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Laser Technology News 2008 p8:

• 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.
• Piezoelectric actuators and sensors embedded in aircraft wings
  April 7, 2008, Paris, France--At the JEC Composites Show 2008 held in Paris last week, scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability demonstrated a structural health monitoring system based on the use of piezoelectric materials.
• Laser scanner lets car drive by itself
  April 4 2008, Sankt Augustin and Berlin, Germany--A car that navigates city streets without a driver--steered only by a computer? That might seem impossible to many. But researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS) and Freie Universitat Berlin presented such an automated vehicle at this year's Hannover Messe on April 21-25.
• Cell-phone microscope takes diagnostics into underserved communities
  April 3, 2008, Berkeley, CA--What began as a relatively simple class project in Prof. Dan Fletcher's undergraduate optics and microscopy course at the University of California at Berkeley has resulted in the development of a handheld microscopic imaging and transmission device that may have implications for healthcare in Third World, rural, and other underserved communities.
• Innovative atom trap catches highly magnetic atoms
  April 3, 2008, Gaithersburg, MD--Researches have used a single blue-shifted laser to cool and trap elusive erbium atoms.
• Teamwork yields highest operating temp for a terahertz quantum cascade laser
  April 2, 2008, Leeds, UK--A collaboration between the Universities of Leeds and Harvard is bringing a handheld terahertz device closer to reality.
• Selah Technologies licenses multiphoton fluorescence imaging technology from Clemson
  April 2, 2008, Greenville, SC--Selah Technologies, an advanced materials manufacturer, has signed a license agreement with Clemson University for a multiphoton imaging technology, strengthening the company's nano-enabled product set.

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