A team of physicist based on Yale University has announced the creation of a device that would be able to dissipate the energy carried by a laser beam.

Led by Professor Douglas Stone, the physicists designed the device to absorb the full emission of a laser beam until its energy dies down though the researchers are stressing that the breakthrough development, at its infant stage, could not be utilised for defence against highly-energised laser weapons.

Stone said that newly-developed 'anti-laser' would be mostly useful on future computer systems that would be engineered around components that use lights instead of electrons.

The Yale University team, according to Stone, commenced its development of the new device by exploring on materials that he said were regarded as basic components of lasers, leading to serious works "on a theory that could predict what could be used to form a laser."

Stone added that the whole work concept revolve on the assumption that "instead of amplifying light into coherent pulses, as a laser does, it should be possible to create a device that absorbs laser light hitting it."

Pursuing that theory, Stone's team worked on focusing two laser beams, each with specific frequencies, that were trained on an optical cavity made from silicon materials. As a result, the beams were trapped by the specially designed cavity and forced them to bounce around within until their energies have been exhausted.

The gist of their work was published by the journal Science, where Stone's team showed that their new 'anti-laser' device could absorb up to 99.4 percent of incoming light, emitted through specific wavelength.

The physicists work also established that the 'anti-laser' can be manipulated as Stone told BBC News that incoming light's wavelength can be altered, which he added is a concept applicable to optical switches.

Basing on the device's present design and make, the 'anti-laser' veers more on being used for supercomputer technologies and could not be utilised as a laser shield, with Stone explaining that "the energy gets dissipated as heat and if someone sets a laser on you with enough power to fry you, the anti-laser won't stop you from frying."