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Researchers Create High-Power White Light Using Laser Diodes

As a modern culture, we crave artificial white lights -- the brighter the better, and ideally using less energy than ever before. To meet the ever-escalating demand for more lighting in more places and to improve the bulbs used in sports stadiums, car headlights and street lamps, scientists are scrambling to create better light-emitting diodes (LEDs) -- solid state lighting devices that are more energy efficient than conventional incandescent or fluorescent light sources.

30 Sep 2013

Daylight Solutions Completes Deliveries of Solaris Quantum Cascade Laser-Based Systems to the U.S. Army

Daylight Solutions, Inc. announced today the company has completed all deliveries of their Solaris™ Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL)-based systems to the U.S. Army through its partner, Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Electronic Systems sector, in support of the U.S. Army’s CIRCM program.

27 Sep 2013

Laser Energetics Awarded Large Scale International Order for Dazer Laser GUARDIAN Optical Distracter

Laser Energetics, Inc. today announced that they received an international order, which will be accompanied by a substantial down payment, for its Dazer Laser® GUARDIAN and accessories worth more than $650,000 USD, with training costs yet to be incurred. This order was received from a customer in Southwest Asia, which will not be specified at this time for security reasons at the request of the foreign military end-user.

26 Sep 2013

Safety of Flight Testing Completed for Northrop Grumman’s Laser-Based Common Infrared Countermeasure System

Northrop Grumman Corporation achieved another significant milestone on its Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM) program by completing safety of flight testing on prototype hardware.

24 Sep 2013

High Repetition Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System to be Developed at Dolni Brezany in the Czech Republic

Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, a team led by Bechtel and the University of California, has been granted an agreement worth more than $45 million to develop and deliver a state-of-the-art laser system for the European Union’s Extreme Light Infrastructure facility in Dolní Bøežany, near Prague in the Czech Republic.

20 Sep 2013

Zebedee Mobile Laser Mapping System Creates 3D Map of Leaning Tower of Pisa

Developed by the CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, the Zebedee technology is a handheld 3D mapping system incorporating a laser scanner that sways on a spring to capture millions of detailed measurements of a site as fast as an operator can walk through it. Specialised software then converts the system's laser data into a detailed 3D map.

19 Sep 2013

High-Tech Laser Cutter Capable of Etching Metals and Cutting Through Various Media

A new, state-of-the-art laser cutter stands in a room off of the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts’ workshop on the second floor of Sewall Hall. The price tag: $8,000 — a fraction of the cost of a factory-built laser cutter. The “good deal” comes courtesy of seven Rice undergraduate students. They built the laser cutter in fall 2012 as part of Visual and Dramatics Arts Visiting Lecturer Mike Beradino’s The Art of DIY course.

18 Sep 2013

New Strategic Partnership to Provide One-Stop Source of Innovative Aesthetic Laser Devices

LSO Medical SAS, a leading French laser manufacturer for aesthetic and surgical applications, and GME German Medical Engineering GmbH, a German company developing and marketing laser applications, announced today the formation of a strategic partnership.

18 Sep 2013

Ophir Photonics Launches 100K-W Laser Power Meter

North Logan, Utah - Ophir Photonics, global leader in precision laser measurement equipment and a Newport Corporation brand, today announced the 100K-W Laser Power Meter, the newest addition to the company's line of very high power laser sensors.

From Ophir Photonics Group 16 Sep 2013

II-VI Acquires Oclaro’s Gallium Arsenide Laser Diode Business in Switzerland

Oclaro, Inc., a leading provider and innovator of optical communications solutions, today announced that it has sold its Oclaro Switzerland GmbH subsidiary and associated laser diodes business to II-VI Incorporated in a transaction valued at $115 million. In addition, II-VI acquired an exclusive option to purchase Oclaro's optical amplifier and micro-optics business for $88 million in cash.

13 Sep 2013