Laser, Optics, Fiber Optics & Photonics News

Photonics News and laser product coverage of optics, lasers, fiber optics, detectors, imaging and photonics by leading experts.

Web Exclusives

Online Features

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
Newly available to broad audiences, optical-tweezers technology is becoming easier to implement and operate, a...
More Features   

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
June 30, 2009--The US's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Pranalytica Inc....
More Photonics News   

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
The compact Chameleon OPO (optical parametric oscillator) from APE is the first completely alignment free, ful...
More New Products Online   

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
June 29, 2009--Using a light-scattering analysis method called nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA), sc...
More Technology News   
ADVERTISEMENT
Right1
Right2
Right
ADVERTISEMENT
Right3
Bottom1
Bottom2
Bottom3