Directed Energy for the Modern Battlespace
Our ultrashort-pulse system delivers rapid sensor-kill effects to defeat drones and protect critical assets.
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AE employs ultrashort pulses and nonlinear wavelength generation into a camera's most vulnerable point: its optical sensor.
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These pulses couple into detector materials faster than thermal or mechanical countermeasures can respond, producing rapid sensor-kill effects at low average power.
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This scientific foundation gives AE the ability to defeat drones, ISR platforms, and optical systems at scales not previously achieved.
Introducing Pulsed Laser Air Defense (PLAID™)
Low Power. Mobile Deployment.
Decisive Effects.
Designed for layered defense, AE integrates with radar, EO/IR sensors, and C2 networks to provide a low-power, instantaneous effector matched to the scale and speed of the modern battlefield.
Ultrashort-Pulse Architecture
Winning the Sensor Fight
Backed by 25 years of R&D, 28 awarded patents, and classified work under secrecy order, AE’s ultrafast-laser architecture delivers precise, multi-wavelength energy effects unlock a critical national security capability.
Our proprietary ultrashort pulse laser (USPL) techniques render sensors permanently ineffective in milliseconds. Rapid defeat of sensors permits defense against large numbers of attackers limited only by the rate they can be tracked and fired on. Applied Energetics (AE) systems were designed from the outset to defend against the asymmetric threat of low-cost robotic systems.
Use Cases
AE’s compact ultrashort-pulse architecture allows dozens of effectors to be placed across a wide defensive envelope without heavy power or cooling requirements. This enables continuous protection of airbases, depots, ports, and other strategic sites against ISR drones and low-cost autonomous threats.
Directed energy for a new
era of defense
Designed for layered defense, AE integrates with radar, EO/IR sensors, and C2 networks to provide a low-power, instantaneous effector matched to the scale and speed of the modern battlefield.
