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Integrating Plasmon-Based Nanophotonic Circuitry with ICs

IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, reports a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects. Metal-based nanophotonics (plasmonics) can squeeze light into nanoscale structures that are much smaller than conventional optic components.

30 Apr 2009

Compact Lasers Suitable for Mass Production are Now Within Reach

Compact lasers which can work in formerly inaccessible parts of the spectrum and are suitable for mass production are now within reach, thanks to pioneering work by a European consortium.

29 Apr 2009

New Line of Vacuum Based Tubes and Camera Systems for Photon Detection now Available from AMS Technologies

The products from Photek Ltd. are now available from AMS Technologies AG in Germany. Photek is a specialist manufacturer of vacuum based tubes and camera systems for photon detection.

28 Apr 2009

Lighting the Way for LED Innovation

What do automobiles, traffic lights, Christmas trees, ultrasound machines and the Statue of Liberty all have in common? The answer, surprisingly, is LED illumination. Today, LEDs power many of the products we use and the future for LEDs is very bright indeed. In fact, LEDs are poised to become the dominant source of our lighting in the future.

28 Apr 2009

Zecotek Receives Order for MAPD Solid-State Photo Detectors from CERN

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, is pleased to announce that the NA61 Experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland, has submitted purchase orders for Zecotek's proprietary third generation Micro-pixel Avalanche Photo Diodes (MAPD-3N).

28 Apr 2009

Radeka Honored for Detector Development

The IEEE's Long Island Section has honored Veljko Radeka, head of the Instrumentation Division at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, with the Harold Wheeler Award.

28 Apr 2009

Large Format Camera Lenses Providing Very High Resolution for Current and Future Sensors and Cameras

Custom Large Format Lenses from Resolve Optics Ltd. provide the very high resolution over a large image format required by current and future generation megapixel line scan and area scan sensors and cameras used in demanding scientific and machine vision applications.

27 Apr 2009

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

IPOS Announces Launch with One-Day Symposium on The Photonic Universe

The Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), the newest institute in the University of Sydney and the only one of its kind in Australia, launched this week with a one-day symposium The Photonic Universe - Faster, Further, Smarter.

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