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Laser Technology News 2007 p3:

• MIT researchers developing 'smart' optical micromachines
  November 7, 2007, Cambridge, MA--A new theory developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could lead to optical microchips that adapt to different wavelengths of light, potentially advancing telecommunications, spectroscopy, and remote sensing.
• Laser scalpels interact with tissue in surprising ways
  November 1, 2007, Nashville, TN--Researchers have found surprise dynamics in the interactions between certain kinds of lasers and tissue.
• New imaging technique may help profile rheumatoid arthritis sufferers
  November 1, 2007, Enschede, the Netherlands--Reasearchers can quickly profile auto-antibodies in the blood of rhematic patients using a new imaging technique.
• Boston Micromachines partners with Indiana University to develop adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope
  October 31, 2007, Watertown, MA--Boston Micromachines, a provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror products for adaptive optics systems, has been awarded a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
• Gel that changes color 'on demand' could be next-generation chemical sensor
  October 29, 2007, Cambridge, MA--MIT researchers have created a new structured gel that can rapidly change color in response to a variety of stimuli, including temperature, pressure, salt concentration, and humidity.
• Optical scientist honored for using adaptive optics to improve eye imaging
  October 26, 2007, Rochester, NY--David R. Williams, William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics and director of the University of Rochester's Center for Visual Science, has won the 2007 Alfred W. Bressler Prize in Vision Science, awarded each year by the Jewish Guild for the Blind.
• Carbon-walled nanotubes enhance polymer luminescence
  October 25, 2007, Guildford, Surrey, England--A 100-fold increase in light emission from organic films has been demonstrated by researchers at the University of Surrey using the excitation-energy transfer of carbon-walled nanotubes.
• Harvard researchers create quantum cascade laser nanoantenna
  October 23, 2007, Cambridge, MA--In a major feat of nanotechnology engineers from Harvard University have demonstrated a quantum cascade laser nanoantenna they say is capable of resolving the chemical composition of samples, such as the interior of a cell, with unprecedented detail.
• New quantum dot transistor counts individual photons
  October 16, 2007, Boulder, CO--A transistor containing quantum dots that can count individual photons has been designed and demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The semiconductor device could be integrated easily into electronics and may be able to operate at higher temperatures than other single-photon detectors--practical advantages for applications such as quantum key distribution (QKD) for "unbreakable" encryption using single photons.
• Classical light bending predicts nanoscale wave behavior
  October 11, 2007, Atlanta, GA--Physicists have found a new way to predict the behavior of nanoscale evanescent waves using classical electrodynamics.

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