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Fraunhofer IPMS Presents Alternative to Laser Scanning Microscopy

The laser scanning microscopy is a well-established visualising method for different fields of application. The objects being detected are raster scanned by a focusing laser beam and the light diffused from the samples surface is collected by a suitable mounted detector.

29 May 2008

Design Study and Prototyping of Adaptive Mirror for the European E-ELT

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has recently entrusted CILAS with a design study and prototyping of the adaptive mirror for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). The E-ELT, the next ESO large programme, will have a primary mirror diameter of 42 metres and is planned to be operational in 2018. It will be the world largest installation of its kind.

28 May 2008

Program to Utilize AOptix Adaptive Optics Technology for ORCA Project

AOptix Technologies, Inc., a leading edge developer of ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions has been selected by Northrop Grumman Corporation's Electronic Systems sector to design and build the free space optical terminals for the ORCA project.

28 May 2008

Another Significant Milestone for the ABL Missile Defense Program

The Boeing Company, industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency achieved another significant milestone for the Airborne Laser (ABL) missile defense program this month by completing the first laser activation testing on the ground at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

28 May 2008

Single Laser Pulse Creates Complex, Ordered Nanostructure Systems

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden have reported that a single laser pulse can create complex, ordered nanostructure systems. This previously unobserved phenomenon has just beeen described in an article in the scientific journal Nature Photonics.

28 May 2008

Newport Chosen as Preferred Supplier for Lasers and Precision Motion Subsystems

XsunX, Inc., a solar technology company engaged in the build-out of its multi-megawatt solar module manufacturing facility, announced today that it has expanded its existing two-year relationship with Newport Corporation by selecting Newport as its preferred supplier for laser and motion subsystems for its integrated Thin Film Photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing line.

From Newport Corporation 28 May 2008

QPC Lasers Awarded Contract for BrightLase Fiber Laser Pump Engine Development

QPC Lasers, Inc. has been awarded a $750,000 contract to develop and deliver BrightLase® high power fiber laser pump engines to a U.S. Defense Customer for airborne directed energy weapons applications.

28 May 2008

Understanding and Predicting Properties of Conventional and Non-Conventional Lasers

Researchers at Yale and the Institute of Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich have formulated a theory that, allows scientists to better understand and predict the properties of both conventional and non-conventional lasers, according to a recent article in Science.

28 May 2008

Zecotek Photonics Signs Sales and Distribution Agreement for Products in Israel

Zecotek Photonics Inc. is pleased to announce that it has signed an exclusive sales and distribution agreement with Toyo Ram for Zecotek products in Israel.

28 May 2008

Quest for the Ideal Photonic Crystal

Researchers have been unable to build an ideal "photonic crystal" to manipulate visible light, impeding the dream of ultrafast optical computers. But now, University of Utah chemists have discovered that nature already has designed photonic crystals with the ideal, diamond-like structure: They are found in the shimmering, iridescent green scales of a beetle from Brazil.

20 May 2008