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Photonics Spectra - December 1999
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Clouds in the Crystal Ball
An expert is someone who can accurately predict how a certain technology will progress in the next 12 to 18 months. An authority can extend the prediction relatively accurately to five years or so. A visionary looks ahead 10 years or more and is either lucky or wrong. In the long run, innovation has a bad habit of upsetting the technology continuum. Photonics has had its share of experts,...
The Photon Connection
Wearable, miniature computers that moonlight as movie viewers with nearly unlimited selections. Enough bandwidth to simultaneously connect every living person through just one optical fiber. These...
Photonics Gets Personal
The last time the millennial clock rolled over, the only individuals that required some stamp of personal identification sat on thrones. Signet rings and hot wax made a simple task of identifying the...
Photovoltaics Grows Up
Long dismissed by some pundits as expensive and impractical, photovoltaic cells, also known as solar cells, are a popular way to generate electricity in remote areas. John Benner, a researcher at the...
Sensing the Century
The Deep Space 2 microprobe, which recently slammed into Mars, only hints at what’s possible in the next century as smart sensors merge with biological and chemical systems, according to...
Tech Pulse
New Laser Could Be Alternative to Laser Diode
MILAN, Italy -- Professor Cesare Svelto of the Polytechnic Institute of Milan has developed a high-power narrow-linewidth source that claims to outperform any device in its class. Svelto said the key to the new type of erbium-glass laser is highly optimized stabilization circuitry on the pump laser. Slow development This was designed to damp resonance oscillations, which are particularly critical...
Bell Labs Breaks the 1-km Barrier
Researchers at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., have demonstrated serial transmission at 10 Gb/s over a 1.6-km multimode fiber. In May, the team displayed 10-Gb/s serial transmission over 300 m of...
Duke University’s Free-Electron Laser Breaks 200-nm Wavelength Barrier
The Russian-built OK-4 free-electron laser at Duke University in Durham, N.C., emitted 5 mW of continuous-wave, 193.7-nm vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light, the province of ArF excimer lasers. Vladimir...
Diode Laser Emits in the Mid-IR at Room Temperature
The Naval Research Laboratory in Washington has produced a laser diode that displays pulsed operation in the mid-infrared at room temperature. Team members Jerry Meyer of the lab’s Optical...
Physicists Use Lasers to Achieve Fermi Degeneracy
It was almost five years ago that Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman achieved Bose-Einstein condensation at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, cooling bosons to almost absolute zero....
This Is Your Garden-Variety Laser
MORIOKA, Japan -- Next time you go shopping for a lasing medium, forget about rubies or sapphires or gases. Just go to the local supermarket and pick up some carrots, potatoes or peppers. Researchers...
Proton Radiography Images Implosion
A demonstration at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Neutron Science Center in Los Alamos, N.M., has left researchers confident of the application of proton radiography in the hydrodynamic...
Lidar Satellite Will Analyze Forests
GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- In September 2000, the Vegetation Canopy Lidar satellite is scheduled for liftoff on an Athena I rocket -- the first scheduled orbital launch from the Kodiak Launch Complex in...
Researchers Develop Electro-Optic Lightning Detector
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Lightning strikes during space launch preparation can be very dangerous. Information provided by detectors can predict a lightning hazard, but time is of the essence. An array of...
Luminescence Aids Detection of Toxic Leaks
ARGONNE, Ill. -- As a legacy to the uranium enrichment process that has provided nuclear reactor fuel since the 1940s, the US Department of Energy stores more than 700,000 metric tons of depleted...
Military Laser Gets Ready for Industry
URBANA, Ill. -- The chemical oxygen-iodine laser technology that is the basis of the US Air Force’s Airborne Laser aircraft could soon be harnessed for such commercial applications as...
Lasers Quiet Mirrors
Researchers at the École Normale Supérieure and Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris reported cooling a mirror with laser light. Brownian motion from internal thermal noise...
Nobel Prize Recognizes Ultrafast Revolution
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in chemistry to Ahmed H. Zewail, a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of...
New Laser Could Be Alternative to Laser Diode
LAPPEENRANTA, Finland -- The use of lasers for materials processing is on the rise in Nordic countries, demonstrated not only by an increasing number of installed high-power lasers, but also by a...
Nortel Has 6.4-Tb/s Optical Platform
Nortel Networks Corp. of Paignton, UK, presented a scalable 40- to 80-Gb/s optical Internet platform during Telecom ’99 in Geneva. The system, which is designed to connect 2500 backbone routers...
Proteins Key to Plants’ Response to Light and Shade
An international research team announced that it has identified the protein dynamics that control plants’ response to light and shade. The study, which appeared in the Oct. 7 issue of Nature,...
Fiber Amplifier Pumps Reach 200-mW Level
Scientists announced in the Sept. 20 issue of Applied Optics that they have fabricated 200-mW, 980-nm pump laser modules for erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. The diode lasers are coupled to single-mode...
Laser System Inspects Space Plane
Lockheed Martin’s Tactical Aircraft Systems in Fort Worth, Texas, has applied its LaserUT ultrasonic inspection system to the development of the X-33 reusable launch vehicle. The system, which...
New Spectroscopy Technique Detects Trace Samples
GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- A new approach to surface spectroscopy has proved 100 times more sensitive than current methods and may eventually be capable of identifying a strand of a deadly virus or a...
Team Produces Tunable Solid-State Blue Laser
In a collaboration between the City University of Hong Kong and Shandong University, both in China, scientists have produced tunable, continuous-wave blue light with a solid-state laser. The results...
Two-in-One Laser
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Researchers at Bell Laboratories described in the Oct. 22 issue of Science a semiconductor quantum cascade laser that emits light at 6.33 or 6.5 µm with opposite bias...
light speed
Arkansas Produces Engineers for Business
Two new master’s degree programs at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville offer an interdisciplinary program designed to better prepare students for entry into high-tech industry. The microelectronics-photonics and applied physics degree programs, which have received a National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training grant, combine technology management,...
AlliedSignal, Honeywell Must Sell Avionics Businesses Before Merger
AlliedSignal Inc. of Morristown, N.J., and Honeywell Inc. of Minneapolis must divest themselves of elements of their avionics businesses to win approval for their $16 billion merger, according to...
Corning, Fibercore Settle Patent Dispute
Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y., announced that it has settled the patent infringement suit it had filed against Fibercore Ltd. of Southampton, UK. The companies signed a consent judgment in which...
EG&G Inc. Changes Name
EG&G Inc. based in Wellesley, Mass., announced that it changed its name to PerkinElmer Inc., effective Oct. 26. The change reflects a focus on commercial markets and a move to develop under a...
Technology Exchange Expands Global Market
WASHINGTON -- Researchers and commercial ventures in both the US and Japan have directly benefited from three years of technology exchange through the Joint US-Japan Optoelectronic Project (JOP),...
Executives Have New Reason to Fear Flying
WESTPORT, Conn. -- The senior manager who drives a company car to a doctor’s appointment for a free medical examination while checking by company-leased mobile phone on dinner reservations at...
Matrox to Discontinue Frame Grabber Line
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Philips Semiconductors, which announced plans this year to phase out a key component used by a number of major frame grabber manufacturers, has been only partly successful in...
Akio Morita, Sony Founder, Dies
Akio Morita, the founder and honorary chairman of Sony Corp. in Tokyo, died of pneumonia Oct. 3. Morita founded the company with Masaru Ibuka as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo KK (Tokyo Telecommunications...
Newport Electronics Names Newport Corp. in Trademark Suit
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Newport Electronics Inc.’s inch-thick complaint of trademark infringement in federal district court against Newport Corp. is another entry in the larger history of...
Patent Office Accepts E-Applications
The US Patent & Trademark Office will expand its electronic filing system to include most patent requests. The office has allowed trademark customers to file applications over the Internet for a...
’Optics City’ Is Under Development in Quebec
The Société Innovatech Québec et Chaudière-Appalaches in Canada announced a government-sponsored effort to strengthen and expand the optics cluster in Quebec. Under the...
Photonics Companies Form Rochester Cluster
A consortium of photonics companies in Rochester, N.Y., has formed Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster Inc. to promote the local business community and encourage cooperation among industry,...
SPIE Appoints Executive Director
SPIE’s board of directors named Eugene G. Arthurs as its executive director effective Nov. 1. He succeeds James E. Pearson, who resigned in February to become the executive director of the...
Technology Transfer Grants Opening
The US Department of Defense will open application to its Small Business Technology Transfer program Jan. 4. The grant program will award $30 million in 2000 to fund cooperative research and...
European Firms Form Joint Venture
Thermo Instrument Systems Inc. of Waltham, Mass., announced that its Spectra Precision AB subsidiary in Danderyd, Sweden, has formed a joint venture company with Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH of Germany. The...
Accent on Applications
DRS Names President of Electro-Optical Group
DRS Technologies Inc. has named Fred L. Marion president of its Palm Bay, Fla.-based Electro-Optical Systems Group (EOSG). Marion is a 35-year veteran of the aerospace and defense industries. Marion's most recent post was vice president of special projects, reporting to the president of the Lockheed Martin Electronics Sector. Before that he served as vice president of fire control systems for...
Small Nd:YAG Laser Enables in Situ Studies of Airborne Particulates
Many man-made and natural activities emit airborne particulates, filling our atmosphere with pollution that can damage human respiratory systems, reduce visibility and even alter the local climate...
Spectrometer Makes Filmmakers See Red
Cinematographers hate fluorescent lights. Although these light sources look more or less normal to the human eye, they show up as green on film. Worse, they impart a weird and unhealthy greenish cast...
Infrared Grain Analyzer Goes with the Flow
Knowing the exact quality of grain can increase profits for farmers. Corn containing a high oil content and wheat with a high level of protein can demand higher prices. Current methods of measuring...
Image Analysis System Packs Multifunctionality
NASA’s Receipt Inspection Quality Assurance Lab reduces the percentage of non-conforming items being shipped to its Langley Research Center. The quality assurance facility, operated by...
Presstime Bulletin
JDS Uniphase Plans Merger with Longtime Supplier OCLI
JDS Uniphase Corp. of San Jose, Calif., and Optical Coating Laboratory Inc. (OCLI) of Santa Rosa, Calif., have signed a merger agreement under which OCLI will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of JDS Uniphase. The companies expect the $2.8 billion deal to be finalized in early 2000, pending government review. During a Nov. 4 conference call, Charles J. Abbe, CEO of OCLI, called the...
NTT Plans to Eliminate 20,000 Jobs
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT) of Tokyo announced a restructuring plan that would cut about 20,000 jobs by March 31, 2003. The company, which reported a work force of 224,000 in March...
Longtime Optics Maker Dies
John L. Plummer, 84, co-founder of Plummer Precision Optics Co. of Pennsburg, Pa., died Oct. 31. He was best known for helping to develop precision optics for the US Army during World War II. In...
Planet Might Be Orbiting Binary Pair
Researchers with the Microlensing Planet Search project have found evidence of the first known circumbinary planet, an object of about three times the size of Jupiter orbiting a pair of stars nearly...
Roper Announces Acquisitions
Roper Industries Inc. of Bogart, Ga., has approved the purchase of Eastman Kodak Co.’s Motion Analysis Systems Div. in San Diego. The company expects the $51 million acquisition to be...
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SINGLE-EMITTER DIODE LASER
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TWO-AXIS ADJUSTABLE OPTICAL WEDGE
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