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Laser Technology News 2007 p1:

• EU-funded Uranus project showcases advances in fiber lasers
  December 26, 2007, Brussels, Belgium--A new generation of ultrafast fiber lasers being developed in Europe is creating more uses for the beams of high-intensity light, while lowering production and maintenance costs and increasing efficiency.
• Hinode begets new insights on the origin of solar wind
  December 20, 2007, United States, Japan, and Europe--VIDEO--Spectacular images and data from the Hinode mission have shed new light on the Sun's magnetic field and the origins of solar wind
• Laser Doppler technique improves burn-injury assessment
  December 17, 2007, Enschede, The Netherlands--The perfusion of a burn injury can now be rapidly determined by using a new ultrafast-laser-based technique developed by scientists at the University of Twente.
• Light and sound improve medical imaging
  December 13, 2007, London--An innovative imaging system uses light and sound to detect and treat tumors.
• IPG Photonics reports thick-plate welding results with 20-kW fiber laser
  December 12, 2007, Dublin, Ireland--IPG Photonics announced that its application center in Germany achieved record high-quality deep-penetration welding on thick stainless steel plates at rapid speeds.
• Light is shed on new fiber's potential to change technology
  December 12, 2007, Bath, UK--Photonic crystal fiber's ability to create broad spectra of light has been explained for the first time, thanks to research conducted at the University of Bath.
• NASA mega-telescope gears up to study cosmos
  December 11, 2007, Pasadena, CA--The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected three teams of scientists to begin studying disks of dust around nearby stars starting in February 2008, using the Keck Interferometer in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. This sophisticated new system combines the observing power of the two large Keck telescopes into a single mega-telescope.
• Ultrafast optical shutter is switched entirely by laser light
  December 10, 2007, Nashville, TN--Researchers from Vanderbilt University and the University of Konstanz (Konstanz, Germany) report that a near-infrared laser can be used to switch a film of vanadium dioxide back and forth between reflective and transparent states without heating or cooling it.
• Laser technology used to analyze combustion in biofuels
  December 6, 2007, Aimes, IA--Iowa State University engineers are using high-speed lasers to analyze the biofuel combustion.
• UV light sculpts 3-D microparticles
  December 3, 2007, Cambridge, MA--Engineers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have used ultraviolet light to sculpt three-dimensional microparticles that could have many applications in medical diagnostics and tissue engineering.

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