Adaptive-optics technology originally developed by the US military to clear up images from satellites is now being used in reverse to take the sharpest photographs ever of the...
Bonding fibers directly to a charge-coupled device allows significant improvements to be made to image quality and responsiveness in scientific and biomedical applications.
Advances in bus architecture and processor speeds have made it possible to use personal-computer (PC) based imaging systems for applications unheard of just a few years ago. Although...
Manufacturers are making the best of available materials and developing new ones in preparation for potentially lucrative and highly competitive markets.
Veridicom (Santa Clara, CA), a Lucent Technologies spinoff, and Techno Imagica Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) have announced that Techno Imagica will use Veridicom`s sensor chips in its...
Eagle Optoelectronics (Boulder, CO), a producer of wavelength-division multiplexing systems for optical receivers, has joined the Wave Wireless Networking Division of SPEEDCOM...
Researchers at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Newport News, VA) reached a milestone when they generated 155 W of infrared light at 5 µm with their free...
Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory (ARL; University Park, PA) and the US Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL; Livermore, CA...
The University of California Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic (Irvine, CA) has received $4.1 million to expand its Laser Microbeam and Medical Program, which gives medical...
It is now possible to create and rewrite one`s own compact disks (CDs). The new Compact Disc-ReWritable (CD-RW) drives and media introduced in 1997 by Philips Electronics N.V....
Laser Power Corp. (San Diego, CA) has received two orders for its series MLM blue and green microlasers with a combined value of more than $500,000. The lasers will be used in...
A team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has fabricated thousands of nanowires simultaneously with widths as small as 66 nm—about one...
Miniature flat-panel-display technology was a hot topic among the attendees at last May`s Society for Information Display conference (Anaheim, CA). The strengths and weaknesses...
Using femtosecond laser pulses and time-resolved microscopy, researchers at the University of Essen (Essen, Germany) observed Newtonian rings in a variety of materials, an optical...
A flexible, conjugated-polymer laser can be made by incorporating into the design a periodically modulated substrate that acts as a resonator to create a distributed-feedback ...
Efficient use of lasers as tools for chemical analysis has been a dream of spectroscopists since the power of tunable-laser spectroscopy was discovered in the 1970s. The spectra...
A pair of comets plunged into the atmosphere of the Sun on June 2—a rare event captured by the Large-Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) aboard the Solar and Heliospheric ...
Scientists in Germany have developed a mobile, resonant, multiphoton ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer (REMPI-TOFMS) for environmental analysis and industrial process...
Scientists at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY) have demonstrated three-color emission from gallium nitride-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) deposited...
The light source of the laser range finder is a collimated diode laser with an output beam of divergence less than 1 mrad. It produces a spot A on the first obstacle located at...
A grou¥of European universities and telecommunications companies have teamed u¥on a research project to create a high-speed network with all-optical switching. The Switchless...
Altitun AB (Kista, Switzerland), which entered the solid-state-laser market in February, has launched a wholly owned US subsidiary, Altitun Inc. (Pepperell, MA). Mark Graf, founder...
Responding to customer complaints about an excess of options in optical-transceiver termination and coupling devices, seven fiberoptic-components suppliers have agreed to a set...
Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) has bought LANNET (Tel Aviv, Israel) from Madge Networks NV (Wexham, Slough, England) for $117 million. LANNET makes Ethernet and asynchronous...
By the time this issue of the magazine falls into your hands, the summer of `98 will be almost over, but I`ve just finished an excellent book that I can wholeheartedly recommend...
