Airborne Laser Window Nears Completion
Pittsburgh's Contraves Brashear Systems LP has accepted the conformal window for the US Air Force's...
Air Force Telescope Open to Researchers
The director of the US Air Force's Office of Scientific Research, Joseph Janni, announced that...
Algorithms Improve Spectral Imaging
An imaging spectrometer in an airplane or satellite can picture the Earth's surface while...
Algorithms Improve Spectral Imaging
A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry broke the theoretical...
Lasers Break an Optical Barrier
A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry broke the theoretical...
Semiconductors Deposited in Fiber Preforms
Researchers at Syracuse University have developed a technique that could lead to the production of...
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Components Promise 1.7 Tb/s Transmission
Researchers at Fujitsu Laboratory Ltd. in Richardson, Texas, a division of Fujitsu Network...
Camera Images the Unseen Eclipse
A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) video camera attached to a 400-mm reflector...
Multimode Fiber Transmits at 10 Gb/s and over 3000 m
Separate tests performed on the 50-µm InfiniCor multimode fiber, which is produced by Corning...
FireMapper Gets Set for Flight
The FireMapper multispectral radiometer is being prepared for airborne deployment next year by the...
2-m Telescope Takes Its First Look
EOS Technologies Inc. (EOST) in Tucson, Ariz., hosted a "first light" party to demonstrate the...
Laser Optics Improve Gasoline Yield
Fluid catalytic cracking of oil feedstocks produces a large portion of the US gasoline supply. This...
Interferometer Seeks Gravity Waves
A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena used a laser...
Green Organic LED Shows High Efficiency
LOS ANGELES -- An organic light-emitting diode (LED) that relies on electrophosphorescence may...
Optical Holes Produce Better Memories
With today's technology, compact discs hold about 1 bit of information per square micron. Associate...
Hybrid Laser Expands Imaging Range
There is potential for a laser that simultaneously produces output at multiple wavelengths in...
Best Lasers May Be Misanthropes
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Quantum dots are antisocial, and that's good news for Sandia National...
Laser Missile-Jamming System Passes Tests
A laser-based directional infrared countermeasures system that was demonstrated by Northrop Grumman...
MOEMS Advance
MAINZ, Germany -- Researchers discussed developments and obstacles at the Third International...
Monolithic Mosaic Gratings Are Ready for Subaru Telescope
Richardson Grating Laboratory of Rochester, N.Y., completed the production of three mosaic...
Optoelectronic Devices Go Organic
CAMBRIDGE, UK -- Light-emitting diodes made from organic polymers were first developed at Cavendish...
Lasers Jump-Start Catalytic Research
How do you study chemical processes that last only an average of 100 femtoseconds? And how do you...
Fiber Optics Keeps the Fleet Shipshape
Researchers at Systems Planning and Analysis Inc., with funding from the Office of Naval Research...
Piezoluminescent Skin Senses Stress
Physicists in Saga, Japan, deposited a film on a ceramic substrate that emitted strong visible...
Superradiant Scattering
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studied Rayleigh...
Research Trio Demonstrates AlGaN Camera That Images in UV, Digitally
North Carolina State University in Raleigh, Night Vision Laboratory at Fort Belvoir, Va., and the...
Ultrathin Films Retain Bulk Properties
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Polymer films less than 100 nm thick have molecular properties nearly...
Human Vision Simplifies Sensing Technique
A fluorescence detection method that uses the human eye as a key component promises to take...
German Researchers Employ Fiber Laser to Weld a Fine Seam
Scientists from the Laserzentrum Fachhochschule Münster in Steinfurt, Germany, and the...