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BUSINESS FORUM: Making mentorship work is mutually beneficial 10/12/2012 How much has your career benefited from having mentors?
	TERAHERTZ OPTICS: How to choose the best terahertz or infrared bandpass filter for your application 10/11/2012 By understanding the parameters that affect system performance of terahertz and infrared bandpass filters including application and environmental conditions, filter types, and physical phenomena that cause particular filtering ...
	Edmund Optics expands manufacturing, plans new thin-films lab 10/11/2012 Barrington, NJ--Optical-components provider Edmund Optics (EO) plans to expand its coating and asphere manufacturing operations.
	FIBER-OPTICS: Single multimode fiber is imager for in vivo applications 10/11/2012 Researchers at the University of St. Andrews have shown for the first time how to unscramble highly disordered images sent down single multimode fibers, making for the narrowest image-guiding system ever.
	NOVEL CAMERAS: Polarization difference imaging camera reveals ‘unseen’ features 10/11/2012
	Frontiers in Optics 2012: Green laser pointer detects explosives 10/11/2012 Washington, DC--FiO 2012 will include a presentation on a highly portable Raman spectrometer that detects hazardous chemicals by using a green laser pointer.
	Multilayer photonic gel detects substances via color change 10/10/2012 Houston, TX--An inexpensive gel-based metamaterial developed by researchers at Rice University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA), when exposed to ions in a solution or in the environment, changes col...
	SPECTROSCOPY: Femtosecond laser measures atmospheric-radical traces in Antarctica 10/10/2012 A femtosecond laser was part of a recent successful study at a French Antarctic base to measure key trace molecular species—iodine monoxide (IO) and bromine monoxide (BrO)—at the parts per trillion per volume (pptv) level by op...
	PLASMONICS: Plasmonics enters practical WDM switching applications 10/10/2012 The combined efforts of members of PLATON—the European Union 7th Framework Programme Collaborative Project, funded since January 2010, that aims to put “plasmonics ‘in-the-box’” and make plasmonic interconnects real through a m...
	DIRECTED-ENERGY WEAPONS: Testing sets pace for solid-state laser weapons 10/10/2012 Development of tactical solid-state laser weapons is settling into a slow but steady mode aimed at producing usable mobile systems in a few years.
	Frontiers in Optics 2012: Contact lenses could cure myopia 10/09/2012 Washington, DC--SUNY researchers will present a special contact lens at Frontiers in Optics 2012 that could cure myopia or nearsightedness in children.
	Black-silicon solar cells capture infrared at double efficiency 10/09/2012 Berlin, Germany--Photovoltaic (PV) solar cells convert three-quarters of the energy contained in the Sun‘s spectrum into electricity,yet the IR spectrum is entirely lost in standard PV cells.
Periodically oriented GaN shows feasibility for mid-IR nonlinear optics 10/09/2012 Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory are creating useful mid-IR nonlinear optical devices by alternating the actual crystal orientation of the semiconducting nonlinear material to create potentially useful structures...
	Down-draw process fabricates ultrathin glass 10/09/2012 Scientists at Schott AG have developed a down-draw process that moves molten glass using a nozzle and roller system into an ultrathin glass sheet, in much the same way that optical fibers are drawn from a glass preform.
	Yb:LuAG laser ceramic has efficient heat removal at high dopant concentrations 10/09/2012 A group at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) has fabricated laser ceramics of Yb-doped lutetium yttrium aluminum garnet (Yb:LuAG) using a solid-state reactive sintering method, producing an almost pore-free microstru...
	3D photonic crystals for telecom are built from 2D templates 10/08/2012 Karlsruhe, Germany--Silicon photonic crystals for use in telecom devices are being made into 3D structures from 2D templates by researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain, Belgiu...
Is quantum-dot lifetime adequate for TV applications? 10/08/2012 Based on input from Nanosys via Ken Werner of Display Central, quantum-dot lifetime is indeed good enough for consumer television.
Inrad Optics awarded Phase II SBIR for stilbene production for neutron detection 10/08/2012 Northvale, NJ--Inrad Optics was awarded a $1M Phase II SBIR by the U.S. DHS to support development and industrial production of the organic crystal stilbene for neutron detection.
	Photovoltaics from any semiconductor? Yes 10/05/2012 University of California–Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) researchers have developed a technology that could turn any semiconductor material into a photovoltaic (PV) device, in effect putting bad (and p...
	Liquid-crystal material has large birefringence for terahertz radiation 10/05/2012 A group at Nanjing University and Tsinghua University in China is using a fluorinated phenyl-tolane-based nematic liquid crystal (LC) mixture between two thin fused silica plates (rubbed for LC orientation) as a birefringent ma...
IDEX Optics & Photonics' Michael Cumbo to speak at OSA session 10/05/2012 Rochester, NY--IDEX Optics & Photonics (IOP) president Michael J. Cumbo, Ph.D., will participate in the next OSA Executive Speaker Series session in Rochester on October 16, 2012.
Peppertree Engineering, Oxide Corporation form partnership 10/05/2012 Mountain View, CA--Optical solutions developer Peppertree Engineering has partnered with optical device maker Oxide Corporation.
	Semiconductor etching both performed and monitored with new U. of I. process 10/05/2012 Champaign, IL--A new low-cost method from U. of I. researchers carves delicate features onto semiconductor wafers using light, and then watches the process as it happens.
	Frontiers in Optics 2012: Weak measurements on photons push past Heisenberg's precision limit 10/04/2012 Toronto, ON, Canada--Researchers at the University of Toronto have gathered the most direct experimental evidence yet that Werner Heisenberg's original formulation of his uncertainty principle is wrong.
Zeiss, Philips, and Samsung Ventures to headline Invest in Photonics 2012 10/04/2012 Bordeaux, France--The third Invest in Photonics 2012 event, a two-day international business partnering convention focused on photonics venture capital (VC) investment, will take place December 12 and 13, 2012, in Bordeaux.