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Clemson’s Optical Center Builds on Nufern Partnership
Clemson University’s Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET) has opened the Nufern student office suite in the Advanced Materials Research Laboratory. MORE >>
Photonics Societies Launch National Initiative
The National Photonics Initiative — an alliance seeking to unite experts from industry, academia and the government to advance photonics R&D, to grow the US economy, and to improve national security — officially launched today. MORE >>

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Photonics Integrated with CMOS Under HELIOS Project
Europe is strongly positioned to design and manufacture silicon photonic devices, now that HELIOS, a four-year project to integrate photonics with electronics, has ended succe...
Teem Photonics Names Market Tech as US Distributor
Passively Q-switched microlaser maker Teem Photonics has appointed Market Tech of Scotts Valley, Calif., as its US distributor, Market Tech announced this week. Privately...
UK Photonics Group Elects New Leaders
The Photonics Leadership Group (PLG), which includes members from more than 50 UK photonics manufacturers, associations and research institutes, elected a new chairman and chi...
IMRA Files Patent Suit Against Coherent in Germany
IMRA America Inc. filed a patent infringement suit in Germany Friday against two Germany-based subsidiaries of laser maker Coherent. The patent relates to using picosecond and...
UK Health Care Investment Includes Fiber Optics
The development of fiber optic sensors that monitor the condition of intensive care patients is among the projects that will benefit from a £32 million (about $49 millio...
Spin-controlled Photonics Could Streamline Communications Components
A new class of metamaterials with the potential to control the spread of light more easily could help in the design of more streamlined components for communications technolog...
Commitment to Photonics Public-Private Partnership Renewed
At the Photonics21 annual meeting this week, photonics industry representatives in Europe renewed their commitment to a public-private partnership under Horizon 2020.
IPG Photonics: Materials Processing Drives Sales Up 29%
Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics Corp. today reported a profit of $35 million, or 67 cents per share, for the first quarter of 2013. The total was up 17 percent from the same q...
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Magnolia Solar Inc., a subsidiary of Magnolia Solar Corp., has demonstrated a flexible copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar cell with 13 percent efficiency. The new cel...
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...
Bladder cancer treatment gets robotic upgrade
Treatment of bladder cancer, the sixth most common cancer in the US, hasn’t changed much in more than 70 years. It still involves crude instruments and contortion of the...
Industrial Fiber Laser Sales Boost Coherent’s Q2
Record bookings for materials processing — including the first large order for its 1-kW industrial fiber laser — helped Coherent Inc. report a profit of $15 million (61 cents ...
Alphanov, NKT Photonics Collaborate on Photonic Crystal Fiber Interfacing
Alphanov, the Optics and Laser Technology Center of the Route des Lasers cluster, and NKT Photonics of Birkerød, Denmark, have partnered to develop interfacing solutions for p...
Optical Fiber Design Uses Anderson Localization
The first practical application of “Anderson localization” — a Nobel Prize-winning phenomenon proposed in 1958 — has yielded a new method for transmitting light through optica...
Photonics Researchers Among Young Investigator Recipients
Five photonics researchers working in areas from nonlinear materials to undersea wireless optical communications to solar power are among the 16 recipients of Young Investigat...
Telerobotics Treats Bladder Cancer Better
Removing tumors from the lining of the bladder, a procedure called transurethral resection, could become more tolerable for the patient and easier for the surgeon using a tele...


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120-W Tailored Bar Module
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Cosite Interference Mitigation System
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Hollow Silica Waveguides for Mid-Infrared Power Transmission and Spectroscopy
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