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Streak Cameras Improve Materials Research New calibration options enable significant improvements in the accuracy of new and old devices, whic...	CMOS Sensors Increase Inspection Speed and Accuracy As they get faster and offer higher resolution and sensitivity, CMOS sensors continue to impress the...
Plastic Optics Provide Precision Polymer optics are taking everyday applications by storm, thanks to advances that make plastic more ...	Charge-Injection Devices Overcome Radiation Effects An industry expert offers a primer on the advantages of charge-transfer-device imagers. In imagin...
Surveillance System Enables 24-Hour Target Acquisition A new multidetector system uses multiple-wavelength sensors and lasers for rangefinding, target spot...

FEL fires new life into old technology A high-power laser has amped up decades-old electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectrometers to m...	Semiconductor etching monitored in real time A nondestructive optical technique that simultaneously etches features onto a semiconductor wafer&rs...
Nobel Prize in physics recognizes quantum-world experiments Two independent but related quantum optics methods for measuring and manipulating individual particl...	Wearable sensor maps disasters on the fly A wearable sensor system that includes a stripped-down gaming camera and a laser rangefinder could g...
Nanotubes improve hologram projection Holograms can be generated by harnessing the conductive and light-scattering qualities of carbon nan...	Dark energy camera takes first pictures After eight years in the making, the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created, the 570-megapix...
Signals amplified by light alone The discovery that the force of light in a nanoscale switch is strong enough to move an optical wave...	Electrons in QDs seen absorbing, emitting light The special energy states of electrons confined in quantum dots have been observed for the first tim...
Squeezed light measures moving target A novel quantum mechanical squeezing technique that precisely tracks the phase of optical waveforms ...

Solar woes have not eclipsed market for lasers for solar tech Europe’s photovoltaic (PV) market is facing challenges including cuts in government subsidies ...	Milestone Marks Major Optics Achievements The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) honored the late Elias Snitzer, the fat...
People In The News Photonic crystal fiber inventor Philip Russell was elected as The Optical Society’s (OSA) 2013...	ESO celebrates its 50th anniversary The European Southern Observatory (ESO) celebrated 50 years in October since the signing of its foun...
Moves & Expansions Edmund Optics of Barrington, N.J., plans to consolidate its Pennsburg, Pa., facility into its corpor...	Startup to commercialize terabyte discs Businesses and consumers may soon have a cheaper, more manageable way to store large amounts of digi...
NRC licenses laser enrichment facility A first-of-its-kind facility for the laser enrichment of uranium has received a license from the US ...

Laser pulse improves black silicon’s solar efficiency A solar material that takes advantage of a spectrum totally unused by standard cells could be the ke...

A View from the Inside In every industry, in good economies and in bad, the need exists for skilled entry-level workers. Bu...

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