Lithography mask-aligner tools now paired with simulation software
02/22/2012
Garching, Germany--A new cooperation agreement pairs SUSS MicroTec lithography mask aligner exposure optics tools with Layout LAB simulation software from GenISys GmbH. |
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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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Integrated GRIN lens could couple light efficiently into silicon photonic circuits
02/20/2012
Singapore--Qian Wang and his group at the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) Data Storage Institute have developed a graded-refractive-index (GRIN) lens that can be directly integrated on a silicon chip at th...
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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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Edmund Optics accepting applications for 2012 higher-ed grant program
02/15/2012
Barrington, NJ--Edmund Optics is now accepting applications for their 2012 Higher Education Grant Program, which supports outstanding undergraduate and graduate optics programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathemati...
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Transparent ceramic suits high-energy laser systems
02/10/2012
Unlike fused silica and oxyfluoride glasses that cannot survive in some harsh environments, a new transparent ceramic for high-energy laser (HEL) systems developed at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NR) can withstand impact f...
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Slow-light lidar scans independently in two dimensions
02/09/2012
Researchers from the University of Rochester and the University of Ottawa who had previously demonstrated the one-dimensional (1D) steering of a lidar beam using slow light have now used two independent slow-light mechanisms to...
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OPTICAL DATA STORAGE: Holographic data storage uses volumetric crystal media
02/07/2012
Access Optical Networks (AON) has developed several technologies for holographic data storage (HDS) with write-only, read-only, and rewrite capability in a volumetric crystal media. |
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Quantum properties of glass micromechanical oscillator are controlled by light
02/06/2012
Lausanne, Switzerland--Physicists at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), who have for years been making ultrahigh-quality microring resonators for various purposes, have created one that is large enough (30 mic...
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Photonics21 Annual Meeting to emphasize growth and public-private partnership
02/03/2012
Brussels, Belgium--The annual meeting of Photonics21, scheduled for March 27-28 at the Hotel Husa President Park in Brussels, will focus on the way forward toward the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 and the founding of a Ph...
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Near IR (Infrared) Optical Materials
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High-power diode laser pumps for alkali lasers (DPALs)
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Filters for Laser Based Microscopes
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Multimodal Nonlinear Optical Imaging
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Fundamentals of Raman spectroscopy
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