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Laser Technology News 2004 p4:

• U.S. Army THEL shoots down mortar rounds
  Redondo Beach, CA, August 30, 2004--The Tactical High Energy Laser, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation for the U.S. Army, shot down multiple mortar rounds Aug. 24, demonstrating that laser weapons could be applied on the battlefield to protect against common threats.
• The fastest stopwatch in the world
  Garching, Germany, August 27, 2004--A German-Austrian research team has presented a method of measuring times in the region of a few hundred attoseconds to allow observation of atomic processes on this time scale.
• Scientists report first observation of an "Atomic Air Force"
  Boulder, CO, August 20, 2004--The first sighting of atoms flying in formation has been reported by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder in the Aug. 13 issue of Physical Review Letters. While the Air Force and geese prefer a classic "V," the strontium atoms choreographed in this experiment with precision laser pulses were recorded flying in the shape of a cube.
• Nanotechnology to supercharge internet
  Toronto, Canada, August 12, 2004--Canadian researchers have shown that nanotechnology can be used to pave the way to a supercharged internet based entirely on light. The discovery could lead to a network 100 times faster than today's.
• NASA/MIT collaborate on Earth-Mars laser-based communication
  Greenbelt, MD, August 9, 2004--A NASA MIT Lincoln Laboratory team is working to forge the first laser communication link between Mars and Earth. This unique experiment, part of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration, is expected to greatly benefit the transmission of data from robotic spacecraft.
• Free-electron laser reaches 10-kW output
  Newport News, VA, August 3, 2004--The free-electron laser (FEL) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Jefferson National Accelerator Facility reached an IR laser output of 10 kW in late July, making it the most powerful tunable laser in the world.
• Single-photon emission achieved at telecom wavelengths
  Tokyo, Japan, July 20, 2004--The University of Tokyo's Nanoelectronics Collaborative Research Center and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced the joint development of technologies that generate and measure single photons, succeeding in observing the world's first emission of single-photons at data-transmission wavelengths. The technologies are a major step toward the practical application of quantum-encryption data transmission.
• Cymer unveils immersion-lithography light source at Semicon West
  San Francisco, CA, July 13, 2004--At Semicon West (held July 12 to 14, 2004 at the Moscone Center), Cymer Inc. (San Diego, CA), which supplies deep-ultraviolet light sources used in semiconductor manufacturing, unveiled what the company claims is the world's first excimer light source designed to support 45-nm immersion photolithography applications.
• NIST report sees bright future for LIDAR
  Gaithersburg, MD, July 5, 2004--A new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report predicts "tremendous" applications for laser scanning devices, also known as LIDAR (for Laser Detection and Ranging) and argues for a vigorous effort to create next-generation LIDAR.
• Control systems projected to boost color printing
  Boston, MA, July 2, 2004--Just as electronic engine control systems produced radical performance improvements in automobiles, two Xerox Corporation (Stamford, CT) scientists believe that digital color printing will reap similar advantages from the even more advanced control system technologies now being implemented.

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