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All-Fiber Probes Hold Promise for Medical Imaging Applications Optical fiber probes are still in the early stages of manufacturing, but filament fusion technology ...	Nanoscale Biomaterials Require Close Observation Replacement bones and blood vessels are just two types of artificial tissues that require deep-imagi...
DPSS Lasers Give Medical Device Manufacturing an Edge With a wide range of wavelengths, short pulse durations, high average powers and high pulse energies...	Beam Profiling Helps Make Medical Devices Better The amount of time and energy needed to invest in the setup and use of an untried, but useful, piece...
Electronics Augments Modern Process Control Spectroscopy Good wavelength accuracy and high sensitivity are key optical features of a spectrometer system, alt...	Aspheres Deal with Bigger Deviations New tools and the integration of measurement capabilities into design software are helping to solve ...

Single nanomaterial yields a laser rainbow Nanocrystals that produce red, green and blue laser light from a single material could lead to digit...	Coupled lasers cancel each other out The discovery that coupling two microlasers shuts them both off instead of emitting more light could...
Solar cell-like implant stimulates optic nerve A new retinal prosthesis that uses technology similar to that found in solar cells could restore sig...	Laser creates cheaper free-form optics A new process for fabricating small batches of nonspherical glass optical components will allow manu...
Single entangled photon creation unlocked A new technique can produce single photons with specific properties more efficiently and about 1000 ...	Release process holds promise for GaN semiconductors Nitride semiconductors grow only on certain surfaces, and their utility is limited by the substrate ...
Students’ QDs win regional Cleantech Challenge Students at the University of Utah recently won $100,000 and first place in the regional CU Cleantec...	Four-wave mixing generates superluminal pulses A novel four-wave mixing technique that restructures parts of light pulses to travel faster than the...
Gamma ray refraction could launch nuclear photonics An experiment in which gamma rays were bent like ordinary light overturns decades of theoretical pre...	First heralded single photon generated from silicon For the first time, a heralded single photon has been generated from a silicon chip. The discove...

Software gives photonics designers more power A new open source software platform will offer greater power and flexibility to designers of photoni...	LME 2012 expands educational offerings Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the May/June issue of LIA Today. LI...
Idex Buys Precision Photonics Idex Corp. of Lake Forest, Ill., has acquired optical components maker Precision Photonics Corp. (PP...	MetaStable Instruments Awarded Patent MetaStable Instruments Inc. of St. Peters, Mo., has received US Patent No. 8,139,234 for a technique...
WaveTec Vision Raises $16M WaveTec Vision of Aliso Viejo, Calif., has closed a $16.5 million financing round to commercialize i...	Schott Meets Congress Schott North America Inc. of Elmsford, N.Y., has met with US congressional leaders to discuss the im...
UDC to Provide OLED Materials Universal Display Corp. (UDC) of Ewing, N.J., will provide its UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent organi...	Advanced Photonix Secures Contract Advanced Photonix Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., has received a follow-on, 21-month, $1.5 million contrac...
JAI Acquires TVI Vision To strengthen its position in the prism-based line-scan camera industry, machine vision camera manuf...	Fluoptics Opens US Office To market and sell its offerings for preclinical in vivo fluorescence imaging, Grenoble, France-base...
Company Licenses Face-Tracking Tech Based in San Jose, Calif., DigitalOptics Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tessera Technologies In...	Ophir-Spiricon Receives Award Ophir-Spiricon of North Logan, Utah, was honored as the outstanding technology business of the year ...
Clinical Trial Next for Laser Technique Carl Zeiss Meditec AG of Dublin, Calif., and Jena, Germany, has received conditional approval from t...	Femtolaser Approved for Cataract Surgery Illinois-based Abbott’s iFS advanced femtosecond laser has received FDA clearance for use in c...
Schneider Kreuznach Expands into LEDs With almost 100 years of optical design experience, Schneider Kreuznach of Bad Kreuznach, Germany, h...	Hamblin, Lavery Join Hologenix Board Based in Santa Monica, Calif., Hologenix LLC, maker of Celliant technology, has completed its scienc...
SBIR Hall of Fame Inductee Sensors Unlimited, part of Goodrich Corp.’s ISR Systems business, has been inducted into the S...	B&W Tek Receives Patent B&W Tek Inc. of Newark, Del., has been awarded US Patent No. 8,135,249 for a fiber optic probe t...
Cooke Corp. Becomes PCO-Tech To better reflect its relationship with PCO AG of Kelheim, Germany, Cooke Corp. of Romulus, Mich., h...	Flir Awarded $18M for Imaging Systems The US Navy Expeditionary Combat Command has awarded Flir Systems Inc. of Wilsonville, Ore., a $17.9...
LIA, OSHA Renew Alliance The Occupational Safety and Health Administration of Washington and the Laser Institute of America o...	ASE Optics Europe Opened In Barcelona, Spain, ASE Optics Europe was launched to strengthen the European presence of Rochester...
Company Certified as DoD Supplier Zephyr Photonics of Zephyr Cove, Nev., has received accreditation as a Category 1A Trusted Source by...	Spectranetics Device Wins Approval Spectranetics Corp. of Colorado Springs, Colo., has received FDA approval for its GlideLight Laser S...

LED-like solar cell absorbs, emits light A new solar cell designed to be more like an LED, able to emit light as well as absorb it, could ach...

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