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Mechanical Sensors 'Wired' by Photonics

As researchers push towards detection of single molecules, single electron spins and the smallest amounts of mass and movement, Yale researchers have demonstrated silicon-based nanocantilevers, smaller than the wavelength of light, that operate on photonic principles eliminating the need for electric transducers and expensive laser setups.

26 Apr 2009

Using Lasers to Encode Information Underwater

Technologies that use underwater acoustics -- for sonar, communications, or navigation -- often require a piece of hardware in the water to create sound remotely. Physicist Ted Jones and his team at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, are working on ways to use flashes of laser light instead.

26 Apr 2009

Coherent Ships AVIA Laser to Solar Industry for Manufacture of High-Efficiency Solar Cells

Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) today announced it has shipped its 100th AVIA™ laser into the solar industry for use in the manufacture of high-efficiency solar cells and panels.

23 Apr 2009

Laser System Offers New Insight into the Formation of Our Early Solar System

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:ESIO), a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for microengineering applications, today announced that its New Wave Research (NWR) Division's UP213 laser ablation system helped enable the dating of ancient asteroids at the Department of Geology at the University of Maryland.

22 Apr 2009

Carl Zeiss Introduces LSM 700 Laser Scanning Microscope

Carl Zeiss is setting a new performance standard for entry-level confocal microscopy with the introduction of the LSM 700 Laser Scanning Microscope, which uses proven modules from the world's largest range of fluorescence and laser scanning microscope systems to offer radical flexibility in both application and system structure.

22 Apr 2009

AMS Technologies Introduces Compact High Performance Laser Diode Controller

The Vue-LV-15 is a high performance, low cost 15A, 2.5V laser diode controller based on a powerful new microprocessor. It uses a precise crystal oscillator time base for direct computer control of the switching power stage and a patent-pending software algorithm that produces extremely low noise current without dangerous overshoots or start-up delays.

21 Apr 2009

New Era of Research Begins as World's First Hard X-ray Laser Achieves "First Light"

The world's brightest X-ray source sprang to life last week at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) offers researchers the first-ever glimpse of high-energy or "hard" X-ray laser light produced in a laboratory.

21 Apr 2009

New Technique That Scrambles Light May Lead To Sharper Images

When photographers zoom in on an object to see it better, they lose the wide-angle perspective -- they are forced to trade off "big picture" context for detail. But now an imaging method developed by Princeton researchers could lead to lenses that show all parts of the scene at once in the same high detail.

21 Apr 2009

Olympus Introduces Latest Version of the Highly Successful LEXT Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope

Olympus has introduced the LEXT OLS4000, the latest version of the highly successful LEXT confocal laser scanning microscope metrology system. The OLS4000 brings a number of additional features and enhanced functionality, including near-vertical slope capabilities, larger optical zoom and navigation overview window.

21 Apr 2009

Carl Zeiss Launches A Purpose-Built Multiphoton Laser Scanning Microscope

Zeiss has overcome the challenges of imaging deep inside living tissues with the launch of the LSM 7 MP, a purpose-built multiphoton laser scanning microscope that, for the first time, incorporates two separate scanners.

20 Apr 2009