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April 2007

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Optical Device to Reveal Adult Brain Plasticity

It may be easy to change your mind, but your brain? Using a new optical imaging device that quickly maps the visual cortex, researchers hope to reveal how "plastic" or adjustable, adult brains really are. Valery Kalatsky, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston, is collaborating with Hubert Dinse, a cognitive...

Antarctic Probe Aims for Space

A robotic probe designed to draw an underwater three-dimensional map showing the biological and geochemical composition of an ice-bound lake in Antarctica could be the ideal tool to search for life...

Ionatron Forms Laser Group Directed-energy weapons maker Ionatron Inc. today announced it is forming a laser group to develop advanced solid-state lasers for military, aerospace and security applications. The Ionatron...

AT&T CEO to Retire Edward E. Whitacre Jr. announced at the company's annual stockholders meeting, held today in San Antonio, that he will retire as chairman of the board and CEO of AT&T effective June 3. The...

Corning to Invest $300M in R&D Corning Inc. announced today a $300 million facility improvement plan for its Sullivan Park Research and Development campus near Corning, N.Y., that it said will help meet its goals for "growth...

Bright Future Predicted for Nanowire Photodetectors

The geometry of semiconducting nanowires makes them uniquely suited for light detection, according to a new study that highlights the possibility of nanowire light detectors with single-photon...

Siemans CEO Will Resign Siemens AG President and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld will resign when his contract expires in October, the company announced today. Kleinfeld "informed the supervisory board at its meeting today that he is...

Corning to Reopen NC Fiber Plant; Reports Q1 Profits Corning's first-quarter profit rose 27 percent, exceeding expectations despite decreased display sales, the company announced today. It also said it plans to reopen a portion of its Concord, N.C.,...

Canadian, UK Scientists Uncover 'Kryptonite'

Superman's Achille's heel is no longer the stuff of fiction. A new mineral matching the unique chemistry of kryptonite, a fictional radioactive green crystal that causes the superhero to weaken, has...

Project Aims to Create New Materials, Nanodevices

A Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI) grant of as much as $7.5 million has been awarded to a four-university project that aims to use ionic liquids to develop electromechanical devices and...

Birds 'Captured' Going Wild in Craig's Backyard

Craig Newmark, founder of the popular craigslist community Web sites, is hosting a robotic video camera project from the back deck of his home, which overlooks Sutro Forest in San Francisco. The new...

Cymer Announces $300M Stock Repurchase Cymer Inc., a supplier of excimer laser light sources used in semiconductor manufacturing, announced today that its board has authorized the company to repurchase up to $300,000,000 of its common...

Coherent Acquires Nuvonyx Coherent Inc. announced today it has acquired Nuvonyx Inc., a St. Louis, Mo.-based provider of high-power (more than 1 kw) laser diode components, arrays and industrial laser systems for materials...

Near-Field IR Experiment Launched The Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE), built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, was launched into low earth orbit today from the NASA facility at Wallops Island, Va. The...

DoE Awards New Spintronics Center $1.9M

The University of Delaware has been awarded $1.9 million from the US Department of Energy (DoE) to establish the Center for Spintronics and Biodetection, which aims to create a highly sensitive...

EDT Helps Abbreviate Protein Studies PhosphoMotif Finder, a publicly available database on the Web (www.hprd.org/PhosphoMotif_finder) that could speed the work of researchers around the world, is the result of a new technique that reads...

Research on Shortest Light Pulse and More at CLEO/QELS The shortest light pulse ever created, a new type of laser that provides 3-D retinal imaging with an emerging method called optical coherence tomography (OCT), and a magnifying "superlens" are just...

Solar Cell Efficiency Rises

Plastic solar cell efficiency has been pushed to more than 6 percent via “nanofilaments” within light-absorbing plastic, similar to the veins in tree leaves, enabling the use of thicker absorbing...

Asylum Research Buys Majority Stake in Atomic Force F&E Asylum Research, a maker of atomic force and scanning probe microscopes, announced it has purchased a majority interest in Germany-based Atomic Force F&E GmbH, its distributor in Europe. Specific...

Metagenomics Will 'Transform' Microbiology The emerging field of metagenomics, where the DNA of entire communities of microbes is studied simultaneously, presents the greatest opportunity -- perhaps since the invention of the microscope -- to...

Mass-Marketed OLEDs Could Power Lighting Revolution

A thin film of plastic that conducts electricity and produces solar power could be the basis for a revolution in the way we light our homes and design clothes. An international research project has...

Kodak Selling Unit to Rohm and Haas Eastman Kodak Co. is selling a business unit that manufactures films for flat-panel displays to Rohm and Haas Co., a maker of electronic materials and chemicals, the companies announced yesterday....

MiniBooNE Data Clarifies Neutrino Behavior

The initial data from the 10-year-long “MiniBooNE” experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermilab significantly clarifies the overall picture of how the fundamental particles,...

Combined Imaging Techniques Promise Insights into MS

By combining three types of microscopic imaging techniques that are ordinarily used individually, a way has been developed to analyze living tissue and learn more about the molecular mechanisms of...

324-GHz Waves Reported

A 324-gigahertz frequency has been generated using a voltage-controlled oscillator in a 90-nanometer CMOS integrated circuit, a technology used in chips such as microprocessors. The signal generator,...

Research Portal to Launch A free search portal that will enable users to explore research cited in scholarly work and patents will be launched by 12 science, engineering and technology societies in June, OSA announced...

Emcore Buys Opticomm Emcore Corp., a provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite, and solar power markets, today announced that it has acquired...

IPG Acquires HM Laser Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics Corp. announced today it has acquired its distributor in China, HM Laser, and is opening a new office in Beijing. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. HM Laser, a...

Progress Made Toward Single-Qdot Laser

A micrometer-sized solid-state laser has been built that, while not powered by a single quantum dot, effectively demonstrates that just one dot can play a dominant role in the device's performance....

Mass Weddings Conducted

For physics and technology applications as diverse as quantum information theory and telecommunications, it’s handy to have access to pairs of photons created simultaneously, with a chosen energy....

DSS: Quantum Tech Boom Approaches Describing the current era as one of technological opportunity equal to many in American history, panelists at the 2007 SPIE Defense & Security Symposium (DSS), being held this week in Orlando,...

Laser Technique Detects Anthrax in Real Time A laser technique has been developed that can instantly identify deadly anthrax spores. "Our report shows how to use lasers to detect anthrax in real time as opposed to the cumbersome and wieldy...

Axsys Buys Cineflex for $27M Optical and motion control systems maker Axsys Technologies Inc. announced yesterday that it has acquired privately held gyrostabilized camera maker Cineflex LLC for $27 million in cash. Cineflex...

Electrospinning Creates Tiniest Light-Emitting Devices

The smallest organic light-emitting devices to date have been created, so tiny that they are shorter than the wavelength of light they emit. Potential applications for these "nanolamps," which are...

Unique Blend of Research and Industry at Optifab 2007 Optifab is the largest optical manufacturing product and supplier exhibition held in the US. With a unique technical focus on classical and advanced optical manufacturing technologies, Optifab 2007...

Metamaterials a Hot Topic at Optics Congress in Prague Engineered composites that exhibit exceptional properties not readily observed in nature -- commonly known as metamaterials -- and their potential use in invisibility cloaks, new imaging methods and...

URochester Awarded $1.8M for Nanotech Initiative The University of Rochester will receive $1.8 million in federal funding to begin its Nanosystems Initiative, a nanotechnology research center that will develop fuel cells and optical biosensors,...

Light-Sensitive Molecule Can 'Heal' Itself in the Dark

Sometimes all an overworked molecule needs is a good night's rest. According to a study by physicist Mark Kuzyk and colleagues at Washington State University, a molecule that loses its ability to...

‘Smart’ Sunglass Lenses Change Color on Demand

‘Smart’ sunglasses will allow wearers to instantly change the color of their lenses to any hue of the rainbow almost instantly by tuning a tiny electronic knob in the frame. "Through...

Plastic With Adjustable Conductivity Developed

A plastic has been modified so its ability to carry an electrical current can be altered during manufacturing to meet the needs of future electronic devices, such as military camouflage that changes...

Nanogenerator Converts Tiny Movements to Electric Current

A prototype nanometer-scale generator -- an array of tiny filaments that converts the smallest motions into electrical current -- could free nanomachines from the bulk of batteries by harvesting...

'Large' Object Laser-Cooled Near Absolute Zero

A coin-sized object has been cooled to within one degree of absolute zero through a laser-cooling technique that could one day allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in "large" objects. The...

MRI-Safe Motor Propels Robot Biopsies

A motor without metal or electricity can safely power remote-controlled robotic medical devices used for cancer biopsies and therapies guided by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The motor that...

Xponent Photonics Funding Round Nets $23M Xponent Photonics, a maker of surface-mount photonic (SMP) components, recently announced it raised $23 million in funding and that Barbara Grant, a partner with Roseville-based American River...

Cable Installed for Deep-Sea Observatory

Oceanographers have completed an important step in constructing the first deep-sea observatory off the continental US. Workers in the multi-institution effort laid 32 miles (52 kilometers) of cable...

PerkinElmer Acquires Improvision PerkinElmer Inc., a Waltham, Mass., developer of technology for the health-science and photonics industries, announced this week it has acquired Improvision Ltd., of Coventry, England, in a cash...

Thermo Fisher Sells Genevac Analytical instrument and lab equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced yesterday that it has sold its Genevac business, a manufacturer of vacuum concentrators, to private equity firm...

Fermilab 'Dumbfounded' by Fiasco That Broke Magnet

In what is being described as a "pratfall on the world stage," the quadrupole magnet that Fermilab built for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator failed high-pressure testing...

Zeiss Publishes Rediscovered Alzheimer Slides

The original research material upon which the discovery of Alzheimer's disease was based is being made available online by optics specialist Carl Zeiss Ltd., providing pathologists with their first...

Joan of Arc Relics Exposed as Fakes by Spectrometry Using techniques including mass, infrared and atomic-emission spectrometry, experts have proven that remains thought to be of St. Joan of Arc are actually those from an Egyptian mummy. The relics...

EUV Tool Produces Images

Less than six months after taking delivery of the first full-field, extreme-ultraviolet alpha demo tool (EUV ADT), the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany...

’Optical Cloaking’ Design Created for Invisibility

Nanotechnology has been used to take a first step toward creating an "optical cloaking" device that could render objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside this "cloak." Purdue...

Nanotubes Cool Microchips

Carbon nanotubes have proven to dissipate microchip heat as effectively as copper and could be integrated into ever-smaller cell phones, digital audio players and personal digital assistants to help...

Applied Materials Acquires Brooks Software for $125M Applied Materials Inc. announced Friday it has acquired Brooks Software, a division of Brooks Automation Inc. and a provider of factory management and control software to the semiconductor and flat...

Membranes Adopt Guest-Molecules' Properties A block copolymer has been created which forms nanostructured film that can adopt the properties of its "guest" molecules. Virginia Tech researchers announced last year that they had created a...

Rofin-Sinar Buys Corelase Oy Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc., a maker of industrial lasers, announced today it has acquired 100 percent of the common stock of Corelase Oy, based in Tampere, Finland, in a cash transaction. Further...

Sensor Developer Awarded Lemelson-MIT Prize

Timothy M. Swager has a nose for explosives. The chemistry professor and department head at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claims he can "almost always take a whiff of a chemical and...

ACQUISITIONS

Asylum Research Buys Majority Stake in Atomic Force F&E Asylum Research, a maker of atomic force and scanning probe microscopes, announced it has purchased a majority interest in Germany-based Atomic Force F&E GmbH, its distributor in Europe. Specific terms were not disclosed. Atomic Force F&E distributes metrology tools and scanning probe microscope (SPM) cantilevers for atomic force microscopy (AFM) applications from its two locations in...

Kodak Selling Unit to Rohm and Haas Eastman Kodak Co. is selling a business unit that manufactures films for flat-panel displays to Rohm and Haas Co., a maker of electronic materials and chemicals, the companies announced yesterday....

Axsys Buys Cineflex for $27M Optical and motion control systems maker Axsys Technologies Inc. announced yesterday that it has acquired privately held gyrostabilized camera maker Cineflex LLC for $27 million in cash. Cineflex...

PRODUCTS

Fermion I Fiber-Coupled Lasers

Fiber-coupled lasers from 375 nm to 1600 nm are available with output powers from 10 mW to 60 mW from single-mode fiber. Power output is typically <1 percent variation with linewidths <0.1 for most lasers. For narrower linewidths, distributed feedback (DFB) lasers with ~2 MHz linewidth are available. The Fermion I series is a simple to use turnkey system with power supply and all the...

Micro Laser Systems Inc.

Speckle Reducer

Designed to reduce the coherence of lasers, the SK-11 Speckle Reducer is excellent for microscopic illumination. It consists of a fiber bundle with different lengths of fiber. There is no chromatic...

Micro Laser Systems Inc.

Firefly-IR Portable Mid-IR Laser

Firefly-IR is an innovative mid-infrared (mid-IR) laser source that provides an unmatched blend of broad wavelength coverage (~2.5-4.5 µm), high average power (>400 mW at 350 kHz), peak powers...

10-Gb DPSK/OOK Transmitter

Discovery Semiconductors introduces an optical 10 Gb/s transmitter for the generation of on/off keyed (OOK) and differential phase-shift keyed (DPSK) signals. The fully standalone device includes a...

Discovery Semiconductors Inc.

LBO, BBO Crystals

LBO (lithium triborate) crystals grown at Cristal Laser are now available in larger sizes and with a very low bulk absorption, making makes them particularly suitable for high-power or high-energy...

Cristal Laser SA

LDM-4415 CS Bar Package

BOZEMAN, Mont., April 26, 2007 -- Laser diode instrumentation and test systems maker ILX Lightwave Corp. has developed the LDM-4415 CS bar package mounting fixture for conductively cooled laser diode bars. Heat sink technology...

Newport - ILX Lightwave, Photonics

PulseLife Horizontal Arrays

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 26, 2007 -- PulseLife horizontal arrays from Coherent Inc. are a new series of diode laser packages that deliver high-power output while offering simplified water-cooling requirements. Utilizing Coherent's...

Optical Design Software

Zemax Development Corp. publishes an optical design program for both sequential and nonsequential ray tracing. The software can be used to conceptualize, design, optimize, analyze, tolerance and...

Zemax, Optical Product Design Software

First Contact Polymer Cleaner Spray Formula

PLATTEVILLE, Wisc., April 24, 2007 -- Photonic Cleaning Technologies' spray-formula First Contact polymer cleaner can be used on any size or shape optic, mirror or crystal without touching delicate precision surfaces. Featuring the...

Photonic Cleaning Technologies LLC, PCT Aerospace

High-Accuracy Laser Wavelength Meter Bristol Instruments said its 621-series laser wavelength meters from offer accurate, real-time wavelength information for continuous-wave (CW) lasers. Two versions are available: The model 621A is...

Bristol Instruments Inc.

OPI7000 Series Isolators

CARROLLTON, Texas, April 23, 2007 -- Providing design engineers with an extended range of isolators for applications that require 6 kVDC electrical isolation, sensor maker Optek Technology has expanded its line of optically coupled...

Optek Technology, Industrial Sensing & Control

LightTools is a complete optical design and analysis software product featuring virtual prototyping, simulation, optimization and photorealistic renderings (including source-lit renderings) of...

Synopsys Inc., Optical Solutions Group

SX51 TOSA/ROSA for HD Video

PLEASANTON, Calif., April 20, 2007 -- Omron Electronic Components LLC announced today the introduction of the P1TX4C-SX51 transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) and the P1RX4C-SX51 receiver optical subassembly (ROSA) to serve the...

Omron Automation

OPTIScope-SA

Eldim's new OPTIscope SA line integrates full response time measurement tools, flicker measurements and an accurate luminance meter. The new design improves the OPTIScope SA performance and...

Diamond C Series CO2 Lasers

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 17, 2007 -- Diamond C, a new series of low-power, continuous-wave (CW) carbon-dioxide (CO2) lasers from Coherent Inc., now offers high reliability operation for OEM applications. The Diamond C series consists of...

Ultraprecision Diamond Tools

Chardon Tool offers diamond-tipped end mills, used in making optical components, in a variety of shapes, including concave and convex radii with controlled waviness, and with straight or tapered...

Ti: Sapphire for Laser Applications

Crystal Systems (CSI) said it is offering improved transmitted wavefront and coating performance in its Ti:sapphire laser crystals. CSI offers plano/plano polished rods with coatings or brewster-cut...

GT Advanced Technologies, Advanced Materials Group

Sapphire Windows

Crystal Systems' high-purity sapphire windows are now available online in various sizes and polish, including laser-quality white light generators and substrates. Vacuum ultraviolet (VUV)-grade...

GT Advanced Technologies, Advanced Materials Group

FPL Femtosecond Fiber Laser Calmar Optcom is an industrial leader in ultrashort pulse lasers, e.g. femtosecond fiber laser FPL. Two form factors are available for FPL: benchtop and OEM module. FPL has a broad range of...

Custom LCD Backlight Assemblies

Lighting technology developg JKL Components Corp. has enhanced its design and manufacturing capabilities for specialty LCD backlight assemblies, including NVIS (night-vision imaging...

JKL Components Corp.

40GHz Picosecond Fiber Laser

Calmar Optcom is an industrial leader of ultrafast fiber lasers. One of its flagship products is the PSL-40, a 40-GHz direct fiber laser. This laser provides researchers and manufacturers with the...

ThermoVision SC8000 MWIR Camera

BOSTON, April 10, 2007 -- Infrared camera maker Flir Systems has released its latest product in infrared technology for the scientific community, the ThermoVision SC8000 MWIR (medium-wavelength infrared) camera. Generating...

Teledyne FLIR Systems Inc.

RotoTab Fiber Laser Marking System

BRANFORD, Conn., April 10, 2007 -- Lasit USA introduces its newest generation RotoTab, the first compact, desktop rotary dial table fiber laser marking system. The fully enclosed Class 1 system comes complete with a fiber laser, galvo...

Laser Americas LLC

LEM Interferometer

Horiba Jobin Yvon announces the release of its new LEM interferometer for in-situ etch rate monitoring and end-point detection. The LEM replaces the Sofie DigiLem. With its new compact design and...

HORIBA Scientific

MM-16 Spectroscopic Ellipsometer

Horiba Jobin Yvon introduces the new MM-16, a highly accurate and affordable spectroscopic ellipsometer. Along with measurements of thin-film thickness and optical constants, the MM-16 delivers...

HORIBA Scientific

Extreme Elliptical Diffusers

As LEDs become brighter and more energy efficient, they are being used in more general lighting applications. Many of these applications require a homogenized light without glare or hot spots....

LED BLUs for LCDs

Fusion Optix's expertise in optical films, LED lighting, and system assembly enables design and prototype of high-performance LED BLUs for LCDs. Our product encompasses LED displays of all sizes...

Fusion Optix Inc.

The DF series of optical diffusion films for LCD displays from Fusion Optix offers a wide variety of symmetrical and asymmetrical diffusion profiles with complete control over light output. These...

Fusion Optix Inc.

PALM MicroBeam Laser

BERNRIED, Germany, April 9, 2007 -- PALM (Positioning and Ablation with Laser Microbeams) Microlaser Technologies GmbH, a subsidiary of Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH, has unveiled the PALM MicroBeam laser microdissection system, the...

Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC

P-871 Compact Piezo Bender Actuator

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP offers the P-871 closed-loop piezo bender actuator series. These unique long-travel piezo transducers are based on PI’s ceramic-encapsulated Picma series multilayer...

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics

The 'Rock' Fiber Laser

Single-frequency fiber lasers don’t have to be sensitive to vibration! The "Rock" is a stable single-frequency fiber laser with ultralow phase noise that is insensitive to vibration, without the need...

NP Photonics Inc.

Tunable Q-Switched UV Laser

NT340C series tunable optical parametric oscillator (OPO) laser systems from Ekspla offer hands-free, no-gap ultraviolet tuning from 210 to 2300 nm. Offering excellent beam shape (1.5:1...

NL200 Series DPSS Q-Switched UV Lasers

High energy DPSS (diode-pumped solid-state) Q-switched nanosecond ultraviolet (UV) lasers are now available from Ekspla. Offering more than 0.6 mJ at kilohertz repetition rates, NL202 UV lasers...

Chameleon Ultra II Laser

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 4, 2007 -- The new Chameleon Ultra II laser from Coherent Inc. delivers a major increase in both tuning range and output power, compared to previous one-box ultrafast lasers, the company said. Specifically,...

PhotoFluor Light Source

ROCKINGHAM, Vt., April 3, 2007 -- Optical filter maker Chroma Technology has introduced the PhotoFluor, a next-generation high output light source for fluorescence microscopy that combines a powerful metal halide lamp with a...

Chroma Technology Corp.

FR-E+ SuperBright X-Ray Source

THE WOODLANDS, Texas, April 3, 2007 -- Rigaku Americas Corp., a provider of home laboratory x-ray sources for macromolecular crystallography, announced the introduction of the Rigaku FR-E+ SuperBright, an ultrabright microfocus rotating...

Rigaku Americas Corp.

Space-Qualified Fiber Collimators

LightPath Technologies is pleased to announce the capability to manufacture high performance Fusion collimators for space and other demanding environments. These space-qualified collimators are...

LightPath Technologies Inc.

IR Lens Assembly for Thermal Imaging

LightPath Technologies is pleased to introduce an f/1.3, 14.9-mm focal length infrared (IR) lens assembly designed for uncooled IR sensors. These lenses are designed as the primary optics for...

LightPath Technologies Inc.

LAS-CAD GmbH presents new version 3.3.5 of the program LASCAD (LASer Cavity Analysis and Design), which provides a unique combination of simulation tools. Thermal and structural finite element...

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