02/15/2012
For the April issue of Laser Focus World, we will feature an article on "Photonics Education" that was envisioned to complement the new education resources that appear on our OptoIQ home page. If you haven't visited OptoIQ late...
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02/14/2012
If your company has an innovative product or service and will be exhibiting at The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) in San Jose, May 6-11, then now is the time to enter the Innovation Awards.Again this year, CLEO...
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02/09/2012
I've just come across a tangle of connected websites that have to do with do-it-yourself spectroscopy -- meaning REALLY do-it-yourself, like building your own video spectrometer from a DVD-R (as the grating), a USB webcam, and ...
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02/06/2012
Gail OvertonSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldgailo@pennwell.comPhotonics West is such a condensed week of awesome photonics technology that it is next to impossible to describe even a fraction of the best presentations and papers....
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02/03/2012
On February 11 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award of Merit will go to ARRI, which makes professional motion picture equipment, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques (IPM). They are ...
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01/22/2012
..John Wallace..Senior Editor..Laser Focus World..johnw@pennwell.comSo I'm here at SPIE's Photonics West 2012 in San Francisco (and will be here until next Thursday), and I'm as overwhelmed as everyone else by the number and ...
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01/16/2012
Gail OvertonSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldgailo@pennwell.comThere is nothing quite like opening your electric bill for the third month in a row and owing $0 (thatâÂÂs a zero) dollars. This is the second winter season that ou...
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01/12/2012
..John Wallace..Senior Editor..Laser Focus World..johnw@pennwell.comA team at the MIT Media Lab, led by Ramash Raskar, has developed the best way yet to visualize the passage of light as it hits and passes around or through o...
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12/16/2011
Tom Hausken Optical Networking Research Strategies Unlimited Thausken@PennWell.comIt's time to weigh in on a pet peeve of mine. The topic is the state of high-speed Internet in the U.S., in a December 4 essay in the New York...
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12/09/2011
Tom Hausken Optical Networking ResearchStrategies UnlimitedThausken@PennWell.comNow that 2011 is coming to a close we can estimate who are the leading laser suppliers for the year. Once again it looks like Trumpf and Coheren...
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12/06/2011
Gail OvertonSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldgailo@pennwell.comIn the dusty little corner of the planet--the lower Mojave desert--that I call home, it's time to start raiding the just-picked lettuce and broccoli fields for the abu...
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11/23/2011
..John Wallace..Senior Editor..Laser Focus World..johnw@pennwell.comPredictions for the future of humanity range from an expansion of the human race throughout the universe to a quick self-extinction based on nuclear war or b...
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11/14/2011
Gail OvertonSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldgailo@pennwell.comThe daily news posting at http://www.laserfocusworld.com/ entitled "Laser turns brown eyes blue" generated much discussion on LinkedIn. The comments weren't centered a...
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10/27/2011
..John Wallace..Senior Editor..Laser Focus World..johnw@pennwell.comOptical metamaterials are truly revolutionary: their properties (for example, a printable negative-index material) are like no other, and their nanoscale str...
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10/24/2011
Gail OvertonSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldgailo@pennwell.comAh, who can forget the 2010 50th anniversary celebration of the laser? Our normally docile and academic-minded photonics industry was jumping in 2010, with jubilant ce...
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10/20/2011
John WallaceSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldjohnw@pennwell.comThe commoditization of high-tech builds on itself. For example, CMOS imagers are used in digital cameras, become cheaper to manufacture, and are used in cell phones an...
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10/14/2011
John Wallace Senior EditorLaser Focus Worldjohnw@pennwell.comAs Laser Focus World readers know, the use of the iPhone in photonics is growing. Examples include the iPhone as a source of info (geometrical optics guide; colori...
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10/11/2011
Gail Overton Senior Editor Laser Focus World gailo@pennwell.comIf you're able to attend the 2011 Frontiers in Optics conference (FiO 2011; www.frontiersinoptics.com)--the OSA's 95th Annual Meeting that ...
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10/06/2011
John Wallace Senior Editor Laser Focus World johnw@pennwell.comFirst, the science (I'll go through this quickly, because I want to get to the art). Optical contacting is a method of adhering two pieces ...
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10/04/2011
Gail Overton Senior Editor Laser Focus World gailo@pennwell.comBack in early August, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA; Washington, DC) announced its "Can you see it now?" campaign...
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09/29/2011
Conard Holton Associate Publisher, Editor in Chief Laser Focus World cholton@pennwell.comThe new Lasers for Manufacturing Event, organized by the Laser Institute of America (LIA) and held September 27-2...
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09/21/2011
John Wallace Senior EditorLaser Focus World johnw@pennwell.comWhen it comes to simple, imaginative approaches to optical design, the spherical mirror has not been left out. Or at least that's what I found when I came across...
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09/19/2011
Gail OvertonSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldgailo@pennwell.comDid you know that an origami-based folding solar panel designed by Japanese astrophysicist Koryo Miura actually flew on a Japanese satellite in the 1980s and is the in...
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09/14/2011
John Wallace Senior Editor Laser Focus World johnw@pennwell.comScientists have been talking for many years about how artificial lighting can cause poor sleep. To that, you might say, "So shut the lights...
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09/09/2011
Gail Overton Senior Editor Laser Focus World gailo@pennwell.comI was reading an article this week in the July 2011 issue of Physics Today on natural gas fracking called "Shale-gas extraction faces gr...
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09/09/2011
Conard HoltonAssociate Publisher, Editor in ChiefLaser Focus Worldcholton@pennwell.comThe Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize honors scientists and developers who make advancements in the field of applied laser technology. The ...
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08/31/2011
John Wallace
Senior Editor
Laser Focus World
johnw@pennwell.com
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a cosmological probe every bit as revolutionary as the Hubble Space Telescope was (after its fix) -- and the JWST...
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08/29/2011
Gail Overton Senior Editor Laser Focus World gailo@pennwell.com
With a total of 25 plenary sessions, SPIE Optics + Photonics could quite possibly be the most plenary intensive conference in the photonics industry today. Be...
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08/26/2011
Conard Holton
Associate Publisher, Editor in Chief
Laser Focus World
cholton@pennwell.com
SPIE Optics + Photonics, the society's annual meeting in San Diego (August 21-25), drew an enthusiastic crowd of nearly 5000 attendees ...
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08/24/2011
John Wallace
Senior Editor
Laser Focus World
johnw@pennwell.com
In a remarkable development, General Electric has licensed a laser-enrichment technology developed by an Australian company called Silex, and has been successful...
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