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New Generation Provides More Efficient Fiber Coupling

The new generation of mini laser bars from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors offers exceptional brilliance in the wavelength range from 910 to 1020 nm.

15 Jun 2009

Scientist Honored for his Contributions to Development of Scalable High Energy Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Lasers

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is pleased to announce that Dr. Charles W. Clendening, ABL-NGAS Chief Scientist, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, Calif., has won the 2009 AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Award.

15 Jun 2009

Zecotek Photonics Announces Market Response to New Continuous Wave Narrow-Band Ti: Sapphire Laser

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that the market response to its new Continuous Wave Narrow-Band Ti: Sapphire Laser, the Tisarius-D-scan narrow-line laser, endorses Zecotek's growing reputation as a provider of leading edge photonic research tools.

15 Jun 2009

JDSU Announces Availability of IDL 200 Series Systems and Modules

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU) today announced availability of the Industrial Diode Laser (IDL) 200 Series systems and modules that will help end users and systems integrators improve the uptime of their instruments and lower maintenance costs when compared to the use of similar bar-based products.

15 Jun 2009

Features Hold Great Promise for Electronics and Photonics

Graphene is the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, whose extraordinary electron mobility and other unique features hold great promise for nanoscale electronics and photonics. But there's a catch: graphene has no bandgap.

10 Jun 2009

SCHOTT Supplies Fire-Polished Glass Rods for Efficient Manufacturing of Small Lenses

The fire- polished rods made of specialized glass that the international technology group will be presenting for the first time ever in Europe at "Laser - World of Photonics" can be less than 1 mm in thickness and up to 1000 mm long.

10 Jun 2009

New E+S Digital Projector Provides Superior 3D Images

Evans + Sutherland Computer Corporation (E+S) (NASDAQ:ESCC) announced today it will demonstrate for the first time its revolutionary new 3D capable laser projection system at the InfoComm 2009 tradeshow, booth 3813, June 17-19 in Orlando, Florida.

10 Jun 2009

FRT Introduces New Affordable Optical Tool for Non-Contact Film Thickness Measurements

FRT, a trusted partner for industry-proven metrological surface measuring systems, presents a new optical film thickness measuring tool at this year's Laser 2009 in Munich. The new MicroSpy FT non-destructively measures coatings that transparent or semi-transparent in the visible and near-infrared spectrum of light.

8 Jun 2009

Increasing the Efficiency of Lasers with Nanoparticles

"Light scattering" and "optical performance" are two concepts that usually head in opposite directions, but they have recently been shown to walk happily hand-in-hand. The results are impressive laser output from some new composite materials and the potential for making commercially viable solid-state dye lasers.

4 Jun 2009

Device Could be Used for Optical Communication, Force Detection, and More

Physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a nanoscale device that can be used for force detection, optical communication, and more. The device exploits the mechanical properties of light to create an optomechanical cavity in which interactions between light and motion are greatly strengthened and enhanced.

4 Jun 2009