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Laser Technology News 2008 p5:

• Startup SUNRGI says it can produce electricity at a rate on par with fossil fuels
  April 29, 2008, Hollywood, CA--A new solar energy system from startup SUNRGI may soon make it possible to produce electricity at a wholesale cost of 5 cents per kWh (kilowatt hour). This price is competitive with the wholesale cost of producing electricity using fossil fuels and a fraction of the current cost of solar energy.
• New testing method analyzes processing in 3D
  April 24, 2008, Munich--The optical 3D measuring system, LensShape, speeds up manufacturing--on display this week at Hannover-Messe.
• Tiny lasers enable more-sensitive chemical detection
  April 23, 2008, Cambridge, MA--Federico Capasso and colleagues at Harvard University are developing a new type of infrared spectrometer that uses a tiny array of quantum cascade lasers on a chip instead of thermal sources to generate the infrared rays.
• University of Utah engineers guide terahertz waves towards far-infrared communications
  April 22, 2008, Salt Lake City, UT--University of Utah engineers took an early step toward building superfast computers that run on far-infrared light: They made the equivalent of wires that carried and bent this form of light, also known as terahertz radiation.
• Tunable metamaterial opens the door for terahertz in multiple applications
  April 16, 2008, Boston, MA--A frequency-agile metamaterial that for the first time can be tuned over a range of frequencies in the so-called "terahertz gap" has been engineered by a team of researchers from Boston College, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Boston University.
• MPQ scientists apply atomic laser cooling to mesoscopic systems
  April 15, 2008, Garching, Germany--Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have already succeeded in the damping of mechanical oscillations of a microresonator by applying the method of laser cooling which has been developed for single quantum particles. Now they have shown that even "resolved-sideband cooling"--a special kind of laser cooling--is applicable to an object consisting of about 10exp14 molecules.
• Femtosecond laser pulses trigger lightning strikes in thunderclouds
  April 14, 2008, Lyon, France and Socorro, NM--A team of European scientists has used high-power laser pulses to deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time, according to a paper in the latest issue of Optics Express.
• Rocket explosions explained with new imaging technique (video)
  April 11, 2008, Reno, NV--New imaging techniques demystify the cause of explosive sound waves that destroy rocket engines.
• Ultra Deep Survey witnesses formation of distant galaxies
  April 10, 2008, Belfast, Ireland--The Ultra Deep Survey of the sky will provide the most sensitive large-scale infrared map of the distant Universe ever undertaken.
• New laser technology could find Earth-like planets
  April 8, 2008, Cambridge, MA--The leading method of finding planets orbiting distant stars spots mostly Jupiter-sized worlds. But a laser technology being developed by scientists and engineers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), with colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will enable scientists to spot Earth-sized worlds in Earth-like orbits.

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