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Physicist Develop Ultra-Fast Semiconductor Nano-Lasers

Physicist at the University of Jena together with colleagues from Imperial College London develop ultra-fast semiconductor nano-lasers. As the researcher report in the current issue of the journal of "Nature Physics", they are capable of producing the fastest lasers to date (DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS3103).

30 Sep 2014

BSI to Present_Laser-Based Standoff Detection of Explosives at Frontiers in Optics conference

Biophotonic Solutions Inc. (BSI), the world leader in automated laser pulse compression, announces that company founder Dr. Marcos Dantus will give an invited presentation at The Optical Society's (OSA) upcoming Frontiers in Optics (FiO) conference. Scheduled for October 22, 2014, in Tucson, Arizona, Dr. Dantus' talk will cover the Dantus Research Group's work on laser-based standoff detection of explosives.

29 Sep 2014

Gigaphoton Develops Electricity-Reduction Technology for GT Series ArF Immersion Lasers

Gigaphoton Inc., a major lithography light source manufacturer, announced today that it has completed development of an electricity-reduction technology for its flagship “GT Series” of argon fluoride (ArF) immersion lasers used for semiconductor lithography processing.

29 Sep 2014

EMCORE Launches Dual Micro-Integrable Tunable Laser Assembly for Coherent Market

EMCORE Corporation, a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber optics and space solar power markets, announced today the introduction of the Dual micro-Integrable Tunable Laser Assembly (ITLA) for the coherent market, which has begun customer sampling for qualification. EMCORE expects the Dual micro-ITLA to be commercially available in the first calendar quarter of 2015.

From Emcore Corporation 24 Sep 2014

New Low Power Consumption High Performance Laser and Driver from NeoPhotonics

NeoPhotonics Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of photonic integrated circuits, or PIC, based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed communications networks, today announced general availability of its low power consumption 28G EML laser and driver for Dual Rate 100G LR4/ER4 CFP2 client side transceivers. Low power EML lasers and drivers are especially critical for 100G CFP2 power class 3 transceivers, which require a total power consumption of less than 9W.

23 Sep 2014

Hisense Announces Launch of Laser Cinema

If monochrome, color and LCD television represent the three important eras in the development of display technologies, the dawn of the fourth era took place on September 10th, with the introduction of the Laser Cinema by Hisense.

22 Sep 2014

AdvancedCath Acquires LSA Laser

AdvancedCath, a portfolio company of Inverness Graham Investments, announced on September 9, 2014 it significantly expanded its outsourced medical device manufacturing platform by acquiring LSA Laser located in Plymouth, MN. LSA Laser brings state of the art laser welding and micro machining capabilities to complement AdvancedCath’s existing catheter and guidewire manufacturing business.

18 Sep 2014

EXCITE ISR Laser Atherectomy with PTA Better than PTA Alone

The Spectranetics Corporation today announced that Eric Dippel, MD, at Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), the annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, presented findings from the EXCITE ISR clinical trial proving Spectranetics' laser atherectomy devices, used with PTA (also known as balloon angioplasty), are clinically superior to PTA alone in both safety and efficacy, triggering a new standard in cardiovascular care.

18 Sep 2014