QPC Wins $12M Laser Contract
Nov. 30, 2007
QPC Lasers Inc. announced today it has won a contract to develop its BrightLase semiconductor...
T-rays Safer for Screenings
Nov. 29, 2007
A portable new device that uses T-rays -- a much safer form of radiation than x-rays -- to see...
Crash Warning System Tested
Nov. 28, 2007
A laser-based ranging system has been developed to assess the performance of automobile collision...
Buckyball Formation Observed
Nov. 28, 2007
A Sandia National Laboratories researcher looking for flaws in nanotube durability was unexpectedly...
Precision Optics to Cut Jobs
Nov. 27, 2007
Precision Optics Corp. Inc. announced it will reduce its work force as a result of operating losses...
U-M Invests in Arbor Photonics
Nov. 27, 2007
A student-managed venture capital seed fund at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business...
3-D Photonic Crystals Sought
Nov. 27, 2007
Photonic crystals, which contain properties that give butterfly wings their shimmering colors, are...
Korea Funds Nanotech Work
Nov. 26, 2007
A team of nanotechnologists in the US and Korea has been selected to receive a $5 million grant...
Olympus to Buy Gyrus Group
Nov. 26, 2007
Olympus Corp. of Japan announced that it will acquire Gyrus Group PLC, a UK-based manufacturer of...
Sensor Maker Acquires Visyx
Nov. 26, 2007
Sensor and sensor-based systems manufacturer Measurement Specialties Inc. announced it has acquired...
General Dyamics Awarded
Nov. 26, 2007
General Dynamics C4 Systems and General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems recently announced...
Particles Send Drugs Remotely
Nov. 20, 2007
Remotely controlled nanoparticles that, when pulsed with an electromagnetic field, release drugs to...
Verizon Tests 100 Gb/s
Nov. 19, 2007
Verizon said it completed the first field test of 100 Gb/s optical transmission, on a live,...
Raydiance, Rutgers Collaborate
Nov. 19, 2007
Raydiance Inc., an ultrashort-pulse (USP) laser startup founded by Internet entrepreneur and former...
Light Manipulation Improved
Nov. 16, 2007
A special hollow-core photonic crystal fiber has been used to manipulate light a million times more...
Arasor, ZTE to Make Displays
Nov. 16, 2007
Arasor International Ltd. of Mountain View, Calif., an Australian-based maker of an optoelectronic...
QD Spins Made Identical
Nov. 16, 2007
Scientists are closer to developing novel devices for optics-based quantum computing and quantum...
Sun's Twin Discovered
Nov. 16, 2007
The sun’s chemical composition may not be unique, as some previously thought. Peruvian astronomers...
'Trapped Rainbow' Slows Light
Nov. 15, 2007
A new technique proposes using metamaterials that refract light negatively to slow down, stop and...
Aixtron to Install OLED Tool
Nov. 15, 2007
Aixtron AG, an Aachen-based provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, has...
Science Network On Track
Nov. 15, 2007
Two of the nation’s leading research networks -- the US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Sciences...
CTS to Cut 103 Jobs
Nov. 14, 2007
CTS Corp. announced this week it intends eliminate 103 jobs by the end of the year as part of a...
Force to Be Reckoned With
Nov. 14, 2007
Advances such as miniscule submarine-type machines that destroy cancer cells could be one result of...
Hot Topics, Bright Minds at PW
Nov. 13, 2007
The hottest topics, trends and developments in biomedical optics, lasers, LEDs, fiber optic...
GD to Make Navy Consoles
Nov. 13, 2007
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems was awarded a contract potentially worth $83 million...
Raytheon Buys Sarcos Unit
Nov. 13, 2007
Raytheon Co. announced this week it has acquired the robotics technologies and capabilities of...
UK Examines PET Utility
Nov. 13, 2007
Positron emission tomography, or PET scans, can help clinicians diagnose and treat some cancers,...
Babies Drive Robots
Nov. 12, 2007
Small robots ringed with sensors are allowing infants with special needs to be in the driver's...
LHC Detector Installed
Nov. 12, 2007
One of the most fragile detectors for the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment has been...
Luxtera Demos 40-Gb OAC
Nov. 12, 2007
Luxtera Inc. announced today it has sampled a 40-Gb optical active cable (OAC), which it is...
Mini Oven Heats Fluids for LoC
Nov. 9, 2007
By embedding a thin-film microwave transmission line between a glass substrate and a polymer block,...
Hot Embossing Rivals Molding
Nov. 9, 2007
Hot embossing, a recently optimized technology in which glass is heated to high temperatures and...
MKS Buys Yield Dynamics
Nov. 8, 2007
MKS Instruments Inc. announced today that it has acquired privately held Yield Dynamics, a provider...
QD Advancements on Agenda
Nov. 8, 2007
The Quantum Dots 2007 conference will bring together manufacturers, materials and equipment...
UNC Symposium Attracts 100
Nov. 7, 2007
More than 100 members of the optoelectronics community attended the sixth annual symposium of the...
CyOptics Acquires PLC Maker
Nov. 7, 2007
CyOptics Inc., a developer of indium phosphide (InP) optical chip and component technologies, today...
BAE Wins $18M Contract
Nov. 7, 2007
BAE Systems has received an $18.5 million, 30-month contract from DARPA to develop an imaging...
STM Made 100 Times Faster
Nov. 6, 2007
A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) has been developed that can image individual atoms on a...
'Smart' Optical Chip Proposed
Nov. 5, 2007
A new theory could lead to "smart" optical microchips that adapt to different wavelengths of light,...
Award Funds STED Microscope
Nov. 5, 2007
A $1.1 million award from the National Science Foundation will enable the California NanoSystems...
Boston Scientific Sells Units
Nov. 5, 2007
Medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific Corp. today announced it is selling its Cardiac...
A Tiny Sensor for Tiny Hearts
Nov. 2, 2007
A sensor the size of a grain of rice could reduce the cost of noninvasive biomagnetic measurements...
LED Lighting Raises $16.5M
Nov. 2, 2007
LED Lighting Fixtures Inc. (LLF), a developer of LED fixtures for general lighting applications,...
Neurons Glow in 'Brainbow'
Nov. 2, 2007
The circuitry of the brain is being imaged as never before thanks to a multicolor fluorescent...
Digital Drives Kodak Profit
Nov. 1, 2007
A near tripling in digital earnings over this time last year helped Eastman Kodak Co. report a $37...
Chemtura Divests Monomers
Nov. 1, 2007
Specialty chemical manufacturer Chemtura Corp. announced the sale of its optical monomers business...