Super Laser - TLC (The Learning Channel)

Description

Using newly declassified archive footage, the show allows viewers to witness the trials and tribulations of the first high-energy laser experiment against a moving target. It explores how these and other tests throughout the 1960s and 1970s laid the groundwork for the Star Wars defense initiative and how pioneering laser research brought new uses for lasers in the fields of surgery, welding, cutting, and holography. Follow the history and development of the laser. From its early beginnings, there was skepticism about its viability as a weapon. Then in 1973 there was a breakthrough that led to its success as the perfect defense weapon in the 1980's - "Star Wars".