CNTs Nontoxic in Mice
Jan. 31, 2008
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) tracked inside mice for months were found to be nontoxic, research that may...
Kodak Q4 Profits Rise
Jan. 30, 2008
Propelled by a 15 percent increase in digital sales, Eastman Kodak Co. today reported a fourth...
Tiny Electronics Printed Fast
Jan. 30, 2008
A new technique for printing superthin lines quickly over wide areas could lead to larger, less...
'Squeezed Light' Record Set
Jan. 29, 2008
An extremely high-quality green laser beam has allowed a record number of photons to be placed in a...
Biophotonics Shines at PWest
Jan. 28, 2008
While the biophotonics community had the stage to itself during the BIOS portion of Photonics West,...
Air Sensor to Help Asthmatics
Jan. 28, 2008
A new sensor system that can be worn in the pockets of a vest continuously monitors the air for...
Canada Invests in Photonics
Jan. 28, 2008
The Ottawa photonics industry received a $22.3-million boost today from the Canadian government,...
Fermilab to Begin Furloughs
Jan. 25, 2008
With federal funding for high energy physics in the US unexpectedly reduced by $94 million for...
EUV Laser Light Improved
Jan. 25, 2008
The quality of laser light at extremely short wavelengths has been improved dramatically, a...
SuperSTEM 2 Unveiled
Jan. 25, 2008
A scanning transmission electron microscope unveiled this week can sharply image an atom at 20...
Markets on the Mind
Jan. 24, 2008
Crowds continued to fill the exhibition halls at Photonics West. Exhibitors were unanimous in their...
Rain Won't Dampen PWest
Jan. 24, 2008
On a day only a duck could love, SPIE’s CEO, Eugene Arthurs, PhD, told exhibitors, “I applaud...
SPIE, Laurin to Host Awards
Jan. 24, 2008
SPIE and Laurin Publishing, publisher of Photonics Spectra magazine and Photonics.com, have agreed...
Nichia Shows Blue-Green LDs
Jan. 24, 2008
Nichia said it has developed a 488-nm blue-green GaN-based laser diode designed for biomedical...
Bausch to Buy eyeonics
Jan. 23, 2008
Bausch & Lomb announced it will acquire eyeonics inc., a private ophthalmic medical device...
JDSU Makes Tiny TOSA
Jan. 23, 2008
JDSU said today it has created the smallest widely tunable transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA)...
Superblack Material Created
Jan. 23, 2008
The darkest material ever made by man absorbs more than 99.9 percent of the light that hits it and...
Exhibits Draw PWest Crowd
Jan. 23, 2008
The first wave of Photonics West 2008 attendees arrived Tuesday at the San Jose Convention Center...
PWest Moving to San Francisco
Jan. 23, 2008
SPIE Photonics West will be held in San Francisco starting in 2010, SPIE announced yesterday. The...
Sharper X-rays Developed
Jan. 22, 2008
Using novel x-ray optical components instead of sophisticated crystal optics has allowed dark-field...
Dynasil Buys Line from POC
Jan. 22, 2008
Photonics company Dynasil Corp. of America announced today that it has acquired the optical filter...
Trumpf to Aid Beam Teams
Jan. 22, 2008
Trumpf Laser announced this week it will provide a TruDisk 8002 laser, along with on-site operation...
1300 Papers Presented at BiOS
Jan. 21, 2008
Biomedical optics took center stage at Photonics West this weekend as the BiOS 2008 conference...
Contacts for Bionic Vision
Jan. 18, 2008
For the first time, engineers have used microfabrication techniques to combine a flexible,...
Funds to Push Photon Chip
Jan. 18, 2008
The University of Texas Dallas (UT Dallas) has received a $1.75 million grant from DARPA to develop...
Enablence to Buy ANDevices
Jan. 18, 2008
Enablence Technologies Inc., an Ottawa developer of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) transceivers for...
CNPs Inject Fluid into Cells
Jan. 18, 2008
Carbon nanopipettes (CNPs) thousands of times thinner than a human hair can measure electric...
Fano Effect Seen Using Quantum Dot
Jan. 17, 2008
An international team of researchers has revealed a previously unseen phenomenon known as the Fano...
LightPath Enters Joint Venture
Jan. 17, 2008
LightPath Technologies Inc. announced that on Jan. 8 it entered into a joint venture agreement with...
Atotech to Work in NY
Jan. 17, 2008
Atotech, a German developer of chemistry applications for the nanoelectronics industry, will...
PW Showcases Products, Tech
Jan. 17, 2008
More than 1000 companies from all over the world will showcase their newest products and technology...
Laser Firms Form HyGeniLase
Jan. 16, 2008
Lantis Laser Inc. announced yesterday that it will form HyGeniLase Inc., a joint venture with Laser...
Schott Solar to Build in NM
Jan. 16, 2008
Schott Solar Inc., a subsidiary of international technology company Schott AG of Mainz, Germany,...
Silicon Shows TE Properties
Jan. 15, 2008
Energy now lost as heat during the production of electricity could be harnessed through the use of...
Corning Plant to Be Call Center
Jan. 15, 2008
Sitel Corp., a Nashville, Tenn.-based customer service outsourcing company, will establish a call...
Applied Materials to Cut Jobs
Jan. 15, 2008
Applied Materials Inc. announced today it will cut approximately 1000 jobs, or about 7 percent of...
Arasor Acquires Novalux
Jan. 14, 2008
Arasor International Ltd., the Australian light source maker that developed an optoelectronic chip...
Networking Issues Top Agenda
Jan. 11, 2008
The ever-increasing demand for faster communication networks with more capacity, and the need to...
Black Holes Make Light Echo
Jan. 11, 2008
It’s well known by astrophysicists that black holes can slow time to a crawl and tidally stretch...
Gooch & Housego Consolidates
Jan. 10, 2008
Gooch & Housego Plc announced this week that it will mark its 60th anniversary by bringing five...
Method Predicts Droplet Size
Jan. 10, 2008
Chemical engineers have developed a method of precisely predicting the size of droplets formed from...
Blue Laser Source Reported
Jan. 10, 2008
The "first blue laser light source" of a particular kind has been developed in South Korea,...
Jenoptik Buys Diode Maker
Jan. 9, 2008
The Jenoptik Group announced this week it has strengthened its Optical Systems business by...
Brighter LEDs Eyed for Homes
Jan. 9, 2008
Nanoimprint lithography techniques that increase the brightness of LEDs could enable the...
Stocker to Stress Med Tech
Jan. 9, 2008
StockerYale Inc. said today it will put an increased emphasis on medical market business...
Solar Install Set in CT
Jan. 9, 2008
Gloria Spire Solar LLC, a joint venture company formed by Spire Corp. of Bedford, Mass., and Gloria...
Biomedical Polymers Created
Jan. 8, 2008
Unique polymers that change shape upon heating are being developed for biomedical applications such...
Light Bent in 3-D Crystals
Jan. 8, 2008
Optical waveguiding of near-infrared light has been achieved through features embedded in...
Why Smaller is Stronger
Jan. 8, 2008
For 50 years scientists have known that as structures made of metal get smaller -- on the scale of...
Gates, Simonyi Give LSST $30M
Jan. 8, 2008
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Project has received $20 million from the Charles...
Model Evaluates Biosensors
Jan. 7, 2008
A new modeling technique explains for the first time why a single nanotube performs better than...
Latest Research a BiOS Draw
Jan. 7, 2008
The latest clinical and technical advances in microscopy, therapeutic lasers, molecular imaging,...
JDSU Buys Westover Fiber Div.
Jan. 7, 2008
JDSU announced today it acquired the fiber division of Westover Scientific Inc., a Seattle, Wash.,...
Leoni Acquires FiberTech
Jan. 4, 2008
German specialty fiber manufacturer Leoni Fiber Optics, a subsidiary of Leoni AG, announced it...
PLI to Make DARPA FPAs
Jan. 4, 2008
Princeton Lightwave Inc. (PLI), a maker of optical semiconductor components and subsystems, has...
Avnet Buys Chip Distributor
Jan. 4, 2008
Electronic components distributor Avnet Inc. of Phoenix announced this week that it has acquired...
Photonics Reduces Switch Size
Jan. 3, 2008
Photonic crystal technology has been used to reduce the size of an optical switch to only a few...
L-3 Wins LHD Contract
Jan. 3, 2008
L-3 Communications announced today it has signed a contract, valued at $109 million, with...
MEAS Buys Sensor Maker
Jan. 2, 2008
Sensor and sensor-based systems manufacturer Measurement Specialties Inc. (MEAS) announced today it...
Teledyne to Acquire Judson
Jan. 2, 2008
Teledyne Technologies Inc. announced today that its Scientific & Imaging subsidiary will...
Source Photonics Files IPO
Jan. 2, 2008
Source Photonics Inc. (formerly Luminent Inc.), a subsidiary of MRV Communications Inc., filed a...