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Photonics Companies Go Green, Naturally Optoelectronics firms worldwide are going green by recycling, reducing energy use and even installin...	Lasers Help Fabricate Solar’s Future Etching, scribing and isolating are essential functions in solar cell manufacturing, and lasers play...
New Multi- and Hyperspectral Cameras Cover Diverse Applications A new snapshot multispectral imager enables real-time, dynamic applications; its sister line-scan hy...	MicroLED Arrays Find Applications in the Very Small Although relatively new, these arrays already are being commercially exploited and have the potentia...
Multispectral Optical Coatings Are Tough, Versatile for IR Applications Hybrid diamondlike carbon (h-DLC) coatings for multispectral use combine the hardness of protective ...

Metallic “sandwich” boosts solar cell efficiency A new combination of metal and plastic increases the efficiency of organic solar cells by 175 percen...	Incoming asteroid! Set lasers on “vaporize” As this issue went to press, an asteroid roughly half as large as a football field – and with ...
Sprinkled silver nanocubes enhance light absorption Just as salt sprinkled over a piece of meat enhances its flavor, tiny silver cubes sprinkled at rand...	Unique waveguide provides pinpoint control of light A tunnel-like device that channels light effectively into a point just a few nanometers across may l...
Photonic FEL helps fingerprint drugs Combining a free-electron laser and a photonic crystal makes it easier to identify a drug than using...	Delicate systems observed with quantum physics Groups of photons prepared in certain quantum states can noninvasively probe ultrasensitive objects ...
FEL pulse temporal profile made in a FLASH The temporal profile of an individual free-electron laser (FEL) pulse now can be measured with femto...	Hot graphite shines new light on laser-driven fusion A new strongly heated graphite experiment has left an international team of researchers with some un...
Nanomechanical fiber goes beyond light transmission A new dual-core optical fiber that can perform the functions of signal switches, routers and buffers...	The rise of the boson-sampling computer Despite the widespread research on quantum computing, nobody has built a machine that uses quantum m...
Microactuator flexes under laser light A microscale actuator that flexes like a tiny beckoning finger under a burst of laser light may poin...	Photons can sense each other Photons can “sense” each other and coordinate their separate paths through a complex mat...

Prism Awards honor innovations in photonics An early-stage diagnostic tool for skin cancers, a portable device to test for toxins in water and f...	Residential solar market rises As module prices fall, solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is seeing an increase in uptake – an...
OPIC, OPIE aim to keep photonics growing Scientists, engineers and industry leaders from around the world will combine their expertise to kee...	Halation Photonics completes funding round Halation Photonics Corp. of Suzhou, China, announced in December the completion of its second fundin...
LG begins OLED TV rollout LG Electronics of Seoul, South Korea, began accepting preorders for its 55-in. WRGB organic LED (OLE...	50-kW laser weapon passes tests Rheinmetall AG’s new 50-kW high-energy laser weapon technology demonstrator has tested success...
AFL employees receive patents Employees at AFL of Spartanburg, S.C., have received patents for developing fiber optic products and...	LightPath reduces IR manufacturing costs 30% Through an R&D initiative, LightPath Technologies Inc. of Orlando, Fla., has reduced its infrare...
Shutterfly to license Kodak imaging patents Digital photo product and service provider Shutterfly Inc. of Redwood City, Calif., has agreed to li...	People In The News Among the five winners of Lockheed Martin’s Innovate the Future challenge are James Mutitu, wh...
Moves & Expansions Carl Zeiss Canada has expanded its reach into the Canadian clinical microscopy market through a new ...	Sumitomo mass-produces Thunderbolt cable Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. of Tokyo, the first company to receive Thunderbolt certification f...

Peel-and-stick solar cells add more than flexibility Unlike their stiff, inflexible cousins, new peel-and-stick thin-film solar cells can be peeled off l...

Problem-Based Learning in Photonics Education “Your graduates know plenty of technical facts, but they don’t know how to use them to s...

Optical Shop Safety: Awareness and Administration An expert in the field introduces the most common hazards and pitfalls – and what to do about ...

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