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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Photonics leader helps students achieve their goals
Milton Chang is admired for his leadership in science, business, and nonprofit arenas. But the tremendous gene...
BEAM CHARACTERIZATION: Camera-based sensors characterize laser beams
Because scientific applications of lasers often push the aser to its operational limits, continuous or periodi...
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: OSA grassroots education outreach continues to thrive
The 2008 Optical Society of America activity-grant program has awarded grants to student chapters and local se...
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PHOTONICS INDUSTRY NEWS

The OSA and New Focus announce OSA-New Focus/Bookham Student Award finalists
May 6, 2008, Washington, DC--The Optical Society of America (OSA) and New Focus, a Bookham brand, annou...
PhAST/Laser Focus World Innovation Award goes to Coherent
May 2, 2008, Washington, DC--The Photonic Applications, Systems and Technologies (PhAST) Confere...
NASA selects Kopin for solar cell development contract
May 2, 2008, Taunton, MA--Kopin has been selected for the award of a $600,000 solar cell development c...
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Product Highlights

Coherent introduces first fiber-based high-power picosecond laser for industrial applications
May 8, 2007, San Jose, CA--At CLEO, Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) launched their first fiber-based l...
Bookham acquires laser controller from Precision Photonics for New Focus product line
May 5, 2008, San Jose, CA--Bookham has acquired the LB1005 High-Speed Servo Controller product line fro...
Corning introduces new ruggedized industrial fiber
March 27, 2008, Corning, NY--Corning single-mode and multimode polyimide-coated fibers are specifically...
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Technology News

New ultrafast laser aids astronomers in search for outlying planets
May 5, 2008, San Jose, CA--Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institu...
New coupler technology could assist in enabling tomorrow's silicon photonics
May 1, 2008, Pine Brook, NJ--Chiral Photonics has announced an advancement in using tapered coupler ins...
Raydiance achieves record pulse energy for femtosecond fiber laser
April 30, 2008, Orlando, FL--Raydiance has demonstrated the highest pulse energy ever achieved in a fib...
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