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Directed Energy Defense & Laser Fusion

Pioneers in Pulsed OEC Laser Innovation
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WHY IT MATTERS

Energy and Defense

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Powering Economic Growth

Energy for data centers, AI, manufacturing, water desalination, EV’s, and more.

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Directed Energy Defense

Pulsed directed energy laser to defeat advanced threats.

Areas of Innovation

  • High Energy Lasers
  • Optical Enhancement Cavities
  • Directed Energy Defense
  • Laser-Target Reaction Physics
  • Reaction chamber design and energy conversion
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Experienced Commercialization Team

  • Government program management
  • Commercial supply chain development
  • IP, legal, regulatory & export compliance
  • Site development & government relations
  • Advancing the high power laser capability
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Since 2022

The Path to Directed Energy Defense and Commercial Fusion

Blue Laser Fusion, Inc (BLF) is commercializing a proprietary and novel pulsed laser architecture based on its high peak power, efficient, reliable and cost-effective laser optical enhancement cavity (OEC) technology.  BLF is pursuing pulsed laser applications in directed energy defense to neutralize advanced threats with instant engagement of targets at the speed of light, with a deep magazine and low cost per shot compared to conventional approaches.

Additionally, the company is developing GW scale, safe, secure, clean fusion energy based the proven ignition and gain demonstrated by LLNL NIF in 2022 in order to power economic growth and meet the acute and increasing demand for data centers & Al, EVs, and on-shored manufacturing.  BLF has a comprehensive IP portfolio with more than 120 patents and applications internationally. Blue Laser Fusion is based in Santa Barbara, CA with additional operations in Japan

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Meet Our Experts in
Science & Innovation

  • Shuji Nakamura, Ph.D.

    The 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics
    CEO, Co-Founder, Board Member

    Shuji Nakamura, Ph.D.

    The 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics
    CEO, Co-Founder, Board Member

    Shuji Nakamura, Ph.D.

    The 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics
    CEO, Co-Founder, Board Member

    BLF was founded in 2022 by Dr.Shuji Nakamura, 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics and solid-state lighting pioneer, whose high efficiency LED lighting inventions have helped transform the world by substantially reducing the global energy power consumption.

    Shuji Nakamura was born in Ehime, Japan. After studying electrical engineering at the University of Tokushima, he worked at the chemical company Nichia in Tokushima, where he conducted his Nobel Prize-awarded work.

    The development of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) has made more efficient light sources possible. Creating white light that can be used for lighting requires a combination of red, green, and blue light. Blue LEDs proved to be much more difficult to create than red and green diodes. During the 1980s and 1990s Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano improved the material quality of GaN. Shuji Nakamura successfully developed an emitting layer of InGaN and then finally invented high-efficient blue/green LEDs using InGaN double hetero-(DH) structures.

  • Richard Ogawa, Esq.

    CleanTech Intellectual Property
    General Counsel, Co-Founder, Board Member

    Richard Ogawa, Esq.

    CleanTech Intellectual Property
    General Counsel, Co-Founder, Board Member

    Richard Ogawa, Esq.

    CleanTech Intellectual Property
    General Counsel, Co-Founder, Board Member

    General Counsel and Chief Intellectual Property Officer experienced in start-ups, and building companies in both private and public markets in high technology. Experienced in running and growing public companies from start up to up to $10B in market capitalization. Specialties include intellectual property strategy, including patent strategy, joint ventures, patent prosecution, litigation, and licensing, regulatory law, including export control, immigration, and privacy, mergers and acquisition of both private and public companies, transactions, including both customer and vendors, and funding, including private and public funding sources for high technology companies.

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Hear from Industry Experts

Akihiko Nakano
SoftBank Corp
Vice President Green Transformation Promotion
Division Head

“We are thrilled to be part of the journey with Blue Laser Fusion. As electricity demand for data centers are expected to increase rapidly due to the spread of AI, we hope to utilize CO2-free clean energy generated by Blue Laser Fusion’s unique and innovative laser technology, and realize a decarbonized society.”

Franco Cotana
RSE
CEO

“We are honored to have the opportunity to cooperate with a technological leader on an ambitious innovation project that aims at accelerating the energy transition.”

Prof. Carmen Menoni
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Colorado State University

“In this INFUSE project we will fabricate and evaluate interference coatings to create world-class mirrors to support the BLF optical enhancement cavity platform and develop characterization tools to evaluate the reflectivity and thermal performance of the mirrors. The BLF OEC enables a new performance regime for high energy pulsed lasers that can be used to drive fusion reactions.”

Prof. Shinsuke Fujioka
Director of Blue Laser Fusion Energy Collaborative Research Institute, The University of Osaka

”By integrating BLF’s advanced laser technologies with OU’s research capabilities, we are jointly pursuing a new pathway in which the OEC laser directly illuminates fusion fuel to achieve highly efficient energy coupling, while simultaneously fostering the education of young talent. This partnership is already yielding meaningful progress toward demonstrating this innovative laser-fusion approach, and with the support of the Moonshot program and more, we aim to reach even greater heights.”

Yusaku Maezawa
Founder of ZOZO, Inc.
Founder of KABU & PEACE Inc.

“Investing in Blue Laser Fusion represents more than just a financial opportunity; it is an investment in the future of energy and our planet. Fusion has the potential to revolutionize how we power our world, and we are proud to be backing a company at the forefront of this transformative technology.”

Tetsuya Yamada
Itochu Corp
Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer,
Energy Division

“Joining forces with Blue Laser Fusion represents a strategic investment in the future of clean energy. Fusion has long been touted as the holy grail of sustainable power, and we’re confident that BLF has what it takes to bring this vision to fruition.”

Prof. Rana Adhikari
Professor at Caltech

“I am excited to be working with Blue Laser Fusion. We are working together to apply optical enhancement cavity technology, developed for the LIGO gravitational wave detectors, to the topic of laser inertial fusion energy generation. This is a great example of leveraging the development of a scientific tool to a critical energy application.”