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Laser Industry News 2008 p2:

• Ralph Jacobs, LLNL laser scientist, dies at age 65
  December 19, 2008--Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL; Livermore, CA) laser scientist and Laser Focus World (Nashua, NH) Editorial Advisory Board member Ralph Jacobs died in his sleep on August 29 at age 65, only one week after retiring from LLNL.
• CARS microscopy group's new, more sensitive method yields key bio insight
  December 18, 2008--The research group at Harvard University known for its work on CARS (coherent anti-Stokes Raman) microscopy has now developed a new type of highly sensitive microscopy. The new approach, based on stimulated Raman scattering (SRS), enables imaging in living cells and tissues--sans the fluorescence that can perturb biological processes.
• Battelle, MBARI, NOAA collaborate on NDIR spectroscopy system to predict climate change
  December 18, 2008--Battelle says it is working with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to manufacture and market a non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) spectroscopy-based device to will help scientists interpret and forecast climate change. The new instrument measures the partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2) in the ocean and atmosphere.
• Lighting Research Center's LED Lighting Institute to go "on the road"
  December 17,2008--In response to requests from lighting professionals across the United States, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting Research Center (LRC; Troy, NY) has taken the LED Lighting Institute "on the road."
• 2009 Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference announces call for papers
  December 17, 2008--The Coordinate Metrology Society (Issaquah, WA) announced its call for papers for the 25th Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC).
• Imagine Optic delivers adaptive optics systems to Orion high-power laser
  December 16, 2008--Imagine Optic (Orsay, France), a manufacturer of Shack-Hartmann wavefront metrology and adaptive optics solutions, has delivered laser metrology and adaptive optics systems to Britain's Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE). The two systems, designed by Imagine Optic and delivered by BFI Optilas (U.K.), will become an integral part of the forthcoming Orion high-power laser. Orion is set to replace the HELEN laser--which has been in operation since the 1970s--by 2010.
• Marketplace Seminar features Tom Baer keynote, 'Greening of photonics' forum
  December 15, 2008--Dr. Thomas Baer, executive director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center (SPRC; Stanford, CA) and a major figure in the photonics community, will be the keynote speaker at Laser Focus World's Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar 2009. The Seminar will also feature "The Greening of Photonics" Technology Forum, with presentations on solid-state lighting, photovoltaics, and laser-based sensors used for environmental monitoring.
• Far-UV spectroscopy enables observation of hottest known white dwarf
  December 15, 2008--A team of German and American astronomers say that white dwarf KPD 0005+5106 is among the hottest stars ever known, based on observations using NASA's space-based Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE). The star, they say, has a surface temperature of 200,000 K-- so hot that its photosphere shows emission lines in the UV spectrum, a phenomenon never before seen.
• Adelaide to establish >$30 million photonics research labs
  December 15, 2008--The Australian government has granted $28.8 million to help establish a new Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing at the University of Adelaide in 2009. An additional $3.8 million will come from other sources. The grant will fund the building of new, specialized laboratories that will bring together leading scientists in fiber optics, lasers, luminescent materials, chemistry, protein science and the study of viruses.
• Kollmorgen wins $9.3M photonics service contract from US Navy
  December 15, 2008--The U.S. Navy has awarded Kollmorgen Electro-Optical Corp. (Northampton, MA) a $9.3 million contract for service of imaging systems on submarines, reports Mass High Tech, the journal of New England Technology. The contract requires Kollmorgen to perform field services, repair and support services for the AN/BVS-1 and the Photonics Mast Variant (PMV) imaging system.

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