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M Squared Lasers Secures Investment for Growth

Business Growth Fund (BGF) today announced its investment of £3.85 million of growth capital in Glasgow based technology business M Squared Lasers.

From M Squared Lasers 1 May 2012

ODIS Wins NASA Phase II Contract to Supply Optoelectronics Development Platform

Breakthrough Optical Code Technology Continues to Influence Air, Space and Commercial Advances.

1 May 2012

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Side Effects in Patients with Pacemakers

Great care should be taken when performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with a cardiac pacemaker. Henning Bovenschulte and his co-authors review recent findings in the latest issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.

1 May 2012

B&W Tek Announces a Quantum Leap in the Evolution of Miniature CCD Spectrometer Technology

B&W Tek, an advanced instrumentation company producing optical spectroscopy and laser systems, is proud to introduce the future of miniature spectrometers, and what users are calling the first truly “smart” spectrometer.

From m-oem 1 May 2012

Attosecond Lighthouses May Help Illuminate the Tempestuous Sea of Electrons

Physicists have long chased an elusive goal: the ability to “freeze” and then study the motion of electrons in matter. Such experiments could help confirm theories of electron motion and yield insights into how and why chemical reactions take place. Now a collaboration of scientists from France and Canada has developed an elegant new method to study electrons’ fleeting antics using isolated, precisely timed, and incredibly fast pulses of light.

1 May 2012

Optical Clock Supercedes Cesium As Standard in Accurate Timekeeping

Atomic clocks based on the oscillations of a cesium atom keep amazingly steady time and also define the precise length of a second. But cesium clocks are no longer the most accurate. That title has been transferred to an optical clock housed at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colo. that can keep time to within 1 second in 3.7 billion years.

1 May 2012

Molecular Spectroscopy Tracks Living Mammalian Cells in Real Time as They Differentiate

Berkeley Lab scientists demonstrate the promise of synchrotron infrared spectroscopy of living cells for medical applications

1 May 2012

Researchers Produce Chip to Produce Photons for Optical Computing

In the age of high-speed computing, the photon is king. However, producing the finely tuned particles of light is a complex and time-consuming process, until now.

1 May 2012

2kW Fiber Laser Launched by JK Lasers

JK Lasers launch JK2000FL Fiber Laser, with enhanced energy efficiency and reliability.

30 Apr 2012

Phase-sensitive optical data transmission: a new frontier

Traditionally, commercial fibre-optic communications have relied on encoding the data in the amplitude of a light beam (varying the intensity of the light to transmit information). Placing devices called 'Erbium-doped fibre amplifiers' at intervals along the fibre to periodically boost signal strength overcomes propagation loss, but provides a relatively inefficient use of fibre potential.

30 Apr 2012