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VIBRATION ISOLATION: Effective vibration reduction stabilizes laser beams
The impact of vibration isolation and optical-table damping on laser beam stabilization for both short- and lo...
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Presidential Award honors teachers of math and science
The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching is the highest recognition that a ma...
IMAGING & DISPLAYS: Complex monolithic optics bring ruggedized solutions to digital cinema
An integrated monolithic assembly can replace the complex optical train that magnifies and projects a microdis...
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PHOTONICS INDUSTRY NEWS

Photovoltaic electricity to be cheaper than conventional by 2014, say students
July 2, 2008--Now that Americans are paying gas prices approaching those that many Europeans have been ...
Montana State University researchers receive $750,000 laser grant from NASA
July 1, 2008--Montana State University (MSU; Bozeman, MT) researchers received a three-year, $750,000 g...
StockerYale awarded evergreen contract for laser diodes
July 1, 2008--StockerYale (Salem, NH), a designer and manufacturer of structured light lasers, light-em...
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Product Highlights

High-speed cameras selected for slow-motion imaging at Beijing Summer 2008 Olympics
July 2, 2008--Photron (San Diego, CA) has been chosen to provide the high-speed cameras for the 2008 Su...
New interferometer measures extreme aspheres without using null optics
June 25, 2008--QED Technologies (Rochester, NY) has just released a new version of its interferometer t...
Vision Components introduces new single-board intelligent camera
June 23, 2008--The 5 megapixel VCSBC4012 single-board smart camera for industrial applications features...
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Technology News

Lasers used to cool GaAs substrates
July 3, 2008--Photoluminescent upconversion experiments have confirmed that laser cooling techniques ca...
Mobile lidar station measures large-scale wind fields
July 3, 2008--Researchers at Ocean University in China have developed a mobile light-detection-and-rang...
Laser-based sensor detects explosives from 20 yards away
June 26, 2008--Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated a super-sensitive explosives detector tha...
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