长期以来,射线枪一直是科幻小说中的重要武器。在美国科幻影片《星际迷航》中,角色们使用了手持激光枪或者相位枪。美国另外一部科幻影片《星球大战》中出现的爆能枪可以发射粒子束能量脉冲。在其他一些文学作品、电影和电视剧中,还出现了分解射线、等离子步枪、脉冲步枪等许多稀奇的武器,这些武器通常是手持型的,也有安装在各种机械上使用的。这些不同寻常的武器都属于定向能武器。定向能武器,又叫“束能武 For a long time, ray guns have been an important weapon in science fiction. In the U.S. sci-fi movie Star Trek, characters used hand-held laser guns or phase guns. Explosive guns that appear in another U.S. science-fiction movie Star Wars can emit particle beam energy pulses. In other literary works, films and television series, many unusual weapons such as disintegrating rays, plasma rifles and pulsating rifles have also emerged. These weapons are usually hand-held or installed on a variety of machines. These unusual weapons are all directional energy weapons. Orienteering weapons, also known as ”beam can force