UWaterloo IQC Selects Laser from Zecotek Medical Systems

Zecotek Medical Systems Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, a developer of photonic and biophotonic technologies used in the high-tech industry and medical diagnostics, today announced that its continuous-wave narrow-band titanium:sapphire laser, model TIS-FD-08/A-scan-WV, has been selected by the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) in Ontario. The ultrawide tunable laser will be used by the institute in the field of nano-optics (the investigation of single semiconductor quantum dots) and quantum computing. Zecotek's Ti:sapphire lasers are manufactured under contract by Tekhnoscan Lasers of Novosibirsk, Russia.