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	LIDAR uncovers ancient Cambodian city 06/18/2013 Sydney, Australia--Using airborne LIDAR technology, archaeologists have discovered a lost city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1200 years ago.
	Microphone listens and locates sound sources with optical position sensors 06/18/2013 Oslo, Norway--A millimeter-sized optical position detector developed by scientists at SINTEF’s Micro and Nano Fabrication Facility(MiNaLab) is aimed at making microphones hypersensitive.
	Laser Quantum to relocate facility 06/17/2013 Stockport, England--Diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) and ultrafast laser maker Laser Quantum will be relocating its headquarters to a new building.
	Laser tweezers manipulate protein nanocrystals 06/17/2013 Didcot, England--A new process for using laser tweezers developed at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC's) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory will help streamline protein microcrystal selection for biosciences re...
Headwall Photonics hires Kevin Lynch to expand European business 06/17/2013 Fitchburg, MA--Spectroscopy instrumentation company Headwall Photonics appointed Kevin Lynch as European sales manager to grow European business.
Infinera PICs exceed one billion failure-free hours 06/17/2013 Sunnyvale, CA--Infinera announced that its photonic integrated circuits (PICs) recently surpassed one billion hours of failure-free operation in live networks worldwide.
	Fujifilm and Panasonic create organic CMOS sensor with 88 dB dynamic range 06/17/2013 Tokyo and Osaka, Japan--Fujifilm Corp. and Panasonic Corp. have developed organic CMOS image-sensor technology that has a large dynamic range of 88 dB, preventing simultaneous overexposure in bright image areas and underexposur...
	Concentrator solar cell has best-yet conversion efficiency of 44.4% 06/14/2013 Osaka, Japan--Sharp Corporation has created a concentrator triple-junction compound photovoltaic (PV) cell that it says has the world's highest conversion efficiency of 44.4% (the number was confirmed by the Fraunhofer Institut...
Corning ClearCurve optical fiber solutions win datacenter award 06/14/2013 Corning, NY--Pretium EDGE Solutions featuring ClearCurve optical fiber solutions from Corning received the Datacentre Facility Product of the Year at the Datacentre Solutions Awards 2013.
	Deep-UV LEDs preserve strawberries 06/14/2013 CLEO can be a great place to come upon unexpected applications of photonics. One that caught my eye this year was the use of deep-ultraviolet LEDs to lengthen the storage lifetime of strawberries, an important concern when rhub...
	UPC researchers create inexpensive ultra thin silicon wafers 06/12/2013 Barcelona, Spain--A group at the Nanoengineering Research Centre (CRNE) and the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) has found a way to make the manufacture of silicon-based dev...
Jenoptik receives $7.3M order from Rheinmetall 06/12/2013 Jena, Germany--The Jenoptik Defense & Civil Systems division has received an order worth $7.3 million from Rheinmetall for 62 thermal imaging target acquisition systems and more than 300 laser rangefinders.
	Optimized photon-counting detector with no dark counts enables quantum-mechanics experiment 06/11/2013 Gaithersburg, MD--To conduct an important quantum-mechanics experiment, an international team of researchers had to create an extremely efficient photon-counting detector; the type they chose was a transition-edge sensor (TES),...
Lightwave Logic and UCB complete first optical structures for integrated optical devices 06/10/2013 Newark, DE and Boulder, CO--Lightwave Logic, Inc. (otcqb:LWLG), along with Alan Mickelson and his colleagues at the University of Colorado, Boulder (UCB), have completed the first set of optical structures to be used as the bas...
Getting the best business perspective 06/10/2013 Please comment on my business plan from the perspective of an investor.
CHILLERS AND COOLERS: Breakthrough of optical refrigeration: Laser cools a semiconductor by 40 K 06/10/2013 Optical refrigeration has reached a new stage in which semiconductors can be substantially cooled by laser light. This process could become practical for cooling electronics and optoelectronics, possibly leading to athermal las...
OPTICS FOR BIOPHOTONICS: Multivariate optical elements beat bandpass filters in fluorescence analysis 06/10/2013 For cytometry and pathology assays, multivariate optical elements (MOEs) can detect and measure a complex chemical signature in the presence of a strongly interfering fluorescent matrix with high sensitivity and specificity.
PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: METAMATERIALS AND TRANSFORMATION OPTICS: Will transformation optics be the next optical revolution? 06/10/2013 Transformation optics and metamaterials can make science-fictional invisibility cloaks in the laboratory and promise many other hitherto impossible optical feats-the big challenge now is converting elegant new concepts into pra...
PHOTOVOLTAICS: Raman spectroscopy monitors thin-film Si PV cell manufacture 06/10/2013 Thin-film silicon (Si) photovoltaics are a combination of amorphous and microcrystalline Si; monitoring the proportions via Raman spectroscopy and high-performance optical filters allows the cells to be optimized during manufac...
PHOTONICS APPLIED: MACHINE VISION: Pharmaceutical manufacturing embraces unique machine vision solutions 06/10/2013 Manufacturers of pharmaceutical products are depending on a variety of image-capture techniques, sophisticated optics, smart networking, and laser-based inspection tools for their machine vision systems to meet volume inspectio...
CLEO/Laser Focus World 2013 Innovation Awards 06/10/2013 The 2013 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards program honors the most timely, groundbreaking products in the field of photonics and laser science.
SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES: An even brighter future awaits supercontinuum fiber lasers 06/10/2013 In just 10 years, supercontinuum power levels have grown an order of magnitude with spectral range spanning from 380 to 2400 nm. Enhanced understanding of supercontinuum generation in optical fibers will enable continued produc...
Making photonics a priority 06/10/2013 The recent, highly successful LASER World of Photonics tradeshow in Munich makes very clear the international nature of photonics products and applications, and the success of related businesses.
	'Temporal cloaking' could bring more secure optical communications 06/10/2013 West Lafayette, IN--Researchers at Purdue University have demonstrated a method for "temporal cloaking" of optical communications.
	Y. K. Bae proposes flight demos of photon thrusters for spacecraft propulsion and maneuvering 06/07/2013 Tustin, CA--Y. K. Bae Corporation has proposed using state-of-the-art high-power thin-disk lasers as photon thrusters in spacecraft propulsion. Its current research on directed energy momentum beaming (DEMB) is aimed at virtual...