'Folded' Optic Slims High-Res Cameras
Jan. 31, 2007
By "folding" a telephoto lens, engineers have built a powerful yet ultrathin digital camera. This...
Biophotonic Sensor Field 'Ripe With Opportunity'
Jan. 31, 2007
The field of biophotonic sensors is ripe with opportunity, according to Dr. David Krohn, managing...
New Class of GaN-Based Laser Diode Created
Jan. 30, 2007
A research team that included the inventor of the blue laser diode has created the first nonpolar...
Hubble’s Main Camera Fails
Jan. 30, 2007
The Hubble Space Telescope’s main camera, the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), stopped working...
MDS Buying Molecular Devices for $615M
Jan. 29, 2007
Canada-based drug developer MDS Inc. today announced it will acquire Molecular Devices Corp., a...
Lockheed Martin Awarded $8.7M for Mast Sensor System
Jan. 29, 2007
Lockheed Martin announced today it received an $8.7 million contract to develop a low-profile mast...
Jury Sides with Broadcom in Qualcomm Patent Case
Jan. 29, 2007
Broadcom Corp., a provider of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications located in...
SPIE: Photonics West Reveals Upbeat Industry
Jan. 29, 2007
Photonics West 2007 -- with its sold-out exhibition, 3000 presentations, 70 courses and record...
Blood-Cell-Sized Memory Circuit Created
Jan. 26, 2007
Researchers have created an ultradense memory device the size of a white blood cell that has enough...
Exhibitors Positive About Photonics West 2007
Jan. 26, 2007
Organizer SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering, estimated Thursday that more...
Unusually White Beetle Gives Scientists Bright Ideas
Jan. 25, 2007
An obscure species of beetle could teach scientists how to produce brilliant white ultrathin...
Buoyed by LCD Sales, Corning Reports $646M Profit
Jan. 25, 2007
Citing tremendous growth in glass sales for LCD TVs, Corning Inc. yesterday announced a...
Over 1000 Exhibit at Photonics West 2007
Jan. 24, 2007
Photonics West 2007's exhibition opened Tuesday with more than 1000 booths, making it North...
Imaging Focus of BiOS at Photonics West
Jan. 23, 2007
Photonics West 2007 opened Saturday amid a number of photonics-related advances, both commercially...
Beam Shaper Makes Square Laser Light Round
Jan. 23, 2007
Schott is introducing beam-shaping technology at Photonics West 2007 which it said offers laser...
Newport Corp. Forms Fiber Laser Group
Jan. 22, 2007
Laser and photonic components and instruments maker Newport Corp. announced today that it has...
Ultrashort Light Pulses Generated
Jan. 22, 2007
Using a titanium:sapphire laser to control the pulse duration of light from a free electron laser,...
Luna Innovations Awarded $4M in Nanotech Contracts
Jan. 22, 2007
Luna Innovations Inc., a developer of molecular technology and sensing solutions, has been awarded...
Image Stored on One Photon
Jan. 22, 2007
Researchers have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of...
Nanosensor Promising for Space Research
Jan. 19, 2007
By detecting the terahertz frequencies contained in cosmic radiation, a tiny but supersensitive...
Nanocomposite Yields Strong and Stretchy Fibers
Jan. 19, 2007
Creating artificial substances that are both stretchy and strong has long been an elusive...
Obstacle to Mass-Producing Microchips Removed
Jan. 18, 2007
By eliminating tiny air bubbles that form when liquid droplets are molded into intricate circuits,...
Instrumentation Challenges Among Pittcon 2007 Topics
Jan. 18, 2007
Chapin Rodriguez, European affairs manager at the American Chemical Society, will speak on...
Nanoparticles Sneak Drugs into Cancer Cells
Jan. 18, 2007
A new use for Buckyball nanoparticles has been discovered -- as "passkeys" that allow drugs to...
Wrinkled 'Skin' Created on Polymers
Jan. 18, 2007
By controlling the direction and intensity of a focused ion beam, researchers have sculpted...
Eye Implants for Cats Could Help Blind Humans See
Jan. 17, 2007
Tiny eye implants that allow the blind to see have mainly been confined to the realm of science...
UC San Diego Targets Girls' Science Education
Jan. 17, 2007
An environmental education initiative to try keep middle-school girls excited about science and...
Suitcase Full of Optricks Helps Math, Science Go Down
Jan. 16, 2007
In the past few years, a quiet transformation has been taking place in schools from coast to coast:...
Advanced Medical Optics Acquires WaveFront Sciences
Jan. 16, 2007
Advanced Medical Optics Inc. (AMO), a maker of medical devices and laser vision-correction systems,...
Bausch & Lomb Invests in AcuFocus
Jan. 15, 2007
Bausch & Lomb announced today it has made an equity investment in and secured an exclusive...
Thermo Fisher Buys SwissAnalytic
Jan. 15, 2007
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced today it has acquired Basel, Switzerland-based...
Taiwan Opto Markets Value Tops $38B
Jan. 15, 2007
The total production value of Taiwan's optoelectronics industry was NT$1.27 trillion (approximately...
Satellites to Launch for Northern Lights Study
Jan. 15, 2007
An international team of scientists will begin gathering the most detailed information yet about...
Geologists: Black Diamonds Come From Outer Space
Jan. 12, 2007
Using infrared synchrotron radiation, geologists have discovered that Earth's so-called black...
3-D Map of Dark Matter Reveals Cosmic Scaffolding
Jan. 12, 2007
A comprehensive three-dimensional map offers a first look at the weblike large-scale distribution...
Patent Dispute Ends Canon, Toshiba SED Joint Venture
Jan. 12, 2007
Because of pending litigation against Canon Inc. over SED (surface-conduction electron-emitter...
15,000 Expected to Attend Photonics West 2007
Jan. 11, 2007
More than 15,000 are expected to attend Photonics West in San Jose from Jan. 20-25, where the...
Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone
Jan. 11, 2007
Cisco announced today it has filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. in the US District Court for the...
$100M Raised to Manufacture Plastic Semiconductors
Jan. 11, 2007
Plastic Logic announced last week that it has raised $100 million to fund construction of the first...
Swiss Team Leads PLEAS Photonics Project
Jan. 11, 2007
A European consortium has started a €2.8 million project to bring plasmonics from the halls of...
Thorlabs Buying OFR
Jan. 10, 2007
Thorlabs, a Newton, N.J.-based developer of optical technologies, announced it is acquiring OFR...
Kodak Selling Health Group for $2.5B
Jan. 10, 2007
Eastman Kodak Co. announced today it is selling its 111-year-old Health Group to Onex Healthcare...
Corning Demos Green Laser
Jan. 10, 2007
Corning Inc. announced this week it will make available green-laser prototypes to potential...
ficonTEC Acquires Newport
Alignment, Welding Lines
Jan. 9, 2007
ficonTEC GmbH announced it has acquired Newport Corp.'s automated fiber alignment and laser welding...
Boston Scientific to Cut 500-600 Jobs
Jan. 9, 2007
Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp., based in Natick, Mass., announced yesterday it plans...
Strength of Nanotubes and Nanowires Combined in Hybrid
Jan. 9, 2007
Hybrid structures have been created that combine the best properties of carbon nanotubes and metal...
Advanced Medical Optics to Buy IntraLase for $808M
Jan. 8, 2007
Advanced Medical Optics Inc. (AMO), a maker of medical devices and laser vision-correction systems,...
Medical Imaging Research Gets $3M From DoD
Jan. 8, 2007
Rice University has received a $3 million award from the US Department of Defense for a five-year...
Visible Light Transmitted Through Nanocable
Jan. 8, 2007
Physicists have beamed visible light through a cable hundreds of times smaller than a human hair,...
Pulsar Creation Theory Remodeled
Jan. 5, 2007
A three-dimensional computer model that shows how pulsars obtain their spin could lead to a greater...
JDSU Acquiring Casabyte
Jan. 4, 2007
JDSU announced today it is acquiring Casabyte Inc., a provider of service quality monitoring...
Nanowires Create 'Endless' LED Opportunities
Jan. 4, 2007
A long-sought-after semiconducting material synthesized by engineers at the University of...
Nanoparticles Found to Delve Deeper in Flexing Skin
Jan. 4, 2007
A team of chemists and toxicologists was surprised to discover that repetitive movement can cause...
New Class of Ultrathin Polymers Discovered
Jan. 3, 2007
Scientists have defied the textbooks and transformed 1,2-disubstituted ethylene molecules into...
Fastest Molecules Ever Boost Optical Technologies
Jan. 3, 2007
The Internet could soon shift into overdrive thanks to a new generation of optical molecules...
Lancer Buys Greene, Tweed Businesses
Jan. 3, 2007
Lancer Systems LP announced it has purchased the defense and fiber optics businesses of Greene,...
Kodak, Sony End Digital Imaging Patent Fight
Jan. 3, 2007
Eastman Kodak Co. and Sony Corp. of Japan today announced in separate statements that they have...
Imaging Method Detects Alzheimer's Risk
Jan. 2, 2007
An innovative brain-scan technology shows promise in detecting those at risk for developing...
Feedback Device Eliminates Mode Hops
Jan. 2, 2007
A nonmechanical electronic feedback control that reportedly provides dramatically improved...
Laser-based Process Purifies Carbon Nanotubes
Jan. 2, 2007
Conventional ways of purifying carbon nanotubes -- necessary if they are to be used in the future...
PerkinElmer Acquires Thermal Analysis Line
Jan. 2, 2007
PerkinElmer Inc. announced today it has acquired a line of dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA)...