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Farmers Fuel Growing Market for Imaging Systems As imaging systems improve, they are increasingly taking to the fields and the skies to send back cr...	Optical Sensors Watch What We Eat Optics technologies are advancing food safety applications. Natural pathogens. Food fraud and adu...
Quantum Computers Appear – and Are Put to Work Actual quantum computers are likely a decade or more away, but advances today are bringing them clos...	CO2 Composite Cleaning Critical for Photonic Devices Advanced CO2 composite spray cleaning is an efficient and adaptable process for build-clean and main...
The Road from R&D to Commercialization Technology transfer programs in the US and abroad are champions to entrepreneurship, offering an eff...	Short-Pulse Q-Switched Lasers Enhance Precision Marking Applications A new subnanosecond operating regime outperforms fiber lasers – at a lower cost than ultrafast...

Glasses-free 3-D could be coming to a mobile display near you While developing optical interconnect technology, engineers at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories realized...	Printable library makes one-of-a-kind optics affordable Inspired by the need for optics used in a specialized tool for photovoltaic research, a professor at...
Plasmonics help ‘bulk’ silicon emit visible light A commonly used form of silicon has been made to emit broad-spectrum, visible light, but challenges ...	Atoms hollowed by laser form novel plasma A highly unusual plasma composed of hollow atoms has been created using one of the world’s mos...
Metamaterials observe photonic spin Hall effect A metamaterial surface constructed of V-shaped gold nanoantennas was used to obtain the strongest si...	Electronic chips heal after laser blasts A new self-healing integrated chip could recover in microseconds from problems ranging from low batt...
Efficiency record set in ultrahigh-speed communications Ultrafast supercomputers that operate at speeds 100 times faster than current systems may now be one...	FAMOS aims to make OCT light sources more compact Optical coherence tomography light sources will shrink to one-fifth the size of conventional devices...
Novel use of EMCCD sharpens images Sharper microscopic images may be in sight with a new method that uses standard low-light electron m...	New metamaterials are easily manufactured By combining theory and practice, two groups of Penn State scientists have designed low-loss optical...
‘Metascreen’ forms ultrathin invisibility cloak A new invisibility cloak can hide 3-D objects from microwaves while in their natural environment, in...

3 Questions Interview The first chair of Mi-Light, the Michigan Photonics Industry Cluster, Dr. Michelle L. Stock is curre...	Michigan launches photonics cluster IPG Photonics, Rigaku and Advanced Photonix Inc. are among the members of Michigan’s new photo...
Otto Schott Research Award now open Schott is accepting submissions for the 13th Otto Schott Research Award, which grants €25,000 (...	Lumera Laser becomes Coherent Kaiserslautern Lumera Laser GmbH has officially changed its name to Coherent Kaiserslautern GmbH. Coherent purchase...
Fraunhofer Center for Applied Photonics opens The UK headquarters for Europe’s largest contract research organization has officially opened ...	Patents The Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company Solar3D Inc. has filed a patent application in China to prot...
People In The News Jason Mulliner is now chief financial officer of optical components manufacturer Edmund Optics of Ba...	Moves & Expansions Moves & Expansions Laser measurement equipment maker Ophir Photonics of Darmstadt, Germany, has...
Collaborations Iridex Corp. of Mountain View, Calif., has announced a partnership with the privately held Peregrine...

Solar cells derived from trees Just as the leaves on trees capture sunlight and convert it to energy, so do solar cells – and...

ABET-ing on Accreditation The new ABET accreditation for optics/photonics engineering is good news for universities offering s...

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