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Stuart Cohen appointed U.S. sales manager of Xenics
08/02/2012
Leuven, Belgium -- European developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared detectors and imaging solutions, Xenics, has appointed Stuart Cohen as new sales manager at Xenics USA, Inc.
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SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS: Green laser diode emits at 536 nm
08/02/2012
A team from Sumitomo and the Advanced Materials Laboratory of Sony reports diodes emitting more than 100 mW continuous-wave (CW) at wavelengths beyond 532 nm, and CW emission of unspecified power at 536.6 nm. |
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ENDOSCOPY: Dual-wavelength method brings zoom capability to microendoscopy
08/02/2012
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a clever dual-modality 9X zoom optical endoscope with no moving parts that will significantly expand the usefulness of microendoscopy. |
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Panasonic creates efficient nitride-semiconductor-based artificial photosynthesis
08/01/2012
Osaka, Japan--Panasonic has developed an artificial photosynthesis system that uses a nitride semiconductor to convert carbon dioxide to organic materials by illuminating with sunlight at a world's highest efficiency for a phot...
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MICRO-OPTICS: Stack-and-draw produces nanostructured lenses
08/01/2012
A stack-and-draw process for fabricating nanostructured micro-optics developed by engineers at Heriot-Watt University and the Institute of Electronic Materials Technology is pointing the way to low-cost manufacture of microlens...
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ULTRAFAST LASERS: Few-cycle pulses create intense attosecond bursts
08/01/2012
A pan-European team of researchers has succeeded in creating isolated attosecond pulses with unprecedented intensity. |
FIBER LASERS: Swept fiber laser uses dispersion tuning to target OCT imaging
08/01/2012
A fast and wide-wavelength swept fiber laser based on dispersion tuning sweeps the wavelength without using wavelength-tunable filters. This enables a 200 kHz sweep rate over a 140 nm range and offers tremendous potential for o...
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FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS: SWIR InGaAs FPA enables photon emission failure analysis
08/01/2012
Cooled, very sensitive detectors are critical for low-light-level measurements in spectroscopy, fluorescence imaging, and photon emission measurements, including semiconductor failure analysis. |
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WIDEBAND IR OPTICS: Plasmonic perfect light absorber has a wide IR spectral band
08/01/2012
By multiplexing two or more plasmon-resonance perfect-absorber structures together, wideband performance in the infrared is achieved. |
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PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS: New designs expand capabilities of quantum-cascade lasers
08/01/2012
Advances include watts of power and wall-plug efficiency above 20% at room temperature, shorter wavelengths, narrowband output, and new competition from interband cascade lasers. |
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OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION: Holmium-doped silica fiber designs extend fiber lasers beyond 2 µm
08/01/2012
A 140 W, 2.13 µm mid-infrared (mid-IR) fiber laser operating with 60% slope efficiency is possible using holmium-doped silica fibers operating at the long-wavelength limit of silica optical fiber transmission. |
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PHOTONICS APPLIED: BIOPHOTONICS: Gradient field microscopy allows label-free disease diagnosis
08/01/2012
Intrinsic contrast methods that rely on the passage of light through a transparent sample promise to change clinical pathology as we know it. Without requiring labels such as fluorescent dyes, these are valuable techniques due ...
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Antidote to short-term thinking
08/01/2012
Uncertainty and turmoil in global markets is raising economic concerns, but for investors in and members of the photonics community the long-term value of photonics remains clear. |
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FEI purchases Visualization Sciences Group
08/01/2012
Hillsboro, OR -- Provider of imaging and analysis systems for research and industry, FEI, announced that it has acquired Visualization Sciences Group (VSG) of Bordeaux, France.
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Northrop Grumman demos 850 GHz integrated receiver circuit aiming at terahertz photonics
07/31/2012
Redondo Beach, CA--Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has demonstrated an 850 gigahertz (GHz) integrated receiver that could benefit high-resolution terahertz imaging and spectroscopy. |
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Rayvel awarded during SBIR & Global Trade Summit
07/31/2012
Montville, CT -- Rayvel, a Connecticut based corporation specializing in advanced holographics, was honored during the SBIR & Global Trade Summit that took place at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center in Uncasville, CT on Jul...
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David Fawcett named President & CEO of Miyachi Unitek Corporation
07/30/2012
Monrovia, CA -- Manufacturer of welding equipment and laser systems, Miyachi Unitek Corporation, has announced that David Fawcett has been appointed as President & CEO of Miyachi Unitek Corporation (MUC), after serving as t...
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RIT and Raytheon Visions Systems collaborate on advancing IR detectors
07/30/2012
Rochester, NY--The National Science Foundation has awarded the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) $1.2 million to develop, fabricate, and test a new family of IR detectors grown on silicon wafer substrates by Raytheon Visi...
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Steve Paolini appointed Chief Technology Officer of NEXT Lighting
07/30/2012
San Francisco, CA -- Developers of solid-state lighting (SSL) solutions, NEXT Lighting Corp., announced the addition of Steve Paolini as Chief Technology Officer.
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Luminus Devices opens office in Taiwan
07/30/2012
Billerica, MA -- Developer of LED technologies and solutions, Luminus Devices, Inc., has announced that the company has opened an office in Taiwan in response to growing demand in the Asian market.
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PANORAMIC OPTICS: Two freeform reflectors control ray bundles exactly
07/27/2012
The use of two reflectors in freeform optics results in exact solutions for manipulating rays to form panoramic and other types of images. |
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Smallest semiconductor laser created by University of Texas scientists
07/27/2012
Austin, TX--Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with colleagues in Taiwan and China, have developed the world’s smallest semiconductor laser. |
Laser Energetics names Michael Volpe to Senior Advisor
07/27/2012
Mercerville, NJ -- Developer of laser products for industry, science, medicine, homeland security, and military applications, Laser Energetics, Inc., reported that Michael Volpe has joined the Company as a Senior Advisor as par...
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Laser-activated resonator and nanostring creates chip-based optomechanical sensor
07/27/2012
Lausanne, Switzerland--EPFL scientists have developed a chip-based optomechanical sensor that they say could revolutionize sensing and atomic force microscopy. |
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BU, MIT, and others show new path to terahertz radiation detectors
07/27/2012
Boston, MA--A team of researchers at Boston University (BU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a number of other institutions have shown that some materials undergo an insulator-to-metal transition under the infl...
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