seems like playing video games.” In fact, the first real laser was invented in 1960.