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US Army Source 500 Laser Target Locators Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army to provide more than 500 hand-held laser target locators to assist soldiers in locating and identifying enemy targets.

6 Sep 2007

New Tool Simplifies Polishing on Optical Lenses

Without silicon there would be no computer industry since most computer chips consist of this semiconductor material. The same is true for solar cells: They too are predominantly silicon-based. The monocrystals are cut in round slices approximately one millimeter thick, which experts call wafers. Their surfaces must be as smooth as glass; irregularities may only be a few nanometers wide, i.e. less than one ten thousandth of a hair. Therefore, after they have been cut out of a large silicon monocrystal, the wafers must be ground and polished.

4 Sep 2007

Swedish Tunable Laser Developer Secures $7 Million in Funding

Syntune AB, a leading developer of innovative, single-chip, widely tunable lasers, today announced that it has closed the second round of financing of SEK 47.8 million ($7.1 million, EUR 5.2 million). The round was led by InnovationsKapital of Sweden; other investors who participated in the round were Teknoinvest, Vision Capital and existing private investors.

3 Sep 2007

X-Ray Induced Explosion of Microscopic Objects Observed using Newston's Dusty Mirror Experiment

Most people think of Sir Isaac Newton as the father of gravity. But for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist Henry Chapman and his colleagues, Newton’s “dusty mirror” experiment served a...

3 Sep 2007

Metrology Specialists Buy Non-Contact Optical Measurement Business CogniTens

Hexagon has entered into an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of CogniTens Ltd., a 3D non contact measurement technologies company.

3 Sep 2007

FDA Approve Device that Alleviates Pain During Cosmetic Laser Treatments

Candela Corporation today announced that it received an additional FDA clearance for the Serenity™ device using Pneumatic Skin Flattening (PSF™) technology. This clearance enables the use of the Serenity™ device for the reduction of pain during all laser and intense pulse light (IPL) treatments. According to Millennium Research, the worldwide installed base of laser and IPLs is estimated to be 70,000 worldwide.

3 Sep 2007

Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena Offer Masters Programme in Optics in Science and Technology

When you talk optics you will have to say Jena. And when you talk about the scientific education of optical experts, the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena has a reputation acknowledged throughout the world. The university also is the only one in Germany and one of five partners from all of Europe, which, starting in the fall of 2007, will offer the masters-programme „Optics in Science and Technology“ (OPSITECH). This course of study is aimed at master students and university faculty from all over the world, who will be supported from EU-scholarships.

3 Sep 2007

Laser Treatment Painlessly Treats Acne, Removes Hair and Rejuvenates Skin Tone

Dr. Jamé Heskett announces the addition of the Isolaz Painless Laser Facial for Acne to her New York office, Wellpath. The first FDA approved laser of its kind, the Isolaz deep pore cleansing treatment works by using proprietary photo-pneumatic technology to cleanse the skin via vacuum followed by painless heat which destroys the bacteria that causes acne.

3 Sep 2007

Northrop Grumman Win Contract to Develop Laser Weapon to Shot Down Hostile Missiles

The U.S. Army has selected Northrop Grumman Corporation for the first phase of a program to demonstrate the maturity of all enabling technologies for a mobile, solid-state laser weapon system mounted on a ground vehicle.

3 Sep 2007

Free Electrron Laser Laboratory in Danger with Cuts to Federal Funding

Federal funding for an experimental laser program at Duke and other major U.S. universities has been marked for elimination by the Department of Defense despite support from North Carolina members of Congress.

2 Sep 2007