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SPIE Photonics West Attendance Breaks Records
With approximately 19,390 presenters, exhibitors and visitors, attendance at SPIE Photonics West grew six percent this year, event organizers said. SPIE Photonics West, the leading photonics, laser, and biomedical optics event, took place Jan. 22-27 at the Moscone Center. Enthusiasm was high amo... MORE >>
Novel High-Res IR Camera Announced
Researchers at Northwestern University have created a new infrared camera based on Type-II InAs/GaSb superlattices that produces much higher resolution images than previous infrared cameras. Image of graduate student of Northwestern University’s Center for Quantum Devices as taken with t... MORE >>

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Glasses-free 3-D could be coming to a mobile display near you
While developing optical interconnect technology, engineers at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories realized what they had created could be much more: a multiangle, glasses-free 3-D d...
Printable library makes one-of-a-kind optics affordable
Inspired by the need for optics used in a specialized tool for photovoltaic research, a professor at Michigan Technological University has created an open-source optics librar...
Plasmonics help ‘bulk’ silicon emit visible light
A commonly used form of silicon has been made to emit broad-spectrum, visible light, but challenges remain before it can form practical electronic-photonic devices. As engi...
Atoms hollowed by laser form novel plasma
A highly unusual plasma composed of hollow atoms has been created using one of the world’s most powerful lasers. The surprising result shows that a little-explored regio...
Metamaterials observe photonic spin Hall effect
A metamaterial surface constructed of V-shaped gold nanoantennas was used to obtain the strongest signal yet of the photonic spin Hall effect – a quantum mechanical opti...
Electronic chips heal after laser blasts
A new self-healing integrated chip could recover in microseconds from problems ranging from low battery power to total transistor failure. Engineers at California Institut...
Efficiency record set in ultrahigh-speed communications
Ultrafast supercomputers that operate at speeds 100 times faster than current systems may now be one step closer to reality, thanks to researchers at IBM working on a DARPA-fu...
FAMOS aims to make OCT light sources more compact
Optical coherence tomography light sources will shrink to one-fifth the size of conventional devices with the help of a tapered laser being developed by the European Union pro...
Novel use of EMCCD sharpens images
Sharper microscopic images may be in sight with a new method that uses standard low-light electron multiplying CCD (EMCCD) cameras in a new way to reduce noise and minimize im...
New metamaterials are easily manufactured
By combining theory and practice, two groups of Penn State scientists have designed low-loss optical metamaterials that are easily manufactured for custom applications with di...
‘Metascreen’ forms ultrathin invisibility cloak
A new invisibility cloak can hide 3-D objects from microwaves while in their natural environment, in all directions and from all of the observers’ positions. Most inv...
IR holography helps firefighters blinded by the light
Firefighters may have a new tool when it comes to finding a person hidden in a thick veil of smoke and intense flames: lensless infrared digital holography. The new imaging me...
Vacuum-based electron acceleration may be useful for laser plasma fusion
A proof-of-principle test has demonstrated that an electron beam can be accelerated by a laser in free space, a feat never before accomplished at such high energies. The break...
Carbon nanotube detector works in the infrared at room temperature
A photodetector that uses carbon nanotube films of varying widths can gather light in and beyond visible wavelengths, a finding that promises to make possible a unique set of ...
Sandia houses world’s largest fiber optic network
The largest fiber optic local area network (LAN) in the world, pioneered by Sandia National Laboratories, is expected to reduce energy costs by 65 percent when fully operation...
Virtual photons become real in a vacuum
By changing the position of a mirror inside a vacuum, virtual particles can be transformed into real photons that can be experimentally observed. In a vacuum, there is ene...


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The Measurement of High Optical Densities (up to 8 Abs) in the Near-Infrared
The Measurement of High Optical Densities (up to 8 Abs) in the Near-Infrared
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Hollow Silica Waveguides for Mid-Infrared Power Transmission and Spectroscopy
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