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Company Increasing Value Through Innovation

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer electronics, industrial, defense, and medical markets, announces that it was granted a new patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The company now holds seven issued patents and nine patents pending.

21 Feb 2008

Creating Lasers Working at Wavelengths Currently Inaccessible

Scientists hope that research being conducted in Binghamton University’s Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy will create lasers that work at wavelengths currently inaccessible.

21 Feb 2008

Cymer Today Announces Shipment of its 100th XLA 6kHz Laser

Prior to SPIE Advanced Lithography 2008, Cymer, Inc., the world's leading supplier of light sources used in semiconductor lithography, announced today the shipment of its 100th XLA 6kHz laser - the industry's first production-worthy light source for 45nm immersion lithography - to a high-volume manufacturer.

20 Feb 2008

Tunable Lasers Becoming Key Element in Fiber Optic Measurement and Sensing

Luna Innovations Incorporated announces its highly anticipated tunable laser product, the Phoenix 1000, under its Luna Technologies brand of test and measurement products.

20 Feb 2008

Revolutionary Technology Enables Light Sources to Achieve Extreme High Brightness

Energetiq Technology, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of specialized short-wavelength light products for advanced technology applications, will introduce a revolutionary technology at the 2008 SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference, February 26-27, that enables light sources to achieve extreme high brightness and power over the broadest spectral range.

20 Feb 2008

USAF Awards Boeing to Develop Start-of-the-Art Laser Technology

The Boeing Company has been awarded a $49 million U.S. Air Force contract to advance the state of the art in laser technology.

20 Feb 2008

Examining Internal Structure of Materials at High Speed Using X-Ray

Standard microscopy and visible light imaging techniques cannot peer into the dark and murky centers of dense-liquid jets, which has hindered scientists in their quest for a full understanding of liquid breakup in devices such as automobile fuel injectors.

20 Feb 2008

Mitsubishi Electric Announces Sale of EAM-LD and PD Devices for Optical Transmission

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (President and CEO: Setsuhiro Shimomura) announced today the development of an electroabsorption modulator laser diode (EAM-LD) device and a photo diode (PD) device, both for 40Gbps optical transmission.

19 Feb 2008

Optical Technique Simultaneously Identifying Tiny Amounts of Molecules

Exhale on a cold winter day and you will see the water vapor coming out of your mouth. Light up your breath with a Nobel-Prize-related tool, and you could potentially detect trace amounts of over 1,000 compounds, some of which provide early warning signs of disease.

19 Feb 2008

Characterisation of Pharmaceutical Capsules Using Lasers

Scientists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, UK have developed an effective laser based method for the characterisation of the bulk chemical content of pharmaceutical capsules - without opening the capsules!

18 Feb 2008