Point Source (Southampton, England) reported the use of a novel laser fiberoptics delivery technology for fundamental research into microgravity protein crystallization, conducted...
Astronomers at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Paranal, Chile have released new color-composite images of the central area of the Orion nebula. The wide-field mosaics probe ...
French physics researchers and glassmakers have collaborated to develop a "photographic" method for growing metal nanoclusters in silicon dioxide glass, which may eventually prove...
To get a feel for what fiberoptic communications is doing for (and to) the optoelectronics industry, simply look at the growth of the Optical Society of America's Optical Fiber...
Researchers in Taiwan have begun study on a new type of all-optical interconnection system that could eventually be applied to computing and networking.
Researchers in the biological research center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Szeged, Hungary) have used laser light to create, position and drive micron-scale pinwheels...
Optics, photonics, and imaging professionals will gather in Rochester, NY, when the city hosts the first OPTO-Northeast and Imaging 2001 Conference April 10 and 11 at the Rochester...
Exhibit space for Photonics West 2001, held in January in San Jose, CA, was sold out for the second consecutive year, say organizers of what has become the largest US conference...
If we look into the blue sky, we see a perfect contiguous image, despite the grainy structure of our retina. It is our brain that composes the image we "see" from the photonic...
Researchers at the Nanoelectronics Laboratory (Nanolab) at the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) have developed a nontraditional approach to increasing the density of ...
North American optoelectronics markets continue to boom; JDSU sells Zurich subsidiary to Nortel for DOJ approval of SDL merger; Optoelectronics push semiconductor market over ...
The article in the January issue announcing the naming of Willis E. Lamb as the recipient of the 2000 National Medal of Science incorrectly identified his discovery of the quantum...
It has been nearly four decades since the demonstration of the first diode laser at GE (Schenectady, NY) in 1962. Turning the first laboratory lasers into practical devices was...
All passive optical components exhibit polarization sensitivity in the transmission of lightwave signals. As more optical components are deployed, their polarization-sensitive...
While still far from displacing CCDs as the most common detector type, CMOS devices, especially with the higher resolution now possible, could soon give CCDs a run for their money...
By exploiting nonlinear fluorescence, a multiphoton-excitation microscope can scan and build up an image of an object in the same fashion as an ordinary confocal microscope, but...
Only a small portion of the electricity flowing into common incandescent light bulbs is emitted as visible light; the rest is given off as heat. The typical light-emitting diode...
If the eye is the window to the soul, it is the eye's motions that make it so: observable movements of the eye help to reveal emotions, moods, and even thoughts. Less familiar...
NAGANO—A research group at the Industrial Research Laboratory of Nagano Prefecture has developed a so-called "optical heat magnetism motor" that can be driven by a laser...
HYOGO—Collaboration between Himeji Institute of Technology, NEC (Tokyo) and Seiko Instruments (Mihamaku) has resulted in a technology that allows nanometer-scale three-dimensional...
So many metaphors have been used to describe the state of the optoelectronics business that it's difficult to come up with a novel way to describe just how dynamic our marketplace...
Two years after predicting that the cosmetic-laser market was on the verge of a technology "revolution" that would put compact, low-cost, easy-to-use systems in the hands of nonspeciali...
In many original equipment manufacturer (OEM) laser applications, the beam is ultimately focused to a small spot whose dimensions play a critical role in overall system performance...
One of the most overworked clichés in book publishing today is the quote, usually from some minor celebrity, "I couldn't put it down..." However, I have to admit that I recently...
The publication of Amendment 2 to IEC 60825-1 in January will prove to be an important event for the US laser industry. The IEC 60825 series of laser safety standards are accepted...
The new defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, the first to serve in that position a second time (having once before been defense secretary during Gerald Ford's presidency), brings...
