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Laser Technology News 2007 p7:

• Lasers and tubing improve Raman signal when measuring biological fluids
  April 6, 2007, Rochester, NY--University of Rochester researchers announce in the current issue of Applied Optics a Raman spectroscopy technique that in 60 sec or less measures multiple chemicals in body fluids, using a laser, white light, and a reflective tube.
• World's main standard for laser classification and safety updated
  April 6, 2007, Geneva, Switzerland--The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has just issued a revised edition of the world's main standard for laser classification and safety.
• German-Austrian-Dutch team observes electron tunnelling for the first time
  April 5, 2007, Garching, Germany--By drawing on newly developed tools of attosecond metrology, a German-Austrian-Dutch collaboration, led by Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute of Quanum Optics, has observed electrons in real time as they tunnel through the potential binding them to the atomic core under the influence of laser light (Nature, April 5, 2007) .
• Max Planck researchers develop single-photon server
  March 20, 2007, Garching, Germany--Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have succeeded in turning a Rubidium atom into a single-photon server. The research appears in Nature Physics 569, "A Single-Photon Server with Just One Atom," published online March 11, 2007.
• Attosecond research project to target 'photonic computers'
  March 19, 2007, Bath, England--An £820,000 research project could be an important step in bringing the dream of "photonic computers" onto the desktop.
• Luxtera fabricates silicon-photonics photodetectors on standard SOI-CMOS wafers
  March 16, 2007, Carlsbad, CA--Adding to its silicon-photonics technology portfolio, Luxtera has developed a germanium-enabled integrated photodetector fabricated on a mainstream SOI (silicon on insulator) CMOS wafer using standard processes.
• Researchers create 'ideal' anti-reflection coating
  March 5, 2007, Troy, NY--A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created the world's first material that reflects virtually no light.
• Handheld "T-ray" device earns new $30,000 student prize
  February 26, 2007, Troy, NY--"T-rays" have been touted as the next breakthrough in sensing and imaging, but the need for bulky equipment has been an obstacle to reaching the field's potential. Enter Brian Schulkin, winner of the first-ever $30,000 Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize. Schulkin has invented an ultralight, handheld terahertz spectrometer -- an advance that could help catapult T-ray technology from the lab bench to the marketplace.
• NIST creates 2-D images of a frequency comb
  February 16, 2007, Boulder, CO--Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made the results of laser frequency-comb experiments easier to visualize by directing each of the millions of different wavelengths in the comb to a unique spot in a 2-D array, which is then imaged.
• High index contrast subwavelength grating produces super thin mirror
  February 15, 2007, Berkeley, CA--Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a new high-performance mirror that could dramatically improve the design and efficiency of the next generation of devices relying upon laser optics, including high-definition DVD players, computer circuits and laser printers.

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