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Air Force eyes battery-operated laser
U.S. Air Force leaders are teaming with engineers in private industry to develop a battery-operated laser suitable for emergency battlefield surgery, or to send a low-power beam of light visible with special goggles or instrumentation. Officials of the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., signed a cooperative research and development agreement with executives of Fiber Optic Fabrications Inc. (CeramOptec) of East Longmeadow, Mass., to draw on