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Laser Technology News 2001 p3:

• ILDA Honors Best Laser Displays and New Technology
  The International Laser Display Association's (ILDA) annual awards for artistic and technical excellence--the laser display industry's equivalent of Hollywood's Oscars--this year honored more than a dozen companies from around the world. The eleven artistic award categories covered virtually all aspects of modern laser displays, from the production of huge outdoor shows to the creation of individual graphic frames.
• Bandwidth9 Announces Optical Wavelength Locker
  Bandwidth9, a supplier of optical components and subsystems, announced the introduction of a wavelength locker that guides and stabilizes optical light sources within 50 GHz ITU grid spacings. An essential component for next-generation optical networks deploying high channel capacity within metro area infrastructures, the locker is the first of its kind
• Paradigm and Thermo Electron to Develop Technologies for Metabolomics
  Paradigm Genetics, Inc. announced the initiation of a strategic alliance with Thermo Electron Corporation to design and develop the next generation of chromatography/mass spectrometry systems for use in the field of metabolomics.
• Blue Laser Diode Lifetimes Exceed 1000 Hours
  Cree announced that it has achieved blue laser diode lifetimes in excess of 1,000 hours in the 400 nanometer range. The company has also increased the efficiency of its blue laser diode through improvements in threshold operating characteristics. These results are a significant step toward substantiating the viability of optical storage capabilities for commercial applications and supporting the company's marketing launch for Cree's laser diode.
• Sandia modelers help micromachine designers succeed in economic jungle
  Just as a movie theater's coming attractions help viewers choose movies they may want to see, preview images - computer -generated - of possible micromachines help designers choose the device they want fully fabricated.
• Researchers explore laser-based detection of airborne microbes
  A researcher at Eastern Washington University (Cheney, WA), in collaboration with two Washington companies and Washington State University, is nearing completion of a project to develop equipment that detects airborne microbes that can be used in biological warfare and bioterrorism. Quantum Northwest, a laser technology and instrument prototyping firm in Spokane, is building the bioparticle sensing device that attaches to the main collector.
• Florida researchers laser-map Pentagon structural damage
  Faculty and students in the University of Florida's civil and coastal engineering department are part of a multi-agency collaborative effort to use an entirely new technique to get detailed pictures of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The researchers will rely on both airborne laser swath mapping (ALSM) and ground-based scanning laser technology.
• Max-Planck researchers produce laser-like matter waves on a microchip
  Wolfgang Hänsel, Peter Hommelhoff, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Jakob Reichel of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and the University of Munich have dramatically simplified atom laser construction by using a thumbnail-sized microchip to achieve Bose-Einstein condensation.
• Submicron-scale metallic barcodes described by Penn State and Surromed
  Researchers at Penn State University and SurroMed, Inc., in the 5 October issue of the journal Science, report on the fabrication, optical properties, and initial application of microscopic metallic barcodes. When coated with biomolecules, these patterned metallic particles enable the simultaneous monitoring of multiple biological reactions in very small volumes of fluid.
• Oxford researchers achieve laser-like amplification of entangled photons
  Entangled particles are the bread-and-butter of quantum information schemes such as quantum cryptography. But they are notoriously difficult to create in bulk. This issue may soon be resolved with word that researchers at the University of Oxford (Oxford, UK) have achieved laser-like amplification of entangled particles.

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