Sorry, that laser dog ain’t gonna hunt. Smoke, clouds, rain, fog all diffuse any beam in the visible and near infrared wavelengths to harmless levels. Free electron lasers are widely tunable, but only within these wavelengths. And they are really bulky.

Just as we’re not going to see orbital weapons platforms: too vulnerable, too expensive, too power intensive. The International Space Station has on board power of less than 140 kW. And that’s the biggest electrical system in orbit. Big Boeing birds run on less than 16 kW when new and go downhill from there.

Rail guns: we could do those. Microwave weapons: okay for close up large targets, but too much beam spread for anything at a distance. (Much worse than lasers in that regard.)

Nope, no solar power satellites, either: launch cost is too great and ya can’t get the power down efficiently.

Strangely enough, you could actually use ground-mounted lasers to power larger more competent satellites, but you’d need a lot of redundancy in the ground stations to overcome clouds, fog and rain.

Lawrence Livermore Lab actually bounced a laser off the Moon, but they could only detect it on the return leg because they knew what frequency of coherent light to look for. (It was detectable but very diffuse on the return leg.)

Neat stuff but, barring something like dilithium crystals or unobtainium or zero point energy, not gonna happen anytime soon.