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Laser Technology News 2005 p2:

• Magnetic fields revealed in technicolor
  November 18, 2005, Manchester, United Kingdom--Images of induced magnetic pulsations at the frequency of visible light have been captured on camera by scientists at The University of Manchester revealing a rainbow of colors, as reported yesterday in Nature.
• UCSB researchers develop hybrid silicon evanescent laser
  November 16, 2005, Santa Barbara, CA--Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have developed a novel laser by bonding optical gain layers directly to a silicon laser cavity. The hybrid laser offers an alternative to silicon Raman lasers and is an order of magnitude shorter. The laser is optically pumped, operates in continuous wave mode, and only needs 30 mW of input pump power.
• CEYX and Vitesse improve laser control
  November 11, 2005, San Diego, CA and Camarillo, CA--CEYX Technologies and Vitesse Semiconductor introduced a new laser bias and control technology for optical transceivers that improves laser accuracy, extends laser life and lowers operating costs. The new technology incorporates CEYX's new LightSmart Control System implemented with the Vitesse 10 Gbps Laser Driver IC family.
• South African President Thabo Mbeki inaugurates SALT
  November 10, 2005, Sutherland, Northern Cape, South Africa--South African President Thabo Mbeki is scheduled to inaugurate the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) today at the South African Astronomical Observatory.
• Laser weapons to protect aircraft and control crowds
  November 9, 2005, Kirtland Air Force Base, NM--The Directed Energy Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory is developing two non-lethal laser weapons with applications ranging from protecting military aircraft to controlling hostile crowds.
• Northrop Grumman laser exceeds military program requirements
  November 9, 2005, Redondo Beach, CA--A high-energy, solid-state laser developed by Northrop Grumman for the U.S. military has fired one of the most powerful beams yet produced by an electric laser of more than 27 kW with a run time of 350 seconds.
• Xloom releases 30-Gbps optical interconnect
  November 8, 2005, Sunnyvale, CA--XLoom Communications, a developer of chip-scale optoelectronic interconnects, announced the availability of InfiniFlame 12X. According to Xloom, InfiniFlame is the first front-panel pluggable optical module for interconnecting High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters for InfiniBand networks.
• DPSS laser improves crime scene investigations
  November 7, 2005, Irvine, CA--Newport Corporation has introduced Reveal, the first portable, continuous wave (CW), diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser-based solution designed to significantly improve crime scene investigation.
• IBM scientists slow light, and control it, in silicon
  November 4, 2005, Yorktown Heights, NY--Using a silicon photonic-crystal waveguide, IBM researchers have slowed light down to less than 1/300th of its usual speed. In addition, the speed of light within the device can be varied over a wide range by varying an electrical voltage applied to the waveguide. These achievements may both greatly benefit the nascent field of silicon photonics, potentially leading to large improvements in the performance of computers and other electronic systems.
• Stanford makes ultrafast modulator
  October 28, 2005, Stanford, CA--The dream of all-optical computing using a silicon platform is now much closer to reality, thanks to new research at Stanford University being announced in the Oct. 27 issue of the journal Nature. The researchers have invented a tiny modulator made of silicon and germanium--a solid-state shutter--that can turn a beam of light into a stream of digital data by selectively absorbing the beam (a zero) or allowing it to continue on (a one).

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