Bird Flu Biosensor is Better
Sep. 28, 2007
A new, portable biosensor based on interferometry is more sensitive and days faster than...
PSU Inks $25M Navy Contract
Sep. 28, 2007
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Div. in Patuxent River, Md., has awarded Pennsylvania State...
NIH Supports Microscopy
Sep. 27, 2007
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded more than $5 million to two researchers working...
GigaPan Cameras Unveiled
Sep. 27, 2007
A low-cost robotic device enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking gigapixel (billions of...
All Aboard the Quantum 'Bus'
Sep. 27, 2007
Two research groups have independently demonstrated a superconducting quantum 'bus,' using it both...
Nanotech Served to Kids
Sep. 27, 2007
A hearty serving of nanotechnology designed to spark an interest in math and science is on...
MRI Finds Brain Marker
Sep. 26, 2007
A new marker that may aid in early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease has been found through the use...
Rapid Detector Funded
Sep. 26, 2007
Of all the threat scenarios facing emergency responders around the country, the release and spread...
Lasers Used in Cytometry
Sep. 26, 2007
A white light source based on an ultrafast high-power fiber laser integrated with photonic crystal...
Flir to Provide Handhelds
Sep. 25, 2007
Flir Systems Inc. is being awarded a $47.6 million contract by the US Navy for up to 700 handheld...
MacArthur Fellows Named
Sep. 25, 2007
Inventor Saul Griffith, nanotechnologist Paul Rothemund, biomedical scientist Mark Roth and...
Bright Quantum Dot Record Set
Sep. 25, 2007
Enhanced fluorescence intensity has been demonstrated by a factor of up to 108 by placing quantum...
CNTs Glow in Live Fruit Flies
Sep. 25, 2007
The first optical images of carbon nanotubes inside a living organism have been captured using a...
Ocean Optics Opens Online Shop
Sep. 25, 2007
Ocean Optics, a supplier of optical sensing products, has opened a new online shop featuring its...
Jmar Closing Vermont Plant
Sep. 24, 2007
Jmar Technologies Inc., a developer of laser, high-resolution imaging and photonics technologies,...
Northrop Awarded Laser Work
Sep. 24, 2007
Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a contract potentially valued at more than $98 million for...
EURYI Winners Announced
Sep. 24, 2007
Researchers with big plans for molecular optoelectronic nanodevices, antimatter and biological...
LightPath: Jobs Cut, CEO Out
Sep. 21, 2007
In the wake of poor performance in the fourth quarter, LightPath Technologies Inc. announced it has...
Light Source Brightened
Sep. 20, 2007
A brighter polarized light source for LEDs in laptop computers, cell phones and other consumer...
Purdue Gets Nano Grant
Sep. 20, 2007
Purdue University's Network for Computational Nanotechnology has received a five-year, $18.25...
X-Rays Image Fragile Scrolls
Sep. 20, 2007
A machine that can generate light beams a million times brighter than conventional x-rays is being...
IME, Fujikura to Make CDCs
Sep. 20, 2007
Stabilizing optical signals in high-speed optical networks is the goal of a joint research and...
Paetec to Acquire McLeodUSA
Sep. 19, 2007
Paetec Holding Corp. announced this week it will acquire McLeodUSA Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in...
Fujifilm to Move Camera Ops
Sep. 19, 2007
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. said Wednesday it will transfer its digital camera production operations to...
Quantel Buys WaveLight Unit
Sep. 19, 2007
Optical laser manufacturer WaveLight AG announced today it has sold its WaveLight Aesthetics GmbH...
Flir Gets $28.6M Order
Sep. 19, 2007
Thermal imaging systems maker Flir Systems Inc. announced it has received a $28.6 million order...
Positronium Atoms Created
Sep. 19, 2007
Molecular positronium has been created for the first time in the laboratory by firing intense...
Thorlabs, BMC to Make Mirrors
Sep. 18, 2007
Thorlabs Inc. a Newton, N.J.-based developer of laser and fiber optic systems, and Boston...
Next Rover $75M Over Budget
Sep. 18, 2007
In light of a Mars Science Laboratory budget overrun estimated at $75 million, NASA has cut...
Radio Waves Cool Cantilever
Sep. 17, 2007
Physicists have used radio waves to dampen the motion of a thin silicon cantilever containing more...
Photop Buys Coating Company
Sep. 17, 2007
Photop Technologies Inc., a maker of fiber optics, crystal materials, and optics and projection...
Bookham Plans 10Gb/s Module
Sep. 17, 2007
Bookham Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based provider of optical components, modules and subsystems,...
Photonics on Agribiz Agenda
Sep. 17, 2007
The 2007 International Photonics, Food & Agriculture Conference will address how photonics,...
NanoSensors Ends Operations
Sep. 14, 2007
NanoSensors Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., announced Thursday it has terminated its business and that...
Flir Acquiring Cedip Infrared
Sep. 14, 2007
Thermal imaging systems maker Flir Systems Inc. announced today it is acquiring a controlling...
Google Funds $30M Moon Race
Sep. 14, 2007
The X Prize Foundation and Google Inc. announced yesterday the launch of the $30 million Google...
DHS Renews Bruker Contract
Sep. 14, 2007
Bruker Daltonics Inc., a maker of mass spectrometry and detection technology, announced it has been...
OSA to Award Ming Wu
Sep. 14, 2007
Ming C. Wu will be awarded the 2007 OSA Engineering Excellence Award, to be presented at the...
Medical Optics a FiO Feature
Sep. 13, 2007
Using tiny implantable cameras to restore sight, lasers to treat infertility and light to detect...
Sensor of Champions
Sep. 13, 2007
A sensor that collects and immediately transmits data from the human body could boost athletes'...
EUV Lithography Improved
Sep. 12, 2007
Light has been generated and optics damage lessened in extreme ultraviolet lithography by adding...
Lightworks Awarded $2.8M
Sep. 12, 2007
LightWorks Optics Inc. has been awarded an additional $2.8 million contract for high-precision...
Telcoms to Gather at ECOC
Sep. 12, 2007
Seven of the world’s leading telecom operators will gather under the banner of the Optical...
100K Dpi Printing Unveiled
Sep. 11, 2007
A new technique allows the printing of particles as small as 60 nanometers -- roughly 100 times...
BTI Closes $12M Round
Sep. 11, 2007
BTI Photonic Systems, a supplier of microWDM (wavelength division multiplexing) optical network...
Knowledge Base Shifts
Sep. 11, 2007
The "global knowledge economy" is being dominated by a small, "elite club of regions" in both the...
Nanorods for Better Sunscreen
Sep. 11, 2007
New ways to make or modify nanorods and nanotubes of titanium oxide, a light-absorbing material...
QTOF Analysis Has Wide Scope
Sep. 10, 2007
A method involving a quadrupole time-of-flight (QTOF) mass spectrometer enables large numbers of...
Solar Converted to Laser Light
Sep. 10, 2007
Osaka University and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are developing a way to convert...
Thruster May Shorten Mars Trip
Sep. 7, 2007
An amplified photon thruster that could potentially shorten the trip to Mars from six months to a...
Nanotubes Mass-Produced
Sep. 7, 2007
A new fabrication technique called nanopantography can create billions of carbon nanotubes in hours...
BAE Nabs Sensor Contract
Sep. 7, 2007
BAE Systems has received a $49 million US Navy contract to develop a system that can rapidly...
Northrop to Make Lasers
Sep. 7, 2007
Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a contract from the US Army to provide more than 500...
Big Bang Theorist Dies
Sep. 6, 2007
Ralph A. Alpher, 86, whose PhD dissertation on the Big Bang theory in 1948 brought into being the...
Rohm and Haas Cuts 200 Jobs
Sep. 6, 2007
Specialty materials provider Rohm and Haas Co. announced Tuesday it will close its digital imaging...
Anadigics Buys RF Business
Sep. 6, 2007
Communications chip maker Anadigics Inc. announced yesterday it has acquired Fairchild...
JDSU Demos Tunable PIC
Sep. 5, 2007
JDSU announced today it has demonstrated a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) that combines a...
Thermo Buys Davis Inotek Unit
Sep. 5, 2007
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., based in Waltham, Mass., announced today it has acquired the...
Eye Implant Monitors Pressure
Sep. 5, 2007
An artificial lens with an integrated sensor is being developed as a permanent implant that could...
Laser Lab Funds at Risk
Sep. 5, 2007
Federal funding for an experimental laser program at major US universities has been marked for...
Camera Scans Sky for Killers
Sep. 4, 2007
A gigapixel camera that can see stars millions of times fainter than are visible to the naked eye...
Laser Blasts Viruses in Blood
Sep. 4, 2007
A walk in the park led to a new use for lasers: zapping viruses out of blood. The technique, which...
Why Beetles Aren't Giants
Sep. 4, 2007
The average size of certain beetles is apparently limited by passageways leading to their legs,...
Nanomagnets May Replace ICs
Sep. 3, 2007
Just as compact discs all but wiped out vinyl records, semiconductors could be on their way out,...