Automation of Laser stripping helps fiberoptic components move more rapidly to volume production. A new noncontact process produces high yields and high tensile strength.
In a collaboration with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (Cambridge, MA), Cleveland Crystals (Highland Heights, OH) is now depositing sol-gel antireflective coatings ...
Using in-situ laser-Raman spectroscopy, researchers at the University of Alabama (UAB; Birmingham, AL) and University of California-Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA) have developed...
Using the Mark-III free-electron laser (FEL) at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN), a multicollege team of scientists has created and demonstrated a promising waveguide delivery...
The viability of using high-power lasers to drill for oil and gas is being investigated by the Gas Technology Institute and the US Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy...
Rohm becomes the latest licensee of Kodak's OLED technology; Heico buys Analog Modules Inc. for $15.6 million; DuPont licenses its own technology from Motorola for LCDs...
Remote sensing of cloud properties traditionally uses "on-beam" lidar, which collects light from a very narrow field-of-view (FOV) centered on the transmitted laser beam.
In the Design and Application article, "'Phaser' awaits solid-state UV laser" (Laser Focus World, Februrary 2001, p. 147), the reference to affiliations of HSV Technologies (San...
Scientists at ROLIC Research (Allschwil, Switzerland), are applying optical methods for patterning and aligning liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) to the development of antireflection...
The behavior of fluid flows influences, and often determines, the performance of a large variety of devices and processes. Some of the more familiar examples include fuel/air ...
A two-dimensional version of the fiber Bragg grating—a planar holographic optical processor (planar HOP)—should allow signals to be selectively routed by wavelength and temporally...
The first high-volume maker of a reliable low-cost, blue-emitting laser diode will reap vast rewards. Such a device would inevitably become the standard laser in next-generation...
Higher total gain and a flatter gain profile across the transmission spectrum for DWDM make Raman amplification the technique of choice at high data rates.
The performance of high-powered lasers depends on effective cooling. Choosing the right chiller requires an understanding of your cooling requirements and the available options...
It's called "the last-mile" problem: studies show that fewer than 5% of all buildings in the United States have a direct connection to a high-speed (above 2.5 Gbit/s) fiberoptic...
Many types of metal vapor lasers were available in earlier years; today only the helium-cadmium and copper vapor lasers are still used in commercial applications.
Miniaturization and performance improvements are driving the electronics industry to shrink the size of semiconductor packages and greatly increase the density of printed circuit...
As excimer lasers have matured from laboratory tools to increasing industrial use, manufacturing processes have developed to take advantage of the unique properties of this family...
I am frequently asked to define the word 'ablation'. The dictionary definition is either a wearing away by heat (examples are glaciers and rocket nose cones) or the surgical removal...
Kishan Dholakia and others at St. Andrews University (Fife, Scotland) have modified optical-tweezer techniques to provide rotational control of objects held in laser beams. Applications...
Most of the public information on the telecom market comes from the perspective of the financial press, and the news is dominated by the large, dedicated telecom companies such...
The change in presidential administrations has cast doubt on the futures of many government programs and initiatives, but one that seems to be unshaken by the transition is the...
A prototype digitizing system consisting of a laser rangefinder and a high-resolution digital camera is breaking new ground in three-dimensional (3-D) scanning and scene reconstruction...
Unless you've been on safari deep in the jungle recently, you'll recognize the quote above as the catch-phrase used by the acerbic British host of NBC's newly imported game show...
A noncontact gallium aluminum arsenide laser sensing system based on laser triangulation technology is providing wallboard manufacturers with online, real-time wallboard thickness...
One of the more intriguing aspects of covering optoelectronic research and its implementation is being able to monitor the progress of the different approaches researchers take...
SENDAI-Scientists at the Institute for Advanced Materials Processing of Tohoku University have discovered a new method of developing high-density, high-luminance phosphor materials...
TOKYO-An optical system developed by Item-16 Co. efficiently directs natural light to rooms. Termed light-guiding profiles (LGPs), the technology creates a comfortable indoor ...
Researchers at Kansas State University (KSU; Manhattan, KS) have fabricated a prototype semiconductor microdisplay based on their previously reported work with arrays of interconnected...
Manufacturing supply chain feels telecom strain; Carl Zeiss responds to cyclic semiconductor market; Inrad reports more than 2000% earnings increase...
The development and introduction of increasingly dense wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) schemes has in turn created a growing market for higher-power components. For example...
With the advent of optical parametric oscillators (OPOs), there is now very little of the infrared (IR) spectrum that is out of reach for solid-state laser sources. While OPO-...
Absorption and scattering images of in vitro and in vivo bones and joints have been captured from continuous-wave tomographic measurements by researchers from Clemson University...
The US Naval Observatory (USNO; Washington, DC), with funding from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD), has begun assembling the pieces of the Full-sky Astrometric...
Researchers at Aalborg University (Aalborg, Denmark) and the Technical University of Denmark (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark) have directly observed a bandgap effect in surface plasmon...
In results presented at the Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics (May 6-11, Baltimore, MD), a team of scientists from Thales (Orsay, France) describe the room-temperature operation...
