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Block Engineering Gains Investor

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MARLBOROUGH, Mass., April 11, 2011 — Block Engineering, a quantum cascade laser (QCL) based spectrometer developer, announced that Michael L. Bickford of Vero Beach, Fla., has made a major equity investment in the company and has joined as one of its directors. With Bickford’s investment, the company said it is now positioned to expand its commercial markets. In addition to providing growth capital, Bickford brings his business experience in the spectroscopy market. Although the company has received more than $17 million in government product development contracts for microelectromechanical and QCL-based...Read full article

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    Published: April 2011
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    quantum cascade laser
    A quantum cascade laser (QCL) is a type of semiconductor laser that operates based on the principles of quantum mechanics. It is a versatile and powerful device used for emitting coherent light in the mid-infrared to terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Quantum cascade lasers were first proposed by Federico Capasso, Jerome Faist, Deborah Sivco, Carlo Sirtori, Albert Hutchinson, and Alfred Cho in 1994. Key features and principles of quantum cascade lasers: Quantum cascade...
    spectrometer
    A kind of spectrograph in which some form of detector, other than a photographic film, is used to measure the distribution of radiation in a particular wavelength region.
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