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Laser Technology News 2007 p8:

• Cellular reader has rollable display
  February 6, 2007, Rome, Italy and Eindhoven, The Netherlands--Telecom Italia and Polymer Vision will launch what they say is the world's first rollable-display-enabled mobile device, to be commercially launched in 2007.
• Ultrathin lens may boost resolution in miniature digital cameras
  February 1, 2007, San Diego, CA--Engineers at UC San Diego have built a powerful yet ultrathin digital camera by folding up the telephoto lens. This technology may yield lightweight, ultrathin, high resolution miniature cameras for unmanned surveillance aircraft, cell phones and infrared night vision applications.
• Intel demonstrates 30 Gbit/s silicon modulator
  January 24, 2006, Santa Clara, CA--Intel has unveiled a silicon-based optical modulator that operates at 30 Gbit/s. The device is intended as a component in on-chip photonics systems to transfer data at high speeds from chip to chip via optical fiber. These systems will also include hybrid lasers (already announced by Intel) and high-speed photodetectors.
• University of Twente develops self-cleaning 'lotus plastic'
  January 16, 2006, Enschede, The Netherlands--By using nature to inspire, scientists at the University of Twente have developed a self-cleaning surface that mimics the leaf of a lotus plant. The technology of the 'lotus plastic' surface--made possible by using an ultrafast femtosecond laser--will be detailed in the World News section of Laser Focus World magazine's March issue.
• Zinc oxide nanowires may offer cheaper LEDs
  January 3, 2007, San Diego, CA--Engineers at the University of California San Diego have synthesized a semiconducting material that may pave the way for an inexpensive new kind of light emitting diode (LED) that could compete with today's widely used gallium nitride LEDs, according to a new paper in the journal Nano Letters.
• Record-setting molecules could speed optical computing
  January 2, 2007, Pullman, WA, Leuven, Belgium, and Beijing, China--The internet could soon shift into overdrive thanks to a new generation of optical molecules developed and tested by a team of researchers from Washington State University, the University of Leuven in Belgium, and the Chinese Academy of Science in China. The new materials--organic molecules known as chromophores--interact more strongly with light than any molecules ever tested.
• Exoplanet-seeking spacecraft launches; e2v sensors hitch a ride
  January 2, 2007, Baikonur Spaceport, Kazakhstan--COROT (Convection Rotation and planetary Transits), a space telescope designed to detect exoplanets orbiting around other stars, as well as to probe stellar interiors, launched on December 27 of last year.

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