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New Coherent Quasi-CW UV Laser Delivers Highest Power Yet Available

Two new quasi-CW UV lasers from Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) deliver the highest power currently available for products of this type.

7 Jul 2009

Zecotek Photonics Green Fiber Laser Selected by Russian Academy of Sciences

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that its proprietary Green Fiber Laser GFL 550 has been selected by the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk) as the main laser source for Raman spectrometers in solid-state research and for confocal microscopy in biomedical (DNA) research.

2 Jul 2009

Working Towards an Optical Integrated Circuit

ETH Zurich researchers have successfully created an optical transistor from a single molecule. This has brought them one step closer to an optical computer.

2 Jul 2009

Coherent Expands its Family of Matrix Lasers

Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) has expanded its family of MATRIX™ lasers with a new ultraviolet model optimized to produce 1.5 Watts at a high repetition rate of 70 kHz, in order to support high-throughput applications.

1 Jul 2009

Innovative Technology Shatters The Barriers of Modern Light Microscopy

Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technische Universität München are using a combination of light and ultrasound to visualize fluorescent proteins that are seated several centimeters deep into living tissue.

30 Jun 2009

Using Laser Beams Create Ultra-High-Speed "Temporal Lenses" Capable Of Making "Movies" Of Molecular Processes

Finding a way to observe and record the behavior of matter at the molecular level has long been one of the holy grails among physicists. That ability could open the door to a wide range of applications in ultrafast elect...

28 Jun 2009

Leica Geosystems Extends Its Wide Range Of Rugged Construction Lasers

Leica Geosystems extends its wide range of rugged construction lasers with the new Leica Rugby 260SG, 270SG and 280DG series of mid-range general construction lasers that can be used for flat, single or dual grade, and even interior applications (Rugby 280DG).

25 Jun 2009

Quantum Bit Memory Lengthen by 1,000 times using Lasers

The scientists, including the University of Michigan's Duncan Steel, used lasers to elicit a previously undiscovered natural feedback reaction that stabilizes the quantum dot's magnetic field, lengthening the stable existence of the quantum bit by several orders of magnitude, or more than 1,000 times.

24 Jun 2009

AMS Technologies Signs Distributor Contract with LightPath

LightPath Technologies and AMS Technologies have signed a master distributor contract designating AMS Technologies to be the exclusive distributor for LightPath Technologies products throughout Europe.

23 Jun 2009

Next-Generation 'Special Lane' Enforcement System

Police authorities in Germany have invested in new traffic enforcement equipment from VITRONIC. The PoliScanspeed system has been installed on a section of road only allowed for busses and taxis, but frequently exploited by private vehicles. In the first week alone almost 1000 infringements were detected.

23 Jun 2009