Electronic Noses
Oct. 30, 2008
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a new...
Caltech Suing Camera Makers
Oct. 30, 2008
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is suing six electronics giants that it says are...
QPC Gets Default Notices
Oct. 30, 2008
Laser diode maker QPC Lasers, currently limping along with a bare-bones staff as it attempts to...
Bigger, Better Diamonds
Oct. 29, 2008
A diamond may be forever, but the very qualities that make it a superior material for many...
Chirped Fiber Improves Pulse
Oct. 29, 2008
By introducing a radial chirp into a photonic crystal, researchers in Germany and Russia have...
Optical Fiber, Silicon Core
Oct. 28, 2008
Scientists at Clemson University for the first time have been able to make a practical optical...
Oerlikon Selling Optics Unit
Oct. 27, 2008
OC Oerlikon announced today it is selling its Balzers-based Oerlikon Optics business to the unit’s...
Schott Invests in Moritex
Oct. 24, 2008
Germany-based specialty glass maker Schott announced today it has acquired 70.8 percent of optical...
Plasmons Power Patterning
Oct. 23, 2008
A new lithography process that resembles a needle playing an album on a traditional LP turntable...
PV Efficiency Hits 25%
Oct. 23, 2008
There is a new world record in solar cell efficiency. The University of New South Wales’ ARC...
Imager Detects Bruised Fruit
Oct. 22, 2008
Ever bought what you thought was a unblemished apple or peach, only to have it develop a...
Quantum Gases Made Visible
Oct. 22, 2008
Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have, for the first time, succeeded in...
Show Bigger, Even Better
Oct. 22, 2008
Four renowned symposia featuring the presentations of 3275 research papers by the brightest minds...
CERN Parties Like It's 2009
Oct. 21, 2008
Despite a malfunction that has shuttered the world's largest particle accelerator until 2009,...
$45M Contract to NetworkFab
Oct. 20, 2008
NetworkFab, a wholly owned subsidiary of Agilent Technologies Inc., has been awarded a $45 million...
TEM Probes Between Atoms
Oct. 20, 2008
A powerful, $15 million transmission electron microscope (TEM) that has an atomic-level probing...
QPC Resumes Limited Ops
Oct. 20, 2008
QPC Lasers has resumed operations on a limited basis but may still file for bankruptcy if it is...
Tunable Noiseless Amplifier
Oct. 17, 2008
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint...
Micronic Losses Lead to Cuts
Oct. 17, 2008
After posting a third quarter loss of 35 million SEK (about $4.7 million), Sweden-based...
ESI Acquiring Zygo
Oct. 16, 2008
Photonics-based technology company Electro Scientific Industries Inc. (ESI) announced today it will...
New Optics Field Emerges
Oct. 16, 2008
A new research field called transformation optics may usher in a host of radical advances including...
Proteins Controlled by Light
Oct. 16, 2008
Scientists have discovered a way to use light to control the activity of certain proteins, which...
AAI Nabs $242M Contract
Oct. 15, 2008
AAI Corp., an operating unit of Textron Systems, announced today that it has received a contract...
Gecko's Stickiness Surpassed
Oct. 15, 2008
An improved carbon nanotube-based material creates, for the first time, directionally varied...
GE Jolts Solar Pioneer
Oct. 15, 2008
GE Energy Financial Services announced that it will invest $2.5 million in Monrovia-based Soliant...
T-rays Advance 1-pixel Camera
Oct. 15, 2008
A terahertz version of the single-pixel camera developed by Rice University researchers could lead...
Supercontinuum Fiber Lasers
Oct. 14, 2008
A consortium led by ultrafast fiber laser manufacturer Fianium Ltd., is to develop and evaluate...
OLEDs Respond to Touch
Oct. 10, 2008
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (Fraunhofer IPMS) will unveil the...
Light-sensitive DNA
Oct. 10, 2008
Researchers at Kiel University have succeeded in showing that DNA strands differ in their light...
Superconducting Thin Films
Oct. 9, 2008
The US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has reported that they...
Center Aims for Smarter LEDs
Oct. 8, 2008
A new research center that aims to replace existing lighting with smarter and greener LEDs and...
QinetiQ Wins $206M Contract
Oct. 7, 2008
The Space and Naval Warfare (Spawar) Systems Center has awarded the Systems Engineering Group (SEG)...
ICALEO: Global Eye on Lasers
Oct. 7, 2008
This year will mark the 27th Annual ICALEO (International Congress on Applications of Lasers and...
Particle Physicists Get Nobel
Oct. 7, 2008
An American and two Japanese physicists whose theoretical insights have provided a deeper...
Sofradir Buys Electrophysics
Oct. 6, 2008
France-based advanced infrared detector maker Sofradir announced Monday that it will acquire...
LaserFest Celebrates 50 yrs
Oct. 6, 2008
The Optical Society (OSA) and the American Physical Society (APS) are partnering to celebrate the...
Flir Nabs $125M Contract
Oct. 3, 2008
Flir Systems Inc., maker of thermal imaging and stabilized camera systems, announced that it has...
Zeiss Invests in Nanoscribe
Oct. 3, 2008
Oberkochen-based optical company Carl Zeiss announced it has acquired a 40 percent stake in startup...
Visible Thought Process
Oct. 2, 2008
According to an international team of scientists, the introduction of fluorescent indicator...
Sensor Peers into Electrons
Oct. 1, 2008
Physicists have exploited a special "flaw" in diamond crystals, manipulating them into monitoring...
Fiber Optic Screening Tool
Oct. 1, 2008
Researchers at NorthShore University HealthSystem and Northwestern University have discovered that...