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Elbit Systems to Supply Thermal Imaging Systems for Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that its subsidiary, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop Ltd. (Elop) has been recently awarded three contracts valued in a total amount of approximately $87 million from a customer in Asia for the supply of cooled Thermal Imaging systems for reconnaissance and target acquisition applications.

21 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

Physicists Developed New Near-Infrared Broadband Laser Materials

A team of physicists in the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) of the Physics Department at The City College of New York (CCNY) have developed new near-infrared broadband laser materials with tunability ranges around triple those of earlier crystals.

19 May 2008

A Great Compliment to Special Optics Current High N.A. UV Line

Special Optics, Inc., a Navitar company and manufacturer of high precision ultraviolet (UV) optical systems, has expanded their broad range of UV lenses to include a high N.A. UV microscope objective with a numerical aperture of 0.90.

19 May 2008

Optimizing Glass in Order to Increase the Lifetime of Fiber Lasers

Researchers have found new methods for optimizing glass in order to increase the lifetime of fiber lasers. The trend is to produce fiber lasers with higher output powers, which places great demands on the optical fiber. This has been shown at Mid Sweden University in Sweden.

19 May 2008

Innovation Significantly Reduces Cost of Concentrator Photovoltaic Cells

IBM today announced a research breakthrough in photovoltaics technology that could significantly reduce the cost of harnessing the Sun's power for electricity.

19 May 2008

Generation of Laser Light Without Needing Large Energy Input

Kishor Kapale, an assistant professor of physics at Western Illinois University, had his research, "Lasing Without Inversion: Counterintuitive Population Dynamics in the Transient Regime," published in the prestigious Physical Review Letters (PRL) vol. 100, article 173601 (April 29, 2008).

17 May 2008

Automatic Corrective Lenses Prescription for the Patient

For the first time, a study combines measurements of abnormalities in the eye with models for assessing how well an individual can see, meaning it may be possible to program a machine to automatically produce prescriptions for corrective lenses.

15 May 2008

New Highly Efficient and Compact Gas Laser Line Allows IPG to Enter Additional Markets and Applications

IPG Photonics, the world leader in high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers, announced today that it has developed an advanced new family of CO2 gas lasers that will allow the Company to enter new markets and applications.

15 May 2008

Green Lasers are Key Components for Micro-projectors

Corning Incorporated will introduce the Corning® Green Laser G-1000 at the Display Week 2008 conference held by the Society for Information Display (SID) in Los Angeles, Calif., May 18-23. The high efficiency, high speed and small size of the Corning Green Laser G-1000 device were designed for integration into laser-based micro-projectors for embedded handsets and other mobile devices.

14 May 2008