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Laser Technology News 2001 p5:

• MEDICAL LASER REPORT:
  Glaucoma products have visions of growth
  Since it is widely believed that a person's retinal nerve fiber layer and optic nerve provide important information about the presence and progression of glaucoma, researchers have developed several innovative imaging technologies that can provide quantitative information about the human eye.
• REMOTE SENSING:
  Hyperspectral sensing service promotes precision farming
  In a project that began in the spring and continues through this fall, Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc. is producing real-time data products for a precision farming technology project sponsored by NASA as part of the joint NASA/USDA/Grower project called Ag2020.
• Laser scientists take step towards making fusion energy a reality
  Researchers from the UK and Japan may have taken us one step further to the reality of fusion energy with a new answer to an old problem.
• REMOTE SENSING:
  NASA, University of Maryland, and Forest Service map out wildfires fast
  NASA's Terra satellite provides a view of fires across the entire United States, which helps fire experts manage fires more effectively, both during and after wildfire events.
• Boston University receives $500,000 grant to develop new IR imaging instrument
  The Los Angeles-based W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded Boston University's astronomy department a $500,000 grant to develop Mimir, a powerful, state-of-the-art, wide-field imaging spectrometer and polarimeter.
• Pixelated foil technology to be commercialized
  The Dutch company, Papyron, is set to commercialize a new technology for flexible displays based on pixelated foils. The firm's management believes the technology is ideal for mass production in the emerging market for flexible displays.
• Corning scientists win patent for new silica glass material
  The photomask material is designed for 157-nm microlithography.
• Thin-film photovoltaic-cell research to receive $40 million infusion
  The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL; Golden, CO) has announced the 19 universities and 14 companies expected to receive a total of $40 million in funding for research and development into thin-film photovoltaic cells.
• Researchers generate new approach to working with laser light
  A team of researchers in Boulder, Colo., has successfully combined extremely short pulses of light generated by two independent lasers into a single pulse of light. The researchers were able to synchronize two independent femtosecond lasers and phase-lock the respective electric fields underneath the pulse envelopes to generate a single pulse of light that exhibits the properties of both lasers simultaneously.
• Deep-space research discovers a detector boon for chip makers
  Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed an extremely sensitive and accurate infrared detector that can ferret out a misfiring transistor from the billions on today's Pentium and PowerPC chips.

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