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New Software Enables Mars Rover’s ChemCam Instrument to Select Rock Targets Autonomously

New software is enabling ChemCam, the laser spectrometer on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, to select rock targets autonomously—the first time autonomous target selection is available for an instrument of this kind on any robotic planetary mission.

22 Jul 2016

Scientists Collaborate with Startup Company to Turn Novel Tabeltop Laser into Commercial Product

Scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have collaborated with a local startup company to turn a novel tabletop laser – one that produces extreme ultraviolet light at unprecedented energies and pulse rates for studies of complex materials – into a commercial product.

21 Jul 2016

Scientists Develop Powerful Ceramic-Based Laser for Use in Surgery, Composite Materials Industry

Scientists from MIPT and their colleagues have developed a novel compact and powerful ceramic-based laser - it will be used as a minimally traumatic and inexpensive laser scalpel for surgical operations, and also for cutting and engraving composite materials. The results of the study have been published in Optics Letters.

21 Jul 2016

Scientists Use New X-Ray Laser Experimental Station to Study Nature of Hemoglobin

A new X-ray laser experimental station at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory recently welcomed its first research group, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

18 Jul 2016

UT Austin Scientists Use Computer Simulations to Make Gamma Rays from Lasers

Ever play with a magnifying lens as a kid? Imagine a lens as big as the Earth. Now focus sunlight down to a pencil tip. That still wouldn't be good enough for what some Texas scientists have in mind. They want to make light even 500 times more intense. And they say it could open the door to the most powerful radiation in the universe: gamma rays.

12 Jul 2016

FLIR Unveils Star SAFIRE 380-HLDc Compact Multispectral Imaging System

FLIR Systems, Inc. today announced the release of the new Star SAFIRE 380-HLDc high-definition, compact airborne electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) targeting system.

12 Jul 2016

Mitsubishi Completes Delivery of Very First ABLASER Laser Micromachining System

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., Ltd., a Group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has completed delivery of its very first "ABLASER" laser micromachining system.

8 Jul 2016

Ultratech Announces Expansion Order from Asian Foundry for LSA101 Dual-Beam Laser Spike Anneal System

Ultratech, Inc., a leading supplier of lithography, laser-processing and inspection systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs), as well as atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, today announced an expansion order from a foundry in Asia to add capacity for 28-nm production.

7 Jul 2016

3D-Micromac’s microDICE Laser Micromachining System Supports Volume Production of High-Power Diodes

3D-Micromac AG, a leading supplier of laser micromachining and roll-to-roll laser systems for the photovoltaic, medical device and electronics markets, today announced that its microDICE™ laser micromachining system has been adopted by a major industrial manufacturer for volume production of high-power diodes.

7 Jul 2016

Distributed Feedback Could Help Induce Plasmonic Lasers to Emit Narrow Beam of Light

Lasers have become indispensable to modern life since they were invented more than fifty years ago. The ability to generate and amplify light waves into a coherent, monochromatic and well-focused beam has yielded applications too numerous to count: laser scanners, laser printers, laser surgery, laser-based data storage, ultrafast data communications via laser light, and the list goes on.

7 Jul 2016