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Laser Technology News 2005 p9:

• Laser display industry comments on airplane safety
  January 17, 2005, Portland, OR--The recent wave of reports of US aircraft illuminated by lasers highlights the need for the public and safety officials to better understand laser technology.
• IR-sensitive nanomaterial could lead to 30%-efficiency solar cell
  January 14, 2005, Toronto, Canada--Researchers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have invented an infrared-sensitive nanomaterial that is reported to be the world's first solution-processed photovoltaic in the infrared.
• Keck laser guide star captures view of colliding galaxies
  January 13, 2005, Santa Cruz, CA--For the first time, astronomers have been able to combine the deepest optical images of the universe, obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope, with equally sharp images in the near-infrared part of the spectrum using a sophisticated new laser guide star system for adaptive optics at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
• LANL quantum-dot technology available for licensing
  January 11, 2005, Los Alamos, NM--Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is making its semiconductor quantum-dot technology available for commercial licensing. The LANL quantum-dot portfolio includes the use of quantum dots for a broad range of applications including lighting, solar energy, lasers, and coatings.
• Intel researchers announce first silicon laser on a chip
  January 7, 2005, Santa Clara, CA--Intel researchers have reported an experimental demonstration of Raman lasing in a compact, all-silicon waveguide cavity on a single silicon chip. The findings are to be published in an upcoming 2005 issue of Nature magazine.

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