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New Laser Product from BIOLASE Offers Dental Market Variety of Soft Tissue Procedures

BIOLASE Technology (NASDAQ: BLTI) will introduce a new, breakthrough laser at the Chicago Midwinter Dental Show this week, Feb. 25-27

23 Feb 2010

Pioneering Research on Laser Technology May Pave Way for Improved X-Ray Imaging Resolution

For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how to build a cost-effective and reasonably sized X-ray laser that could, among other things, provide super high-resolution imaging. And for the past two decades, University of Colorado at Boulder physics professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn have been inching closer to that goal.

22 Feb 2010

Lumina Power Launches New Products at Photonics West for Laser Diode Applications

This year's Photonics West show in San Francisco was attended by over 1100 exhibitors and 18,000 attendees. Lumina Power introduced several new products for laser diode applications along with additions to our XLB/MLB short-arc lamp power supply line.

20 Feb 2010

OTT Offers Training Course on High Powered Lasers in Fibre Optics Communication Systems

The Laser Safety and Good Working Practices with Fibre Optics one-day course is available as a company course run on your own premises

20 Feb 2010

L-3 Enters Acquisition Agreement with Electro-Optical Equipment Manufacturer Insight

L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Insight Technology Incorporated (Insight). Insight develops and manufactures mission critical night vision and electro-optical equipment including laser aiming and illumination devices, laser rangefinders, laser markers and designators, night vision goggles and monoculars, and thermal imaging systems.

20 Feb 2010

LightPath Technologies Sees Growth in Consumer and Industrial Laser Tools Market

Orlando, FL. LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH - News), is seeing increasing demand in the strategic market of molded aspheres for consumer and industrial laser tools. Current open orders for these products are valued over $1.8M with more than 25% growth anticipated over the next several quarters.

20 Feb 2010

Green Lasers Hit Market for Technological Applications

To get green, manufacturers have had to resort to optical trickery, such as frequency doubling, which entails a lot of extra equipment and decreased energy efficiency. Finally, after a worldwide technological race, researchers have found ways to fashion the compound semiconductor gallium nitride (and its close chemical cousins) into lasers that emit at just the point in the green spectrum that manufacturers desire.

20 Feb 2010

Opnext/Hitachi Offers New Range of Laser Diodes

Opnext/Hitachi has discontinued some of its laser diodes in the red and NIR ranges

19 Feb 2010

Aerotech Offers Precision Positioning Technology for Direct UV Laser Writing Applications

With application potential from telecom network components through to lab-on-a-chip (LOC) biological and chemical sensors, the photonic circuits are produced with the help of nanometre level precision positioning systems and motion controls from Aerotech

19 Feb 2010

Textron Defense Systems Successfully Tests its Joint High-Power Solid State Laser

Textron Defense Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that its Directed Energy Weapons business line has successfully tested its Joint High-Power Solid State Laser (J-HPSSL) laboratory demonstration device at average power levels in excess of 100 kilowatts. The J-HPSSL program, which is funded by the Joint Technology Office under contract with the U.S. Army Space & Missile Defense Command, was awarded to Textron Defense Systems in late December 2005.

19 Feb 2010