ASI, 89 North, Berliner Glas, Goodrich ISR, and Insight light up the Photonics West show floor (VIDEO)
02/21/2012
San Francisco, CA--Laser Focus World attempted to capture the essence of some of the best showings on both the BiOS and Photonics West 2012 exhibit floors. |
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Wind turbine LIDAR control system adopted for 10 MW Canadian wind farm
02/20/2012
Chantilly, VA--Catch the Wind signed a sales agreement with Saturn to equip all wind turbines at its 10 MW Gesner wind farm with Vindicator LIDAR. |
Fiber-based MOPA system avoids stimulated Brillouin scattering
02/20/2012
Mountain View, CA--Mobius Photonics was granted United States patent 8,009,705 for a "Fiber MOPA System without Stimulated Brillouin Scattering." |
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Spending cuts to US military laser budget may go deep
02/17/2012
For FY 2013, the Pentagon has proposed deep cuts to the budget for military lasers and directed-energy weapons, slashing the total by approximately 33% from FY 2012. |
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Airborne Laser Test Bed is put to rest in the Boneyard
02/17/2012
Davis Monthan Air Force Base, AZ--The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced this week that the Airborne Laser Test Bed -- a megawatt-class 1.3 µm chemical oxygen-iodine laser (COIL) mounted in a modified Boeing 747 and in...
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LIDAR used to map Mexicali magnitude 7.2 earthquake zone in 3D
02/16/2012
Davis, CA--Scientists from the U.S., Mexico, and China used differential LIDAR to report the most comprehensive 3D before-and-after pictures yet of an earthquake zone. |
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Laser additive manufacturing demonstration facility opened by ES Technology
02/16/2012
Daventry, England--ES Technology has completed a demonstration facility for laser additive manufacturing using its Concept Laser Mlab cusing machine. |
Vixar wins SBIR contract to develop 40-100 Gbit/s VCSEL
02/14/2012
Plymouth, MN--The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Vixar, a vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) maker, to demonstrate the feasibility of a ...
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Honeywell selects TeraXion to provide lasers for next-gen fiber-optic gyroscopes
02/14/2012
Quebec City, QC, Canada--TeraXion was selected to provide high-end laser solutions for the development of Honeywell’s next generation of fiber-optic gyroscopes. |
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OLED glass equity venture pairs Corning and Samsung technology
02/14/2012
Corning, NY--Corning and Samsung signed an agreement to establish a new equity venture for the manufacture of specialty glass substrates for the OLED device market. |
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Fundamentals of Raman spectroscopy
02/16/2012
Raman spectroscopy is a nondestructive and highly versatile technique for analysis of chemicals, both organic and inorganic. It is used in industry, bioscience, medical diagnosis, forensics, and many other areas. Sponsored by
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High-Power Solid-State Lasers for Military Applications
In this live web event contributing editor Jeff Hecht describes the leading approaches to high-power solid-state lasers, including fiber lasers, thin disks, ...
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SpectroscopyIn this Webcast, Dr. John Coates of Coates Consulting discusses the evolution of handheld spectroscopy, the enabling technologies and the applications. |
Applications of High-Power Solid State Lasers
Solid-state lasers can now routinely generate kilowatt-class powers, with the highest-power demonstrations reaching 100 kilowatts. This webcast will start by...
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High-power diode laser pumps for alkali lasers (DPALs)
We present performance data of recent high-power laser diodes emitting at typical pump wavelengths for alkali vapor lasers: 852 nm for cesium, 780 nm for rub...
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Filters for Laser Based Microscopes
Due to many desirable properties such as high brightness, stability, longevity, and
narrow spectral bandwidth, lasers have been advantageously replacing con...
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Multimodal Nonlinear Optical Imaging
Nonlinear optical (NLO) imaging is a powerful microscopy technique that has found increasing use in the field of biomedical optics. Ultrafast laser excitatio...
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Fundamentals of Raman spectroscopy
Raman spectroscopy is a nondestructive and highly versatile technique for analysis of chemicals, both organic and inorganic. It is used in industry, bioscien...
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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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