Volume 40, Issue 7

In the past, when the German Armed Forces Research Establishment (Greding, Germany) wanted to test IR aircraft-tracking technology, it had to fly one or more military jets overhead...

A micromachined endoscopic scanner that combines a 2-D scanning mirror with optical-coherence tomography (OCT) can scan living tissue and provide real-time 3-D images.

At the California Institute of Technology (Caltech; Pasadena, CA), researchers have demonstrated a new two-dimensional waveguide that transports energy in the form of surface ...

Ever since the discovery that the resolution of optical instruments is limited by the diffraction of light, engineers have tried to push that limit.

Large-flat-panel-display (FPD) televisions are the looming "killer application" driving a strongly optimistic flat-panel-display market with liquid-crystal-display (LCD) and plasma...

At the 2004 Society for Information Display meeting (May 23–28, 2004; Seattle, WA), Microvision Inc. (Bothell, WA) unveiled a prototype of a new head-up display (HUD) for use ...

Detection of traces of explosive or poisonous gases like methane, hydrogen cyanide, ammonia, or acetylene is sometimes desired in places that are inaccessible or dangerous to ...

The theoretical 25% efficiency limit for light production from organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on pi-conjugated polymers has been challenged by new calculations based...

Scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center are keen to see how the compact laser altimeter they have put together for the MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, ...

Hoping to raise $20,000 for cancer research, "Team Photon" will participate in the Pan-Mass Challenge, Aug. 7–8. The 200-mile bike trek from Sturbridge, MA, to Provincetown, MA...

A research team based at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) has designed, fabricated, and tested laser mirrors made entirely from porous silicon (PSi).

Potential advantages of mosaicked multispectral image acquisition include cost, physical size, and mechanical robustness.

Scientists at the Central Laser Facility (CLF) of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Didcot, England) have developed novel adaptive-optic mirrors to steer and improve the beam...

Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) devices are similar to ordinary photovoltaic devices in concept and form, except that TPV devices produce electricity from IR as well as visible light...

The Pentagon's first effort to build a usable high-energy laser weapon is running far behind schedule and well over budget.

InGaN-based surface-emitting laser has a horizontal cavity; Terahertz QWIP responds at 42 µm; Odd-looking photonic-crystal-waveguide corner has low transmission loss; MORE...

Novel deployment methods and new ways of combining and processing data from multiple devices will make optical sensing even more ubiquitous than it is today.

Genetically engineered bioluminscence enables optical imaging of the spread of disease, the effectiveness of drug therapies, and the expression of genetic traits inside of living...

As wafer fabs transition from 248-nm optical lithography to 193 nm and beyond, reticle-inspection systems are adopting sophisticated image-enhancement techniques to keep pace....

A MEMS device diffracts light but uses the returning zero-order light as its output. The device is well suited for wavelength management in both telecommunications and spectroscopy...

Recent improvements in short-pulse-width, short-wavelength UV diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers have resulted in robust, production-capable systems.