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Rotary actuator for laser scanners lowers costs by one third

05/18/2012

Orlando, FL--Pangolin Laser Systems introduced a low-power rotary actuator based on a dual-coil, segmented stator design that lowers laser scanning costs.

NLT Technologies has developed a new autostereoscopic multiview display

NLT Technologies introduces no-glasses multi-view 2D/3D display

05/17/2012

Kawasaki, Japan--NLT Technologies (NLT) has developed a new autostereoscopic multiview display based on the company's HxDP (Horizontally x times-Density Pixels) technology.

Rochester Precision Optics launches ASE Optics Europe

05/17/2012 Rochester, NY-–Rochester Precision Optics (RPO) and subsidiary ASE Optics have launched ASE Optics Europe to strength its presence with European customers. ASE Optics Europe provides optical engineering and design for technolog...
Under green fluorescent light, microtubuli (shown) and other cell structures can be observed in living fish embryos

Microscopy method peers into cell structures of living fish

05/17/2012 Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, and the American National Institutes of Health have developed a new microscopy method to visualize cell structures measuring...

Quantum dot based chemical sensors are safer, smaller, more sensitive

05/16/2012

Giessen, Germany--European Union funded researchers have developed an optical chemical sensor that is safer, easier to install and much more sensitive than most existing chemical sensors.

Photoacoustic imaging benefits from integrated laser-OPO system

05/16/2012

Santa Clara, CA--AlphaScan is a compact integrated optical parametric oscillator (OPO) and pump laser that outputs high energies in the near-infrared (NIR) for photoacoustic imaging.

Photon Focus Blog

Looking for a laser market analyst

Strategies Unlimited is seeking a senior analyst to cover the laser, LED, and photonics markets. This demanding position will be responsible for collecting data on all critical market areas, and... Read More

Wearable photonics you can create and live by

Featured in our April issue of Laser Focus World is an article from Philips Research (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) entitled "WEARABLE PHOTONICS: Smart photonic textiles begin to weave their magic... Read More

Photonics shows strength in Shanghai

Since first opening in 2006, LASER World of Photonics China has established itself as the leading lasers and optics tradeshow in China. It was very clear to me how energized the exhibitors and a... Read More

Laser and Photonics Webcasts

On Demand Webcasts

Fundamentals of Ion Beam Sputtering for Optical Coatings

This webcast will provide an introduction to ion beam sputtering, how it works and why it is important to the needs of the optics industry.  A review of...

Fundamentals of Miniature Spectrometers

In this one hour instructional webinar, we will discuss the fundamentals of modular spectrometers and how they have evolved into a modern spectroscopic tool.

Optical Coating Performance in Systems

Angus Macleod of the Thin Film Center Inc (Tucson, AZ) who explains in this live Web event that in order to deal effectively with such effects they must be u...

Laser and Photonics Technical Digests

The laser -- its past, present, and future

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...

Photonics Building Blocks Blog

Jeff Hecht

Jeff Hecht decodes and explains the acronyms used in photonics—and tries to make them just a bit easier to understand.

EUV/XUV - ACRONYM

EUV or XUV:  Extreme Ultraviolet, the short-wavelength or high-energy end of the ultraviolet spectrum, from 120 (or 200) nanometers to about 10 nanometers (nm). Atmospheric transmission in the ultraviolet decreases sh...

FIR - ACRONYM

FIR - Far InfraRed, the long-wavelength end of the infrared spectrum. As is typical of infrared bands, definitions vary.When Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes proposed extending the maser principle to frequencies well abo...

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