http://www.photonics.com/Splash.aspx?PID=5 This is the syndication feed for photonics.com. Some football fans can never get close enough to the action – even if they happen to score front-row seats on the 50-yard line, they want to be http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53771 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT A new infrared camera that detects pollutants such as sulfur dioxide – a major cause of acid rain – could help scientists identify and con http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53770 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT The first installment of this series addressed the organizational aspects of shop safety: policy statement, hazard awareness training, documentation, http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53769 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Various gain media used in laser technologies differ greatly in essential properties such as wavelength ranges and tunability, pumping options, effici http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53768 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT A new laser system based on a fiber seed and a DPSS power amplifier produces UV and green wavelengths, allowing manufacturers to reduce costs while in http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53766 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT A new flexible 90- to 120-W ArFi excimer laser system enables high-volume multiple-patterning manufacturing as well as 450-mm wafer applications. http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53765 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT The entertainment industry owes a lot to photonics: From laser light displays at concerts to new lens technology for 3-D and other special effects in http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53764 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT With high color quality and speed – and low cost – trilinear color cameras provide an attractive performance-to-cost ratio in line-scan co http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53763 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT A new spectroscopy method takes advantage of a fundamental property of thin films – interference – and could help optical devices like LED http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53758 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT There may be a way around Heisenberg’s famous Uncertainty Principle, a law of the quantum world that says precise measurement is impossible. Th http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53754 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Graphene is even more efficient at converting light to electricity than was previously known, making it an ideal building block for any device that re http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53750 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT By changing the position of a mirror inside a vacuum, virtual particles can be transformed into real photons that can be experimentally observed. http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53749 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT The largest fiber optic local area network (LAN) in the world, pioneered by Sandia National Laboratories, is expected to reduce energy costs by 65 per http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53748 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT A photodetector that uses carbon nanotube films of varying widths can gather light in and beyond visible wavelengths, a finding that promises to make http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53747 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT 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 http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53746 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT 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 holog http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53745 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Nearly 40 percent of UKIVA (UK Industrial Vision Association) members will exhibit at the 2013 Total Processing and Packaging Show June 4-6. The commi http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53744 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Magnolia Solar Inc., a subsidiary of Magnolia Solar Corp., has demonstrated a flexible copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar cell with 13 perc http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53743 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT The 2013 Materials Research Society conferred its Outstanding Young Investigator Award to Alexandra Boltasseva, a Purdue University assistant prof http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53742 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Optical component and crystalline device manufacturer Inrad Optics Inc. of Northvale, N.J., has trimmed its workforce by about 9 percent by cutting ei http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53741 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT