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New Era of Research Begins as World's First Hard X-ray Laser Achieves "First Light"

The world's brightest X-ray source sprang to life last week at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) offers researchers the first-ever glimpse of high-energy or "hard" X-ray laser light produced in a laboratory.

21 Apr 2009

New Technique That Scrambles Light May Lead To Sharper Images

When photographers zoom in on an object to see it better, they lose the wide-angle perspective -- they are forced to trade off "big picture" context for detail. But now an imaging method developed by Princeton researchers could lead to lenses that show all parts of the scene at once in the same high detail.

21 Apr 2009

Carl Zeiss Launches A Purpose-Built Multiphoton Laser Scanning Microscope

Zeiss has overcome the challenges of imaging deep inside living tissues with the launch of the LSM 7 MP, a purpose-built multiphoton laser scanning microscope that, for the first time, incorporates two separate scanners.

20 Apr 2009

GenOptics to Join HORIBA Scientific Business Segment

HORIBA Jobin Yvon (Longjumeau, France) a fully owned affiliate of HORIBA Ltd (Kyoto, Japan) and a leader in analytical instrumentation products and worldwide leader in optical spectroscopy, announced today, April 17th, 2009 the acquisition of GENOPTICS (Orsay, France).

20 Apr 2009

Innovative Method for Controlling Light by Adopting Tuning Concepts from RF Technology

In a recent publication in Nature Photonics, a joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Centro de Física de Materiales of CSIC/UPV-EHU in San Sebastian (Spain), Harvard University (USA) and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich (Germany) reports an innovative method for controlling light on the nanoscale by adopting tuning concepts from radio-frequency technology.

19 Apr 2009

Using Colors of Light to Shrink the Size of Circuitry

A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light.

16 Apr 2009

ITT Corp Receives Multi-Million Order for Night Vision Goggles from U.S. Army

ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) has received a $121 million order from the U.S. Army Research, Development + Engineering Command Acquisition Center for the AN/PVS-14, ITT's most popular night vision goggle. This order represents the fifth largest ever received by the division.

16 Apr 2009

Open Design Allows for Precision Adjustment With External Optics

With six powerful thin-film chips and a hemispherical lens, the new Infrared OSTAR Lighting LED from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors produces 3.5 W of optical output power at an operating current of 1 A.

16 Apr 2009

New Versatile Colour Camera for Material and Life Science

Olympus has introduced the new SC30 easy-to-use colour camera for high quality microscopy imaging. With superior resolution and quality, outstanding colour reproduction is ensured.

15 Apr 2009

European Organization for Nuclear Research Places Order for Zecotek's MAPD Solid-State Photo Detectors

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 Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland, has placed initial purchase orders for Zecotek's proprietary MAPD-3N Micro-pixel Avalanche Photo Diodes.

15 Apr 2009