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• Mon Aug 15 12:19:00 CDT 2011 -- High-frequency amplifier from Trek offers bandwidth to 2.6 MHz
  The Model 2100HF amplifier controls output voltages from 0 to ±150 VDC or peak AC, with output currents of 0 to ±300 mA, bandwidth to 2.6 MHz (-3 dB), and typical slew rates of 2000 V/μs.
• Fri Aug 12 12:56:00 CDT 2011 -- Polychromatic x-ray coherent diffractive imaging cuts exposure time by a factor of 60
  Chicago, IL--A new form of x-ray coherent diffractive imaging (CDI), called polyCDI, has been developed that cuts exposure time by 60X, making the technique more practical for imaging nanostructures in great detail.
• Wed Aug 03 14:05:20 CDT 2011 -- LED light fixtures transmit digital data at 800 Mbit/s
  Berlin, Germany--By simply modulating the LEDs in an LED lighting fixture, it can become a digital transmitter for an optical wireless local-area network (WLAN).
• Mon Aug 01 02:25:00 CDT 2011 -- Integrated machine-gun laser results from Boeing and BAE partnership
  Albuquerque, NM--Boeing signed a teaming agreement with BAE Systems to develop a joint machine-gun system with a solid-state laser weapon.
• Sat Jul 30 02:15:40 CDT 2011 -- Wafer & crystal demand for LEDs, MEMS, and semiconductor chips fuels plant expansions
  Switzerland, Austria, and Santa Rosa, CA--Sensirion, EV Group (EVG), and Thermal Technology are all undergoing plant expansions to keep pace with growing demand for semiconductor wafers and crystals.
• Thu Jul 21 02:45:40 CDT 2011 -- Pulsed UV light boosts vitamin D levels in mushrooms
  Wilmington, MA--Australian mushroom growers are grateful to Xenon Corporation and its pulsed UV light technology for boosting vitamin D levels in mushrooms.
• Fri Jul 15 02:45:50 CDT 2011 -- InGaN-on-silicon LED from RoseStreet Labs reaches green and longer wavelengths
  Phoenix, AZ--The world's first long-wavelength light-emitting diode (LED) devices using low-cost silicon wafer substrates were demonstrated by RoseStreet Labs.
• Wed Jul 13 21:35:50 CDT 2011 -- In a busy week, Newport acquires High Q Technologies
  Irvine, CA--Newport Corporation (NASDAQ: NEWP) has agreed to acquire ultrafast-laser maker High Q Technologies GmbH (Rankwell, Austria).
• Wed Jul 13 15:35:40 CDT 2011 -- Höganäs, ABB, and Coherent open laser-cladding applications facility in Shanghai
  Shanghai, China--Along with Höganäs (China) Co. and ABB, Coherent (Santa Clara, CA) has opened a laser applications center at the Höganäs facility in Shanghai.
• Wed Jul 06 14:30:20 CDT 2011 -- Electrically pumped zinc oxide nanowire laser has conventional, rather than random laser emission
  Riverside, CA--Finally, a zinc oxide (ZnO) laser has been created that is not only electrically pumped, but has a Fabry-Perot (F-P) cavity.
• Tue Jul 05 14:45:10 CDT 2011 -- Siltronic AG and Imec team up to make GaN-on-Si wafers for next-generation LEDs
  Munich, Germany and Leuven, Belgium--Siltronic AG and Imec are teaming up to develop 200-mm-diameter silicon (Si) wafers that have a gallium nitride (GaN) layer.
• Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 CDT 2011 -- MID-INFRARED LASERS: Fiber-bulk hybrid mid-IR laser is broadly tunable over 1000 nm
  Many mid-infrared (mid-IR) solid-state laser sources do not operate at room-temperature due to the deactivation of energy accumulated in the gain media via nonradiative phonon-assisted decay.
• Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 CDT 2011 -- Quantum-dot laser operates at startlingly high temperatures
  A quantum-dot (QD) laser created by a team of Japanese researchers is capable of continuous-wave output at temperatures up to 220ºC, making it usable in extreme environments such as those encountered deep underground in oil and gas drilling.
• Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 CDT 2011 -- HIGH-POWER SOLID-STATE LASERS: Lasers speed solar cell production
  A new generation of Q-switched solid-state lasers is enabling thin-film laser scribing with a new set of processing parameters: High quality scribes for amorphous-silicon thin-film PV structures can be achieved at almost twice current scribing speeds.
• Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 CDT 2011 -- TUNABLE LASERS: 760 kHz OCT scanning possible with MEMS-tunable VCSEL
  Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) would be ideal for swept-source optical-coherence tomography (OCT) applications due to their micron-scale cavity length and low mirror mass for high sweep speeds, singlemode operation without mode hops, and long dynamic coherence length for long imaging range.
• Thu Jun 30 14:00:10 CDT 2011 -- Nitride Solutions raises $1.8 million to produce cost-efficient aluminum nitride substrates for LEDs, lasers
  Wichita, KS--Nitride Solutions has secured $1.8 million in financing commitments from Nebraska Angels (Lincoln, NE) and Aurora UV (Santa Barbara, CA).
• Fri Jun 24 11:30:50 CDT 2011 -- New blue OLED emitter has purer blue color and a two-times-higher external quantum efficiency
  Singapore and Ann Arbor, MI--A pure-blue organic LED (OLED) created by researchers at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and the University of Michigan has a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) that is about twice that of the best previous device.
• Mon Jun 20 02:35:50 CDT 2011 -- $4M DOE funding for LED manufacturing teams Veeco with Kyma
  Plainview, NY--Veeco Instruments was awarded $4 million by the U.S. DOE and will work with Kyma to lower manufacturing costs and improve the brightness and efficiency of LEDs.
• Tue Jun 14 02:55:10 CDT 2011 -- OLED manufacturing improvements goal of $2.9M DOE grant to Moser Baer
  Canandaigua, NY--Moser Baer Technologies (MBT) was selected by The U.S. DOE to receive a $2.9 million dollar grant to improve OLED manufacture.
• Fri Jun 10 02:00:00 CDT 2011 -- First 2 micron Q-switched fiber laser from AdValue Photonics targets mid-IR applications (VIDEO)
  Baltimore, MD--At CLEO 2011, AdValue Photonics described the operational capabilities and mid-IR applications for the first commercially available 2 µm Q-switched fiber laser.