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European Laser Market
Jul 1, 2009 — Advances in technology are creating new opportunities in certain segments of the laser market, despite the current economic slowdown. What follows are reports on some of those areas where those advancements are besting the downturn. Rapid manufacturing Fibre lasers are steadily moving in on traditional laser applications – and developing totally new markets. John Tinson, vice president of sales at SPI Lasers in Southampton, UK, told me that the current largest sales sector is metals and...
Fingerprint tech gets tested
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The characteristics that help to differentiate one set of fingerprints from another were first defined in 1892 by Sir Francis Galton. In the decades since, fingerprint identification has become a staple of forensic investigations. Originally, it...
Holographic disc can store 100 DVDs
NISKAYUNA, N.Y. – GE Global Research, the technology development unit of General Electric, has created a disc that is the size of a standard DVD yet can hold the equivalent of 100 DVDs’ worth of information. The disc contains holograms similar to those you might...
Light Made Audible
NEUHERBERG, Germany, July 1, 2009 -- Using a process that makes light audible, bioengineers in Germany developed a technique that allows 3-D optical and fluorescence imaging of tissue to a depth of several centimeters, allowing whole-body visualization of adult zebra fish.
Making nanotubes respond to rainbows
LIVERMORE, Calif. – Taking their cue from the eye, researchers have constructed a carbon nanotube that responds to all the colors of the rainbow. With some changes and more work, they could even have a nanometer-size photovoltaic device. The eye detects light...
Photonics Technologies....An Important Driver in the German Economy
Jul 1, 2009 — With photonics, innovations are no longer used simply to fix limited problems in other industries. There is a significant amount of technology cross-fertilization, where the combination of several optical and optoelectronic technologies leads to new...
Schott Solar opens in Albuquerque
ALBUQUERQUE,N.M. – Schott Solar, the first facility in the world to produce both concentrated solar power receivers and photovoltaic (PV) modules, was inaugurated May 11 in Albuquerque. The company’s flagship North American plant represents the first solar...
Special effects captured in a whole new light
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Imagine an imaging system that doesn’t require a camera or reflective markers but instead uses small photosensors and solid-state projectors that transmit near-infrared light to capture movement. The technique could improve the way special effects...
To the moon and back, many times a minute
FORT DAVIS, Texas – The moon is spiraling away at 3.8 cm, or about an inch and a half, a year. But don’t worry. Given that it sits at a distance of about 385,000 km, or just under 240,000 miles, there will be no noticeable change in its appearance for a long, long...
Unscrambling holograms gains high-res images
PRINCETON, N.J. – There’s a catch-22 to cameras. Either they have high resolution and a narrow field of view, or they have a wide field of view at a loss of resolution. One reason why resolution is poor is that many light rays never make it to the detector because...
First Acoustic ‘Superlens’
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., June 25, 2009 – The world’s first acoustic “superlens,” an innovation that could have practical implications for high-resolution ultrasound imaging, nondestructive structural testing of buildings and bridges, and novel underwater stealth technology, has been...
Ultrafast Astronomical Camera
GARCHING, Germany, June 22, 2009 – The next generation of instruments for ground-based telescopes took a leap forward with the development of a new ultrafast camera that can take 1500 finely exposed images per second even when observing extremely faint objects.
Revolutionizing Spintronics
MENLO PARK, Calif., June 16, 2009 – Physicists at the Department of Energy's (DoE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have now confirmed that there is an exotic type of material that could one day provide dramatically faster, more efficient computer chips.
4 Photons Controlled on Chip
BRISTOL, UK, June 9, 2009 – A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Bristol Centre for Quantum Photonics has demonstrated the ultraprecise manipulation skills needed to make a major advance toward quantum technologies by precisely controlling four photons on a...
Light's Might Harnessed
PASADENA, Calif., June 5, 2009 – A nanoscale device created at the California Institute of Technology exploits the mechanical properties of light to create an optomechanical cavity in which interactions between light and motion are greatly strengthened and enhanced. It harnesses...
A handy way to detect life
BALTIMORE – The next time the soil of an alien world is examined for life, scientists may already have a good idea where to dig. Thanks to a new technique, they might be able to remotely detect life from the comfort of Earth, pinpointing promising locations for...
From battlefield to lighting fixture
Jun 1, 2009 — Rather than diverting laser-guided weapons, a technology developed under a US Air Force contract is now blending and controlling multiple LEDs in civilian applications. The military effort originally focused on developing a countermeasure system...
Get ready for laser-powered 3-D TV
IRVINE, Calif. – Last October, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America Inc. announced that it was bringing to market laser-powered television. Called LaserVue, it lights up the screen with high-color-purity red, green and blue laser light instead of white lightbulbs...
Guiding reindeer through a warming world
FINNMARK, Norway – While most Americans think of reindeer only in conjunction with holiday joy, the real animals and their herders live in the Arctic year-round and are experiencing global warming’s serious effects on snow cover and migration patterns. To help...
On the trail of arsenic
AMHERST, Mass. – In stories of murder by poisoning, both fictitious and real, arsenic has long been a key player. Just the mention of the word brings to mind dark deeds, secret plans and – the family deck? Indeed. CCA-treated wood, a type of pressure-treated...
Patent Reform Act of 2009: benefit v. detriment
Jun 1, 2009 — If put into effect, the Patent Reform Act of 2009 will change US patent law considerably for the first time since 1952. Already the bill has ignited a conflict between those who say it will improve the quality of patents while limiting needless...
Throwing curved light bullets
TUCSON, Ariz. – Researchers have devised a way to curve laser beams in the air by converting a standard directional beam into a self-bending Airy beam. The development may help with atmospheric applications, particularly with the ability to redirect lightning to...
When things don’t go swimmingly
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Tiny single-celled creatures known as phytoplankton form the base of the ocean’s marine food web and, together, produce half the world’s oxygen. Generally speaking, if all goes well, these creatures, of which there are many species, swim to the...
Optical Device Records in 5-D
MELBOURNE, Australia, May 22, 2009 – Optical recording technologies such as DVDs could have a storage capacity of 1.6 terabytes, or the equivalent of 2000 discs, announced researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. The new optical device records in 5-D...
Cloak has Tapered Waveguide
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 20, 2009 -- Using a specially tapered optical waveguide instead of exotic metamaterials that require complex nanofabrication, researchers have created a simplified invisibility cloak that, unlike previous ones, works for all colors of the visible spectrum. The...

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