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AMS Technologies Announces Availability of Solid State UV Lasers

Diode-pumped frequency-multiplied solid state UV lasers of the US manufacturer DPSS Lasers Inc. are available from AMS Technologies.

5 Jun 2008

Using Light to Destroy Cancer

When Sammie Bush mentioned to his doctor that he sometimes felt something in the back of his throat, he didn't expect to learn that he had cancer or that he would be the first patient at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago to undergo photodynamic therapy -- a new procedure that uses light to destroy cancer.

4 Jun 2008

Solid-State Lighting to Replace Incandescent and Fluorescent Lighting

Professor Shuji Nakamura, Director UC Santa Barbara's Solid-State Lighting and Energy Center, has been named a recipient of the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.

4 Jun 2008

Advanced Technology Drives Ongoing Live-Cell Research

Nikon Instruments Inc. and Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine announced the opening of a collaborative core microscopy imaging center, establishing a partnership that brings improved research capabilities to Northwestern, while providing critical feedback for Nikon product development.

4 Jun 2008

Physicians Say Sedationless Transnasal Endoscopy is Now Practical

Vision-Sciences, Inc. announced today that it has launched to the global gastroenterology market its new video-based flexible esophagoscope at the Digestive Disease Week Annual Conference in San Diego, California.

4 Jun 2008

Steerable Camera Pill

Images of the inside of the intestine can be obtained even today: The patient swallows a camera that is no larger than a candy. It makes its way through the intestine and transmits images of the intestinal villi to an external receiver which the patient carries on a belt.

4 Jun 2008

Demonstrating the Capabilities of Biosensors with Integrated Printed Optoelectronics

BIOIDENT Technologies Inc., the leader in the development of mobile analytic and diagnostic systems, today announced that the company was awarded a contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project "Printed Diagnostic Arrays".

29 May 2008

Ultra-Thin Image Sensor Based on the Insect Eye

Insects are a source of inspiration for technological development work. For example, researchers around the world are working on ultra-thin imaging systems based on the insect eye. The principle of hyperacuity has now been successfully incorporated in a technical model.

29 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