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Head-Up Displays Keep Speed and More in Sight Despite current issues, including cost, experts say projecting information on a windshield is a futu...	Laser Car Ignition Dream Sparks Multiple Approaches Laser car ignition systems promise better fuel efficiency and lower pollution than conventional ones...
New Smart Cameras Provide Quality Control in a Box PC cameras are compact vision systems that can deliver up to 90 gigaflops of processing power to sup...	DPSS Lasers Overcome Glass Process Challenges Industrial laser glass processing holds promise for an increasing range of applications, including b...
DLC Coatings Enhance IR Cameras Applying new diamondlike carbon multiple-layer coatings to front-surface forward-looking infrared le...

New class of 3-D optical cavities demonstrated Nanoscale three-dimensional optical cavities made from metamaterials can generate the most powerful ...	I can’t see the rain … against my headlights Driving at night through a downpour or a heavy snowstorm could become much easier if a sophisticated...
Terabits transmitted by twisted light Do you ever wish you could download that Netflix movie you’ve been dying to see in a matter of...	“Spintronic” OLED promises brighter displays A new “spintronic” OLED that produces an orange color holds promise for brighter, cheape...
Robotic camera mimics eye movement Piezoelectric materials that allow a robot’s camera eye to replicate the muscle motion of a hu...	Portrait of a single atom The shadow of a single atom was photographed for the first time using a superhigh-resolution microsc...
Doping MOFs leads to red, blue emission A new technique that employs a nanoporous material to efficiently identify neutrons could provide a ...	Computer chips made rewritable with light A technique for making rewritable computer chips uses laser light to control the spin of an atom&rsq...
Atoms signal their entanglement Two atoms 20 m apart have signaled their entanglement, a significant step forward for the study of q...	Plasma’s potential for photolithography pursued Work over the past decade to harness the energy-generating mechanism of the sun has yielded bright h...

Same economy bears different results Three top photonics companies recently announced quarterly results, and the mixed results reflect th...	Mars! Cameras! Action! NASA’s Curiosity rover landed safely on Mars on Aug. 5 – with no fewer than 17 cameras o...
Turbulence predicted for LED front-end equipment market “The LED front-end equipment market will experience turbulent investment cycles in the coming ...

Laser probes pollution particles The most detailed images to date of airborne soot particles, generated with x-rays from the Linac Co...

Silicone eyed for extending solar cell lives Coating photovoltaic cells with liquid silicone could yield more robust, sustainable solar cells at ...

Designing a Laser Lab: What to Do – and What Not to Do Laser lab design can be tricky. Even when lab construction falls to a project manager, he/she often ...

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