Scientists in Germany have developed a mobile, resonant, multiphoton ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer (REMPI-TOFMS) for environmental analysis and industrial process...
I am responding to your June editorial "Should governments fund research," (see Laser Focus World, p. 156). The basic argument that government funding displaces industrial funding...
The invention of the atom bomb changed, forever, the way in which humans relate to the basic matter of the universe. Today the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Nuclear Nonprolifera...
The prospect of building world-class astronomical observatories affordably became reality in October 1997 with the dedication of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at the University...
Solid-state and semiconductor laser technologies have developed significantly during the past several years, with advances ranging from new materials to process improvements. ...
By the time this issue of the magazine falls into your hands, the summer of `98 will be almost over, but I`ve just finished an excellent book that I can wholeheartedly recommend...
Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) has bought LANNET (Tel Aviv, Israel) from Madge Networks NV (Wexham, Slough, England) for $117 million. LANNET makes Ethernet and asynchronous...
Responding to customer complaints about an excess of options in optical-transceiver termination and coupling devices, seven fiberoptic-components suppliers have agreed to a set...
Altitun AB (Kista, Switzerland), which entered the solid-state-laser market in February, has launched a wholly owned US subsidiary, Altitun Inc. (Pepperell, MA). Mark Graf, founder...
A grou¥of European universities and telecommunications companies have teamed u¥on a research project to create a high-speed network with all-optical switching. The Switchless...
The light source of the laser range finder is a collimated diode laser with an output beam of divergence less than 1 mrad. It produces a spot A on the first obstacle located at...
Scientists at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY) have demonstrated three-color emission from gallium nitride-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) deposited...
A pair of comets plunged into the atmosphere of the Sun on June 2--a rare event captured by the Large-Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) aboard the Solar and Heliospheric...
Efficient use of lasers as tools for chemical analysis has been a dream of spectroscopists since the power of tunable-laser spectroscopy was discovered in the 1970s. The spectra...
A flexible, conjugated-polymer laser can be made by incorporating into the design a periodically modulated substrate that acts as a resonator to create a distributed-feedback ...
Using femtosecond laser pulses and time-resolved microscopy, researchers at the University of Essen (Essen, Germany) observed Newtonian rings in a variety of materials, an optical...
Miniature flat-panel-display technology was a hot topic among the attendees at last May`s Society for Information Display conference (Anaheim, CA). The strengths and weaknesses...
Adaptive-optics technology originally developed by the US military to clear up images from satellites is now being used in reverse to take the sharpest photographs ever of the...
A team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has fabricated thousands of nanowires simultaneously with widths as small as 66 nm—about one...
Laser Power Corp. (San Diego, CA) has received two orders for its series MLM blue and green microlasers with a combined value of more than $500,000. The lasers will be used in...
It is now possible to create and rewrite one`s own compact disks (CDs). The new Compact Disc-ReWritable (CD-RW) drives and media introduced in 1997 by Philips Electronics N.V....
The University of California Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic (Irvine, CA) has received $4.1 million to expand its Laser Microbeam and Medical Program, which gives medical...
Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory (ARL; University Park, PA) and the US Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL; Livermore, CA...
Researchers at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Newport News, VA) reached a milestone when they generated 155 W of infrared light at 5 µm with their free...
Eagle Optoelectronics (Boulder, CO), a producer of wavelength-division multiplexing systems for optical receivers, has joined the Wave Wireless Networking Division of SPEEDCOM...
