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Transparent ceramic suits high-energy laser systems
02/10/2012
Unlike fused silica and oxyfluoride glasses that cannot survive in some harsh environments, a new transparent ceramic for high-energy laser (HEL) systems developed at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NR) can withstand impact f...
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Night vision ClipIR contract won by Thermoteknix Systems
02/10/2012
Cambridge, England--The UK Ministry of Defence awarded a contract to Thermoteknix Systems to supply 180 of their ClipIR Small Thermal Imager Clip On devices. |
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Stacked CMOS image sensor from Sony improves on conventional back-illuminated designs
02/10/2012
Tokyo, Japan--A new stacked CMOS architecture that layers pixels and circuits has been developed by Sony for improved performance and smaller size. |
Plessey acquires CamGaN to commercialize gallium-nitride-on-silicon LEDs
02/09/2012
Plymouth, England--To commercialize new technologies for the growth of GaN HB LEDs on large-area silicon substrates, Plessey Semiconductors has acquired CamGaN. |
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Soraa launches first product, a white GaN-based LED spotlight lamp
02/09/2012
Fremont, CA--Soraa, a company that specializes in gallium nitride (GaN)-based light emitters and was founded by blue-LED pioneer Shuji Nakamura and others, has announced its first product: a single-emitter white-LED spotlight d...
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Slow-light lidar scans independently in two dimensions
02/09/2012
Researchers from the University of Rochester and the University of Ottawa who had previously demonstrated the one-dimensional (1D) steering of a lidar beam using slow light have now used two independent slow-light mechanisms to...
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VCSELs - Technology and Applications
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The laser -- its past, present, and future
Invented a half-century ago, the laser was first thought of as "a solution without a problem." However, the effectiveness of coherent light as a to...
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OCT: noninvasive imaging for many purposes
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