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Laser Technology News 2004 p3:

• Fluid-core waveguides route light on a chip
  Santa Cruz, CA, October 20, 2004--Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have demonstrated integrated optical waveguides with fluid cores, a technology that enables light propagation through small volumes of fluids on a chip and that has a wide range of potential applications, including chemical and biological sensors with single-molecule sensitivity.
• Astronomer lauded for contributions to adaptive optics
  Santa Cruz, CA, October 6, 2004--The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the 2004 E. O. Lawrence Award in Physics to Claire Max, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
• Laser wakefield acceleration: channeling the best beams ever
  Berkeley, CA, October 1, 2004--Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have taken a giant step toward realizing the promise of laser wakefield acceleration, by guiding and controlling extremely intense laser beams over greater distances than ever before to produce high-quality, energetic electron beams.
• Researchers use semiconductors to set speed limit on light
  Berkeley, CA, September 29, 2004--In a nod to scientific paradox, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have slowed light down in an effort to speed up network communication.
• Foundation awards $2.38 million for supernova research
  Berkeley, CA, September 22, 2004--The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation of San Francisco has awarded $2,377,000 to the University of California at Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, in support of the Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory). The grant is intended to further dark energy research through the study and understanding of nearby Type Ia supernovae.
• Glass semiconductor softens with low-power laser, then re-hardens
  Columbus, Ohio, September 17, 2004--Scientists at Ohio State University have found that a special type of glass that is finding use in the electronics industry softens when exposed to very low-level laser light, and hardens back into its original condition when the light is switched off.
• One step closer to a quantum computer
  Tokyo, Japan, September 16, 2004--Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in collaboration with the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) have succeeded in flipping the supercurrent flow (quantum state transition) in one-, two-, and three-photon absorption processes by irradiating a superconducting flux qubit with resonant microwave photons.
• Researchers guide light on nanoscale
  Berkeley, CA, September 2, 2004-- Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated that semiconductor nanoribbons, single crystals measuring tens of hundreds of microns in length, but only a few hundred or less nanometers in width and thickness, can serve as optical waveguides.
• Saykally to receive Czech science medal
  Berkeley, CA, September 1, 2004--Richard Saykally, Class of 1932 Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California-Berkeley and Principal Investigator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will receive the Johannes Markus Marci Medal from the Czech Republic, honoring the 17th Century Czech physicist who first explained the origin of the rainbow, at the 18th Annual International Conference on High Resolution Spectroscopy in Prague later this month.
• Powerful SLED opens up new applications
  Singapore, August 31, 2004--A superluminescent light-emitting diode (SLED) developed by DenseLight Semiconductors emits 120 mW at 1550 nm, an order of magnitude greater than the output power of conventional SLEDs. The emitter thus becomes suitable for uses such as biomedical imaging and surveillance.

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