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    Long-wavelength VCSEL operates at high temperatures; Quasi-phase-matched SHG generates sub-6-fs pulses; Quantum-dot photodetectors exhibit a wide detection window...
    July 1, 2001
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    Searching for faster response times than possible with CCDs, scientists are developing a variety of position-sensitive devices.
    July 1, 2001
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    A far-field measurement instrument characterizes divergent light sources with far-field irradiance patterns to achieve a high level of product quality.
    July 1, 2001
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    Managing both chromatic and polorization-mode dispersion is critical to ensure quality performance in future 40-Gbit/s networks.
    July 1, 2001
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    Environmental monitoring of atmospheric regions above the tropopause (at about 12-km altitude) has been an international initiative since the dawn of the space age. Accurate measurement...
    July 1, 2001
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    During the past decade, new laser-based methods for generating pulses of far-infrared (far-IR) radiation at terahertz frequencies (0.1 to 10 THz) have been developed. These techniques...
    July 1, 2001
    MCE Technologies launches optoelectronics company; LightPointe receives patent for free-space optical technology; University of Rochester licenses technology to Atlanti...
    July 1, 2001
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    Optics manufacturers find low-cost labor with strings attached.
    July 1, 2001
    Progress continues toward 157-nm lithography; Cree Lighting sues Nichia for patent infringement; Laser simulation contract may hit $400 million...
    July 1, 2001
    Imaging companies combine to form Roper Scientific MASD; Investors ante up $6 million to Be Here; Opsys goes west...
    July 1, 2001
    In conjunction with NFOEC, WDM Solutions will sponsor "The 40 Gibt/s Forum" July 8 at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, Md...
    July 1, 2001
    Using a focused beam from an argon-ion laser, porous silicon is partially oxidized, creating lateral confinement for a buried waveguide. In practice, the full oxidation shown does not take place because there is insufficient oxygen beneath the surface—the material collapses instead. Even so, partial oxidation is still enough to create an efficient waveguide.
    Researchers at the Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris (IEN; Turin, Italy) have fabricated and patterned porous silicon to provide lateral waveguide confinement...
    July 1, 2001
    50-GHz OADM; Industrial optical-laser wrist system; Diode-pumped solid-state laser power supply; Advanced distributed-feedback laser; Halogen light source for machine vision.....
    July 1, 2001
    Engineers at Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) have demonstrated that an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) is capable of producing a high-repetition-rate burst of short pulses...
    July 1, 2001
    Physics and astronomy researchers at the State University of New York (SUNY; Stony Brook, NY) believe that an underground detector array consisting of almost 10,000 photomultiplier...
    July 1, 2001
    Despite a downturn in the US technology sector, the National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference (NFOEC) is gearing up for another year of record attendance this month at the Baltimore...
    July 1, 2001
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    The notion of using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for general room illumination is becoming less far-fetched as time goes by. Boosting the electrical-to-optical efficiency of LEDs...
    July 1, 2001
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    Ytterbium-doped holey fiber pumped with 966-nm light compresses and amplifies chirped 1.06-µm seed pulses. When in the holey fiber, the seed pulses quickly form solitons whose wavelength depends on the amount of amplifier gain. Wavelength tuning range of the setup is 1.06 to 1.33 µm. At higher pump powers, multicolor pulses are produced, some with wavelengths up to 1.58 µm. The solid core of the fiber, which carries the solitons, is approximately 2 µm in diameter.
    Conventional wavelength-tunable sources of femtosecond light pulses in the 1 to 1.3-µm range typically consist of large solid-state lasers with complex, high-precision cavities...
    July 1, 2001
    RHK predicts conservative telecom growth in 2002; Corning and Alcatel agree to share technologies; Solinet Systems raises a record $93 million...
    July 1, 2001
    On the "eve" of this year's National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, (NFOEC) in Baltimore, MD, one cannot fail to be aware of the financial gloom hanging over the world's telecommunic...
    July 1, 2001
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    A laser scanner is helping Evernham Motorsports (Charlotte, NC) create a new line of faster race cars by allowing the team to document even the smallest changes to the body design...
    July 1, 2001
    With the recent gyrations of the stock market, we've seen a dramatic fall in the numbers of venture-capital placements and initial public offerings in the optoelectronics arena...
    July 1, 2001
    Meetings, Courses, and Calls for Papers, covering August through November 2001.
    July 1, 2001