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Laser Technology News 2006 p2:

• Scientists capture nanoscale images with X-ray laser
  November 13, 2006, Livermore, CA--Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) for the first time have validated the idea of using extremely short and intense X-ray pulses to capture images of objects such as proteins before the X-rays destroy the sample.
• Free Electron Laser exceeds 14 kW in the infrared
  November 9, 2006, Newport News, VA--The Free-Electron Laser (FEL), located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), produced a 14.2 kilowatt (kW) beam of laser light at an infrared wavelength of 1.61 microns on October 30.
• e2v sensors to snap 3-D pictures of the Sun
  October 24, 2006, Chelmsford, England--Due for launch on 25 October, NASA's STEREO mission will use image sensors from e2v to capture detailed pictures of the Sun. The resulting three-dimensional (3-D) snaps will provide a world-first view of the Sun-Earth relationship from sideways on, and will also help to predict when space weather events will affect the Earth.
• 20 Gb/s multimode optical receivers characterize 980-nm VCSELs
  October 23, 2006, Ewing, NJ--Discovery Semiconductors--manufacturers of ultrafast InGaAs photodetectors and custom products for applications ranging from analog RF links to ultrafast digital communications--has provided 25-GHz multimode photodiodes to the Technical University of Berlin for their research on directly modulated 980-nm lasers.
• IMEC demonstrates double patterning immersion litho for 32nm node
  October 19, 2006, Leuven, Belgium--IMEC in collaboration with ASML (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) has demonstrated the potential of double patterning 193 nm immersion lithography at 1.2 NA to create 32 nm node Flash memory and logic circuits. These results indicate that double patterning might offer an intermediate solution before extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography and very high NA (beyond water) 193 nm immersion lithography will be ready for production.
• Northrop Grumman illuminator laser lights up in a big way
  October 13, 2006, Redondo Beach, CA--A high-power pulsed diode-pumped solid-state illuminator laser developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation met all technical performance requirements, according to the company. The multikilowatt laser is one essential component of high-energy air and space laser-weapon systems under development.
• UCF researchers demonstrate new EUV source
  October 12, 2006, Orlando, FL--A University of Central Florida research team has made a substantial inroad toward establishing extreme ultraviolet light (EUV) as a primary power source for manufacturing the next generation of computer chips.
• OHSU professor says refractive surgery safer than contacts
  October 11, 2006, Portland, OR--Comparing data from several recent studies, an Oregon Health & Science University Casey Eye Institute professor and physician has found that laser surgery is safer than contact lenses to correct vision problems.
• George Smoot and John Mather share Nobel Prize in Physics
  October 5, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden--The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to John C. Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD) and George F. Smoot, University of California (Berkeley, CA) "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".
• TTP LabTech launches triple laser microplate cytometer
  October 2, 2006, Cambridge, England--TTP LabTech initiated the second generation of high content screening systems with the launch of a triple-laser microplate cytometer.

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