At the Photonics21 annual meeting on March 28, European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes annou... | Nearly 200 incidents of lasers being shone at aircraft have been reported in South Africa over the p... |
Rainer Blatt has received the Stern-Gerlach Medal from the German Physical Society for his work in t... | The two organizations have partnered to develop advanced atomic layer deposition techniques to enabl... |
Emcore Corp., a provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber opt... | The optoelectronic components and assemblies supplier will distribute Zurich-based Optotune Inc.’s a... |
Optical communications and laser solutions provider Oclaro Inc. is buying optical modules and compon... | The ultrafast laser specialist has teamed with Laboratoire Charles Fabry to open a joint research la... |
Ferdinand Braun Institute, which works closely with Jenoptik Diode Lab GmbH of Berlin-Adlershof, was... | The optical communications and laser components provider is outsourcing its Shenzhen, China-based fi... |
Dr. David L. Morse will be elected as executive vice president and chief technology officer of the s... | The laser diode manufacturer expanded its sales organization in Europe and the Asia-Pacific through ... |
In her new role, Patricia Seniw will oversee the day-to-day operations and will investigate new grow... | This association of key European laser research institutions entered into a new phase of collaborati... |
To represent the more than 5000 lighting manufacturers and $50 billion in annual sales, the global l... | The University of Colorado has completed an exclusive option agreement with Double Helix LLC of Boul... |
The organic LED technologies company filed a Form F-1 registration statement with the US Securities ... | Smaller-than-expected duties on imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China, announ... |
High-definition CCD camera manufacturer Toshiba is collaborating with ISee3D Inc. to build an advan... | The femtosecond fiber laser manufacturer will collaborate with Disco Corp. to develop new lasers and... |
Michael Haase was appointed JK Lasers’ new German sales manager to support its growing German presen... | By 98 percent, shareholders have approved the acquisition of Goodrich Corp. by United Technologies C... |
The molecular beam epitaxy supplier and R&D company imec have agreed to continue their collaboration... | The Continuum laser business unit of GSI Group Inc. was awarded a $4.8 million contract from the Fre... |
The optics manufacturer has entered into a $1.1 million research and development contract with Rayth... | The quantum dot product company received a $1.38 million contract from the Department of Defense for... |
Masimo Corp. announced it acquired all the assets of Spire Semiconductor, which will now operate und... | The optoelectronics company has signed Thermo Fisher Scientific as its first value-added reseller fo... |
The Optical Society has established the Alhazen Egyptian OSA Local Section, the society’s first loca... | The metrology and spectroscopy company opened a new subsidiary in San Pedro Garza Garcia to directly... |
The Technical University of Berlin and its technology transfer partner ipal have closed a €500,000 c... | The photonics tools manufacturer has acquired the Octavius line of ultrafast lasers and ultrafast pu... |
In response to continued growth and business development, the optoelectronics company has added two ... | Machine vision components and systems sales in North America increased 5 percent in 2011 to nearly $... |
The optoelectronics company expanded its lighting portfolio through the acquisition of privately hel... | Sidney Wright, who previously worked at the laser micromachining manufacturer from 1996 to 2006, rej... |
Beate Sauter was appointed director of European sales at the laser diode and electro-optical subsyst... | The medical device maker and Lumenis, a medical laser company, have signed a five-year contract to e... |
The projection display company reported 19 percent growth revenue and a 40 percent reduction in cash... | Ching Tang, OLED inventor and winner of the Wolf Prize in chemistry, joined the quantum dot product ... |
A prototype optical chip that uses light rather than electrons sent over wires is the first parallel... | LOS ANGELES, March 7, 2012 — From the ability to incorporate a hybrid tunable laser on silicon... |
Optical transceiver company OneChip selected Fabrinet as the contract manufacturer for its photonic ... | A £466,000 grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will help University of... |
The electro-optics manufacturer received a patent to produce resistive glass tubes with nonlinear gr... | Former White House staffer Linda Chavez has joined the board of directors at thin-film coatings, opt... |
Despite posting a loss for the year and expressing disappointment with the slowdown in solar equipme... | The organic LED technologies, materials and service provider announced its results for the fourth qu... |
The company will sell certain assets of its Kodak Gallery online photo services to the Internet-base... | Hamilton Thorne expanded its distribution partnership with the German supplier, giving Leica Microsy... |
The two companies will collaborate to bring Luxtera’s silicon photonics intellectual property and kn... | The electronic and electro-optic components supplier booked a $1.8 million purchase order for its 10... |
John Millerick was elected to the board of directors at the detection and sensing company’s... | Business
Plasmon resonance at the nanoscale, the phenomenon responsible for the vibrant hues of stained-glass... | A recent experiment has shown that a many-body system of ultracold atoms can be used as a quantum si... |
A biosensor made of fluorescent proteins that are embedded in the shell of microscopic marine algae ... | Titanium nitride, the first nonmetal to be added to the short list of surface-plasmon-supporting mat... |
An experiment designed to observe quantum interactions at the Planck scale could, if successful, hel... | Synthesized starfruit-shaped gold nanorods could strengthen applications that rely on surface-enhanc... |
Cell membrane repair in a living organism was observed for the first time in real time using a high-... | A collaboration between the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and State University of New York (SUNY... |
A groundbreaking laser mixing technique can manipulate electron-hole collisions to create many frequ... | A new 3-D configuration for photovoltaic cells can generate 20 times more power than standard fixed ... |
A swarm of small satellite-operated lasers could deflect asteroids headed for a catastrophic collisi... | For the first time, optical nanoantennas can harness the power of plasmonics to study the dynamics o... |
An optogenetic technique that uses light to target specific populations of neurons in the brain was ... | In a new approach to invisibility cloaking, French researchers propose isolating or cloaking objects... |
A dual-laser pump-and-probe system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory enables the identifica... | Photoacoustic tomography, which combines the best qualities of ultrasound and light absorption, can ... |
Specialized x-ray lasers reveal the inner workings of magnets, a discovery that could lead to smarte... | Simple calcium carbonate precipitation at ambient conditions can produce microlens arrays of uniform... |
A molecule capable of emitting turquoise light within living cells three times brighter than ever ac... | The 192 lasers fired in unison at the National Ignition Facility this week delivered a record 1.875 ... |
The search for an optimal electrochemical capacitor has been held up by the need for an electrode wi... | A laser device that vaporizes photocopied ink from paper could soon be in offices worldwide. |
Using reflections from a non-mirrored surface, a new ultrafast time-of-flight imaging technique reco... | The occurrence of multiple solitary optical waves, called dark photovoltaic spatial solitons, has no... |
A newly developed metamaterial construct could create holograms in the infrared range for the first ... | Ultrafast pulses of laser light have been fired at oxygen, nitrogen and carbon monoxide molecules an... |
With the help of a laser-based lightning rod, laboratory-generated lightning was coaxed to strike th... | An optical clock based on ytterbium ions is so accurate that, if such a timepiece were in use since ... |
A tunable system of ultracold atoms was used to create a honeycomb-like structure similar to that fo... | Nanostructured materials built from artificial DNA molecules can modify light in very specific ways ... |
A multidirectional fiber laser could herald flexible 3-D displays and medical tools that activate th... | Weed growth can now be impaired using an exact carbon dioxide laser beam in the infrared range to de... |
A new 3-D printing technology uses two-photon lithography to rapidly create detailed objects on the ... | As materials undergo phase transitions, ultrafast “sonograms” are revealing the dynamic changes in t... |
Using eyewitness video and terrestrial lasers to map the March 2011 Tohoku tsunami that devastated J... | Drawing inspiration from nature’s ability to shape a petal, a new tool to manufacture three-dimensio... |
A new fabrication process using femtosecond lasers creates 3-D nanostructures in materials, an essen... | A new laser frequency comb soon may be able to determine whether life on other planets really exists... |
A prototype optical chip that uses light rather than electrons sent over wires is the first parallel... | A better fundamental understanding of how to optimize a cell’s performance could bring organic solar... |
Mimicking living breast tissue through the new Raman-based imaging tool of vibrational spectral micr... | Using ultrafast laser pulses to knock one electron out of its natural molecular orbit as a kind of "... |
A new way to cool semiconductor membranes paradoxically uses lasers to bring their temperature down ... | In the weird realm of quantum physics, it is not possible to accurately specify the momentum of an o... |
NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter has now been circling Mars for 10 years, and its main camera — the therm... | Although it was known previously that many sea creatures glow — a phenomenon known as bioluminescenc... |
An innovative confocal lens behind a new microscope produces results in seconds rather than hours an... | Research & Technology