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Photonics Accelerates Bandwidth Race Technological developments in photonics are the future of mobile communications, from speedy interco...	Data Demands Drive Free-Space Optics Light-based options promise to pick up where radio-frequency technology leaves off. In wireless c...
QDs Are Entering the Mainstream Since their discovery in the 1980s, quantum dots have been quietly gaining momentum, making slow but...	Thermoelectric Cooler Controller Design Made Simpler TEC controller design experts offer tips to lower the cost and simplify the design of the devices, a...
Fast Camera Improves Surveillance on the Seas Case study: Automatically imaging the ocean and sending real-time pictures back to a base station en...

Near-perfect optical absorber developed A tunable device coated with a film 100 times thinner than the wavelength of incident light absorbs ...	Theoretical calculation proposes using heat to power QCLs Heat generated in a quantum cascade laser (QCL) – something that normally causes the lasing to...
Mechanical oscillator transfers optical signals Suppose you needed two PCs to exchange information. The process would be relatively easy because the...	Metamaterials manipulate light on a microchip Controlling light on a microchip is no easy feat, but new theoretical designs for miniaturized optic...
‘Hyper’ Ramsey excitation confirmed Shining laser light onto atoms and molecules is the best way to obtain precise information about the...	Tiny probes dramatically boost Raman signals Novel gold nanoparticles can goose the signal from Raman reporters, or molecules whose jiggling atom...
CERN detector to measure supershort pulses Conventional measurement techniques soon will be too slow to measure phenomena taking place on times...	Defying expectations, x-ray laser supercharges atoms Using a single flash from the world’s most powerful x-ray laser, researchers have stripped a ...
Recipe for supercheap hydrogen: sunlight + water + rust Water and rust can make supereconomical hydrogen from sunlight, a team from École Polytechniq...	Raman researchers set a trap to cool ions Trapping ions with cold atoms cools the ions and could lead to experiments that generate molecular ...

LEDs’ longevity could cause problem for market LEDs are known to last longer than traditional bulbs, but that very trait could actually have a nega...	Moves & Expansions Southern Photonics of Auckland, New Zealand, has partnered with I-Wave Corp. of Tokyo to provide sal...
People In The News OneChip Photonics of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, has hired Jonathan Boocock as vice president of produc...	Demand for free-space optics devices to grow The global market for free-space optics (FSO) transmitter and receiver link devices used in stationa...
VC funding for solar drops 50 percent in 2012 Venture capitalists (VCs) invested half as much in the solar industry in 2012 as they did the year b...	Newport’s Photovoltaic Lab offers wafer testing Newport Corp.’s Technology & Applications Center’s Photovoltaic Lab in Irvine, Calif...
Under One Roof Advanced Thin Films, a unit of Idex Optics & Photonics, has announced that the brands and capabi...

Photon funnel makes the most of sun’s rays A solar “funnel” exploits materials under elastic strain and could provide a new way of ...

Laser Safety Training: How Much Is Enough? Experts offer practical advice for selecting and scheduling laser safety training. For people who...

ETOP - Meeting the Future of Global Optics Education Every couple of years, scientists, technicians and educators in optics and photonics come together t...

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