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BEAM ANALYSIS: Beam shaping improves diode-laser performance
While high-power diode lasers are attractive for applications in which size and efficiency matter, other inher...
OPTICAL ASSEMBLIES: Light comes to the computer chip
Optical technology can break the bottleneck of density and power consumption inside computing systems. Equally...
OPTICAL TWEEZERS: Optical trapping empowers biophysics
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Newly available to broad audiences, optical-tweezers technology is becoming easier to implement and operate, a...
PHOTONICS INDUSTRY NEWS
JDSU providing optical components to NIF
July 2, 2009--JDSU (Milpitas, CA), supplier of optical components for telecommunications, medical, and ...
Newport's Photovoltaic Laboratory receives ISO/IEC accreditation
July 2, 2009--Photonic solutions provider Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA) announced that the Photovolt...
DARPA selects Pranalytica as one of three to continue development of high-efficiency mid-IR QCLs
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June 30, 2009--The US's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Pranalytica Inc....
New Products Online
Optical-fiber switches speed analytical measurement equipment
Piezosystem Jena has developed and manufactured a broad range of optical multiplexer/fiber switches for all st...
SmartQuantum launches ultra-low-noise single-photon detector
SmartQuantum has launched an ultra-low-noise single-photon detector.
The SQLightSensor is a family of ultra-...
Chameleon OPO is alignment free, fully automated, and computer controlled
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The compact Chameleon OPO (optical parametric oscillator) from APE is the first completely alignment free, ful...
Technology News
Transformation optics: from invisibility to visibility
July 1, 2009--The concept of transformation optics, used in the design of so-called "invisibility cloak...
NIST develops single-ion trap for sensing force and photons
July 1, 2009--Miniature devices for trapping ions are common components in atomic clocks and in quantum...
Light-scattering method enables understanding of nanobubble formation, behavior
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June 29, 2009--Using a light-scattering analysis method called nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA), sc...

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