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Laser Technology News 2001 p7:

• UA scientists to develop eyeglasses with built-in autofocus
  Tests for electroactive materials for new, revolutionary eyeglasses are underway at the University of Arizona's Optical Sciences Center.
• New atomic clock could be 1000 times better than today's best
  Today's international time and frequency standards, such as NIST-F1, measure an atomic resonance of about 9 billion cycles per second. By contrast, a new NIST device monitors an optical frequency more than 100,000 times higher or about 1 quadrillion cycles per second.
• NIST Uncovers Potential Problem for Semiconductor Lithography
  Guess what? It's optics related.
• Sandia sets new standard for scientific visualizations
  A 10-foot-high, 13-foot-wide screen that makes high-definition television look as grainy as an old TV in a cheap motel has been unveiled by Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM). The facility's digitized images, created of 20 million pixels, approach the visual acuity of the eye itself.
• Laser-guided Star Facility demands beam point stability
  The artificial-star reference system destined for the ESO's Very Large Telescope 34-in. YEPUN telescope at Chile's Paranal Observatory relies on a high-power beam delivery system developed by British laser-systems manufacturer Point Source.
• All-optical technique produces Bose-Einstein condensates
  Georgia Tech physicists have demonstrated the first all-optical technique for producing Bose-Einstein condensates--producing a form of matter in which atoms cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero stop their normal motion and enter a single quantum state in which all atoms behave identically.
• IR spectroscopy to map comet's nucleus composition
  Instruments aboard a spacecraft to be launched next year to explore two, and perhaps three or more, comets in the solar system will for the first time provide a “fingerprint” of the surface of cometary nuclei, giving the first firm evidence of the composition of the icy, rocky objects.
• Widespread oceanic photopigments convert light into energy
  A new energy-generating, light-absorbing pigment called proteorhodopsin is widespread in the world's oceans, say scientists affiliated with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
• Ultrafast laser offers high precision for cutting corneal flap
  Researchers have developed a procedure for using an ultrafast laser to make clean, high-precision surgical cuts in the human cornea.
• Laser/X-ray experiment plumbs secrets of nitric oxide
  Researchers at the University of Buffalo (UB; Buffalo, NY) are using a novel technique called photocrystallography to investigate how nitric oxide (NO) bonds to metal atoms.

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