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Photonics Strengthens Defense – and Offense Light-based technologies offer the military significant advantages in sensing, communications and ev...	Beyond Recycling: Using Photonics to Save the Planet Historically, the environment has paid a heavy price whenever innovation or technological advances h...
Photonic Techniques Spark Manufacturing Revolution The symbiosis of manufacturing and photonics is set to change our lives very soon with advances such...	Doing the Math: Aging World Population Demands Photonics Innovation An aging world population may be the single biggest social challenge of this century – and pho...
Smartphones Move from Social Media to Social Medicine Cellphones have evolved from a luxury to a necessity in the past 20 years, and now smartphones are m...	Photonics Industry Undaunted by Uncertainty Despite lingering economic concerns, the photonics community is looking ahead to a brighter future &...
Prism Awards Finalists Offer Solutions to Big Problems Sensors for monitoring environmental toxins and detecting explosives, powerful new lasers for biopho...

Imparting bonds, directional bonds Colloidal particles have been forced to interact in specific ways that mimic the connectivity of ato...	Quantum mystery of light revealed A unique setup involving an integrated photonic quantum chip in a quantum beamsplitter is helping to...
3-D bow-tie nanolaser defies diffraction limit Nanolaser devices operating at room temperature defy the diffraction limit, thanks to a lasing cavit...	Nanocrystals ramp up hydrogen production Adding nanocrystals can make the light-driven production of hydrogen more robust and cost-effective,...
Quantum computer recycles photons New demonstrations show it is possible to recycle the photons inside a quantum computer so that quan...	Synthetic magnetic field directs photons A photonic crystal device that tames the flow of free-moving photons with synthetic magnetism could ...
Superparticles shaped from nanorods A new technique for growing complex superparticles from self-assembling nanorods could create a new ...	Most advanced giant telescope mirror completed The most challenging astronomical mirror ever made – 10 times more powerful than any other lar...
Optical accelerometer could transform microelectronics An ultrasensitive miniature optical accelerometer uses laser light rather than electrical circuits t...	Sensor reads single photons ultrafast In imaging, every single photon counts. Now, thanks to an ultrasensitive sensor, individual photons ...
Tying knots in light Light can be coaxed to tie itself into knots, but new research suggests that the knot-tying can happ...	Dark matter halos may contain stars Stars kicked to the edges of space during violent collisions and mergers with other galaxies can get...

Solutions in the spotlight at Photonics West, BiOS Photonics technologies and everything they enable will take center stage at Photonics West and BiOS ...	Moves & Expansions In Lafayette, Colo., Rocky Mountain Instrument has formed a unit, RMI Infrared LLC, to manufacture a...
Collaborations Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., will offer the proprietary software of SigmaTek Systems LLC of...	People In The News Richard Corbyn and Vikrant Mahajan Test and measurement company Labsphere Inc. of North Sutton, N...

ITC upholds tariffs on solar panels from China The US will soon impose tariffs on solar panels imported from China, now that the US International T...

SoCal Hybrid Optics Program Is “Just Right” As the need grows for engineers and technicians with photonics training, schools and colleges have b...

Excited about optics The University of California Irvine Extension honored Donn Silberman with the Dean’s Outstandi...

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