Photonics.com: News & Features http://www.photonics.com/Splash.aspx?TID=25 This is the syndication feed for photonics.com. WHY 3-AXIS SCANNING? As the number of large area, web feed and remote applications that use laser processing continue to grow exponentially, Cambridge Technology’s 3 http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53735 Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT OPCO Laboratory News Release Our congratulations to NASA Mars Science Laboratory, for their extraordinary effort in designing, launching, and landing the Rover Curiosity on Mars http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=51705 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT Complete Laser Spectral Characterization Many laser applications, including high-resolution spectroscopy, optical remote sensing, cooling/trapping, and optical fiber communications, are highl http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=46771 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT VersaChrome™ Tunable Bandpass Filters Semrock now offers six VersaChrome tunable bandpass filters. These filters offer wavelength tunability over a very wide range of wavelengths by adjust http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=45498 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Mirrors Replace Lenses in UAVs Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) carry optical measuring equipment that is required to operate free of chromatic aberrations across a wide spectral ran http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=40808 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Lasers Steal the Show Advances that enable new treatments for cancer, better energy-efficient lighting, more robust communications systems, and other quality-of-life improv http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=40793 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Photonic Chip Holds World Map Using high-resolution optical lithography techniques important in microelectronics fabrication, researchers in Belgium have produced a terascale world http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=40789 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Exoplanet's Spectrum Revealed By studying a triple planetary system that resembles a scaled-up version of our own sun's family of planets, astronomers have been able to obtain the http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=40785 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Suss MicroTec Buys HamaTech Suss MicroTec AG has concluded contract negotiations to acquire HamaTech APE GmbH & Co. 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But a new technology makes them robust enough to continue operat http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=40745 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT X-ray Determines Cell Density Researchers usually have to destroy their samples to determine the densities and volumes of the different components which make up a biological cell. http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=40737 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT Spectranetics to Pay Feds $5M Excimer laser maker Spectranetics Corp. has agreed to pay the US $4.9 million in civil damages plus $100,000 in cash or property to resolve claims aga http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=40734 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT A Few Photons Control Atom The motion of a single atom in an optical trap has been controlled by the use of a fast feedback logic loop developed at Max Planck Institute of Quant http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=40733 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT IR ‘Eyes’ to See Back in Time When it is sent into orbit in 2014, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) will see even further back in time than its pre http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=40731 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT