Emcore Corp. has acquired the product line and intellectual property of Soliant Energy Inc. of Monro... | JDSU and Amada have announced plans to jointly develop a second-generation suite of fiber lasers wit... |
Miniaturization technologies provider Tessera Technologies Inc. has named Bob Roohparvar, PhD, as it... | The Laser Illuminated Projector Association (LIPA) has been launched. Its objectives are to explain ... |
In response to demand for its laser technology, LPKF Laser & Electronics AG is expanding its Gar... | Amplitude Systemes has announced that it will open an office in Taiwan to provide sales and technica... |
The Life Sciences and Instrumentation Div. of Gooch & Housego has entered into an agreement with... | Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that its wholly owned US subsidiary, Elbit Systems of America, was awar... |
LED systems and laser modules manufacturer ProPhotonix Ltd. has announced the appointments of Tim St... | Optical components and assemblies manufacturer LightPath Technologies Inc. announced the continued e... |
Barbara Ann Mayfield has rejoined the sales team at Miltec UV, a manufacturer of high-performance UV... | Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc., the research division of Dynasil Corp., has been granted addition... |
A new research collaboration will be formed by Boston University and the University of California, D... | Photonic product supplier Laser 2000 GmbH has announced the addition of Wolfgang Bauer and Peter Sch... |
Bruce Renouard has joined LED lighting provider Cree Inc. as senior vice president of sales and busi... | Motion control company PI (Physik Instrumente LP) and its piezo ceramics division, PI Ceramic, have ... |
Hamamatsu Photonics KK has announced its award by the US Patent and Trademark Office of reissue pate... | The Laser Institute of America’s Third Annual Laser Additive Manufacturing Workshop in Houston... |
Universal Display Corp., a maker of organic LED (OLED) technology for the display and lighting marke... | A high-speed molding technology that can form optical components from glass taken directly from a fu... |
NKT Photonics A/S has been awarded a volume contract to supply its low-noise Koheras Basik fiber las... | Miniaturization technologies provider Tessera Technologies Inc., maker of the OptiML Zoom image enha... |
Trumpf Ltd. has reported that more than 300 people attended its In-Tech open house, the highest numb... | The impact of last week’s historic earthquake and tsunami off the east coast of Honshu, Japan,... |
Dr. Stephen Matcher, senior lecturer in biomedical engineering at the Department of Materials Scienc... | The latest winners of the Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize have been named, with prizes going t... |
Edmund Optics reports that all of its employees in Japan are safe and there is no major structural d... | Semrock Inc., a unit of Idex Corp., announced the launch of a new version of its website to accommod... |
Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH announced that it has started mass production of direct green (5... | In a move to strengthen the industrial research capabilities of the III-V Lab, Alcatel-Lucent Bell L... |
LED lighting company Cree Inc. has announced a two-year extension of the strategic agreement that it... | The US Air Force Office of Scientific Research is funding a program to build inexpensive, next-gener... |
Nanosurf, a maker of atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopes, and Zurich Instruments, a prov... | Precision optics design company Davin Optronics Ltd. has announced the appointment of Graham Cole to... |
Sofradir, an advanced infrared detector manufacturer for military, space and industrial applications... | NKT Photonics, a manufacturer of Koheras fiber lasers, has announced that its distributed feedback (... |
ILX Lightwave Corp. announced the donation of $10,000 worth of ultralow-noise laser diode instrument... | Brush Engineered Materials Inc. announced that it has changed its name to Materion Corp., effective ... |
Vision Engineering Ltd. has set up a manufacturing services division for optical, mechanical and ele... | Optics Balzers AG, an optical coatings and components company, saw sales revenue jump 25 percent in ... |
Industrial laser micromachining process manufacturer JP Sercel Associates Inc. announced that Dr. Ro... | Amy Eskilson has joined Photonic Products Group Inc. as its vice president of sales and marketing, t... |
Boston Micromachines Corp. (BMC) announced Monday that it had received a $100,000 Phase I SBIR contr... | As a result of its recent acquisition of Schott Lithotec’s synthetic fused silica technology, ... |
Three-dimensional and display technologies developer 3DIcon Corp. announced the appointment of Dr. B... | Qioptiq has begun procedures to divest its molding unit of Qioptiq Polymer Inc. in La Verne, Calif.,... |
A pilot program testing LED fixtures aboard several Navy ships and submarines is under way.
The ... | The optical communication market is well-positioned for growth between 2011 and 2015, despite modest... |
Solar3D Inc. has announced that it will use semiconductor processes to enable low-cost, mass product... | The International Congress at Laser Optics Berlin, to be held March 19 to 21, will be organized by t... |
LED lighting and technologies solutions provider Bridgelux Inc. announced the appointment of George ... | Proximion Fiber Systems AB announced the opening of new production facilities in Kista in response t... |
A new advance from Philips Lumileds is promising to simplify the design process for LED solutions, w... | Image Sensors Europe 2011, which will take place from March 22 to 24, will offer in-depth analyses o... |
Edmund Optics announced that its Third Annual Higher Education Grant program has been expanded to in... | Boosting undersea cable capacity without increasing optical bandwidth, upgrading fiber to radio freq... |
Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $50 million contract to deliver 50 AAS-44C(V) multispectral targetin... | Those who knowingly aim laser pointers at aircraft will be charged with committing a federal crime s... |
Electronic and electro-optic components provider GigOptix Inc. has signed a definitive merger agreem... | Alfalight Inc. has announced a strategic investment and technology development agreement with In-Q-T... |
The Optoelectronics Research Center has purchased the DPN 5000 System from Illinois-based NanoInk. T... | David F. Welch, co-founder, executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Infinera Corp., h... |
In recognition of his advancement of nonlinear photonic technologies, a €1.7M ($2.4M USD) resea... | Business
A near-infrared fluorescence imaging guided system designed for the da Vinci Si Surgical System was ... | Superlenses fabricated from perovskite oxides are simpler and easier to fabricate than metamaterials... |
A new approach to detecting internal damage in planes and other objects that employs a simple handhe... | By exposing inner-ear cells and heart cells to infrared optical signals, scientists have found that ... |
Fluorescent diamond “defect centers” are being used to create efficient single-photon so... | NASA recently began tests of a new multicapability microscope that is expected to help scientists st... |
A low-power laser — similar to the common office laser pointer — can cause gold and carb... | By coating iron oxide nanorods with silica, scientists have found that when they apply a magnetic fi... |
A nonsurgical photodynamic therapy (PDT) procedure is being developed to destroy tissue infected by ... | A microscopic cloak made of graphene could change the way bacteria and other cells are imaged.
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With intensity a million times brighter than sunlight, a new synchrotron-based imaging technique off... | Full 3-D simulations of a tabletop laser-plasma wakefield accelerator were achieved in just a few ho... |
Advances in the design and fabrication of gradient index (GRIN) optics are leading to smaller, less ... | A microcamera for endoscopy applications developed by a German collaboration promises to be so inexp... |
Light-triggered chemistry can help move individual molecules around inside living cells, sending the... | A new research collaboration will be formed by Boston University and the University of California, D... |
Cells may control genes by simply stretching them, a discovery that could pave the way for applicati... | A nondestructive infrared imaging technique has exposed organic compounds (amides) surviving in 50-m... |
Plasmonic structures can slow light waves over a broad range of wavelengths, verifying the “ra... | A new technique creates extended and knotted 3-D optical traps that produce “bright” kno... |
A new lens designed by engineers at Ohio State University enables microscopic objects to be seen fro... | An extremely sensitive Raman sensor promises to provide new ways to detect a wide range of substance... |
An electrochemical circuit in which microwaves communicate with a vibrating mechanical component 100... | A miniature laser diode has been created that emits intense light at a single wavelength, making it ... |
The ability to observe and control single atoms individually in a lattice of light, to change their ... | Controlling the way light is scattered in graphene has been achieved, providing a new tool for the s... |
A laser technique that can measure interactions between proteins tangled in a cell’s membrane ... | An advancement that will improve solar cell efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs involves using... |
An atom laser that behaves exactly like a light laser has been developed, opening up new possibiliti... | New information on the electronic structure of atoms and molecules is now available because of first... |
Philipps-Universität Marburg is working with Leica Microsystems on microscope technology that w... | Using pulses in the soft x-ray spectral region, scientists at the University of Kiel have demonstrat... |
The latest winners of the Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize have been named, with prizes going t... | When the space shuttle Discovery returned recently after its last mission to the International Space... |
Accelerated electron bunches and the plasma wave produced by the strong laser light that drives them... | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will go into the final round of the Excellence Initiative II... |
An etching method has been revealed that can precisely shape and position quantum dots, making it po... | PicoQuant GmbH has issued an invitation to scientists to submit single-photon-counting data taken wi... |
The first all-optical switch suitable for single-photon quantum communications has been developed at... | A measurement technique claiming to be 100 times faster than any existing method can measure the dyn... |
The speed of surface-emitting lasers has been increased four times to an error-free data rate and re... | Nanosurf, a maker of atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopes, and Zurich Instruments, a prov... |
Technology patents from Oxford Instruments will be auctioned off at ICAP Ocean Tomo’s Spring 2... | Excelitas Technologies Corp. has announced record photon-detection efficiency and low dark counts in... |
A multitouch holographic optical tweezers interface for the iPad lets even novice users move and man... | A new minimally invasive tool that closes wounds using a laser takes its inspiration from a laser we... |
Using an exquisitely thin sheet of light, a newly developed microscope reveals the 3-D shapes of cel... | A new advance from Philips Lumileds is promising to simplify the design process for LED solutions, w... |
Quantum circuits based on optical multimode interference (MMI) are being used to advance quantum com... | A microscope created by scientists at the University of Manchester shatters the record for the small... |
An ultrasensitive electronic skin has been developed that can detect chemicals and biological molecu... | Scientists at Duke University have developed a new noninvasive optical technique that uses a laser t... |
Finding life on Mars could get easier with a creative adaption to a common analytical tool that can ... | Researchers are developing a new type of biological and chemical sensor that has few moving parts, i... |
The Navy’s Free Electron Laser (FEL) has set a record for power generation, blasting through... | Research & Technology