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Photonics.com
 September 2008


RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY
Former DARPA Manager to Lead R&D at QinetiQ Technology solutions developer QinetiQ North America of McLean, Va., announced that its Technology Solutions Group (TSG) in Waltham, Mass. has appointed Dr. Gregory Duckworth as its first director of advanced research and development. Duckworth joined TSG's Foster-Miller Inc. subsidiary in February 2007 after four years as program manager at DARPA in the Special Projects and Strategic...
NEWS & FEATURES
'Magnificent 7' Unveiled Aspera, a network of European government agencies responsible for coordinating and funding national research efforts in astroparticle physics, have revealed their ‘To Do’ list to the world. Gamma Ray seen here in what Aspera calles the Magic Experiment. Photo courtesy of Aspera/R. Wagner/MPI for Physics, Munich, Germany. Their strategy for the future of astropartilce physics includes...
Gold Nanoparticles Go Green Until recently, creating gold nanoparticles has produced synthetic chemicals that have a negative impact on the environment. However, according to scientists at the University of Missouri – Columbia,...
The $10M Light Bulb The Department of Energy (DoE) wants to give you $10 million. That is, of course, if you can come up with a new viable solid-state LED replacement for the standard 60 watt incandescent bulb. A second...
Mass Spectrometry Imaging Georgia Institute of Technology researchers from the Colleges of Sciences and Engineering have joined forces to create the Center for Bio-Imaging Mass Spectrometry (BIMS), which aims to tackle...
A Molecule’s Solo Sparkle While a group of fluorescent molecules may appear to work synchronously, a closer look reveals maverick molecules flash and work at varying rates, according to scientists at the Department of...
Biosensors Measure Molecules A new class of disposable, photonic crystal biosensors has been developed that can detect protein-DNA interactions. By examining the light reflected from the crystal, researchers can tell when...
Optics to Spy Alien Worlds? Roughly 13 years ago astronomers found and confirmed the existence of the first planet outside the solar system. Since then, scientists have confirmed nearly 300, most of which are gas giants like...
Time-eating Beast When Stephen Hawking is selected for an unveiling, you know something big is happening. And indeed, on Sept. 19, the famed cosmologist was at Cambridge University to introduce a strange and...
Physicists Get Genius Grants An optical physicist who demonstrated that power can be transmitted wirelessly, a physicist who explores the mysterious behavior of quantum systems, and an astrophysicist working to improve the...
LHC: No Smashing Until Spring Investigation into the cause of a large helium leak at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and repairs to the magnets that quenched during the leak mean the atom smasher won’t restart until spring...
Oxford Sells Unit to Riber High technology tools and systems company Oxford Instruments plc and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) machine maker Riber SA announced Monday that Riber has bought the MBE business currently owned by...
LHC Repairs to Take Months A faulty electrical connection between two magnets was most likely the cause of a magnet quench Friday that resulted in a large helium leak at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s...
Predicting the Kondo Effect Scientists at the IBM Almaden Research Center have discovered a major advancement in fundamental physics. For the first time ever, researchers are able to predict when the Kondo effect will occur....
Sound Focuses Liquid Lens A tiny new lens made of two water droplets can change focus when high frequency sounds cause the droplets to vibrate back and forth. Because it captures 250 pictures per second and requires...
The BOSS’ Dark Energy Located on Apache Point, a mountaintop in New Mexico, a 2.5-meter telescope is mapping the universe. In fact, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has a wider field of view than any other large...
Quench Latest LHC Setback A magnet quench Friday that resulted in a large helium leak is the latest setback for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator, which was launched with great fanfare...
Nano Safety Center Formed A new government-funded Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEINT) is being formed at Duke University to explore the potential ecological hazards of nanoparticles. The National...
Ultracold Polar Gas In what could potentially provide breakthrough applications in quantum computing, precision measurement and designer chemistry, scientists at JILA have produced the first high-density gas of...
Heating Up Microscopy Bioengineers at Duke University are using nanospheres of gold to create a photothermal optical coherence tomography (OCT) to witness the interaction of living molecules. OCT, which has been called...
Coating Copies Biosurfaces A thin coating of glass has been used to rapidly and inexpensively copy the micro- and nanostructure of biological surfaces to exploit properties such as light interaction, thermal ability and...
Jefferson Lab Upgrade OK'd Less than a week after the largest particle accelerator in the world launched its first beams near Geneva, Switzerland, the US Department of Energy has approved construction of a $310 million project...
Brandeis Wins $7.8M Grant The National Science Foundation has awarded Brandeis University a $7.8 million grant to finance a new research center that will combine materials science and biology. Brandeis is now the smallest...
Wafer-thin Germanium By reducing the waste and breakage of the brittle germanium-based semiconductor, University of Utah engineers say they can lower the cost of solar power. According to the group the new method,...
Green Photonics Forum The market for green photonic components could exceed $100 billion by 2015, according to Michael Lebby, CEO of the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA).  The Washington-based...
Tumor-targeting Nanodevices Dubbed nano-sized cargo ships, scientists from UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT are boasting a nanodevice that sails through the bloodstream and attacks cancerous tumors, while avoiding rapid...
e2v Acquires QP Semi QP Semiconductor, a privately held fabless semiconductor company that provides integrated circuits for the military, aerospace and high reliability industries, has agreed to be acquired by e2v, an...
Dial-in Diagnosis It may soon be possible to draw a blood sample and have the readout sent wirelessly, via cell phone, to a hospital for further analysis. In an effort to improve health globally, researchers from the...
NASA Patents Going, Going... Sensing, global positioning and computer systems technologies developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will be sold to the highest bidder on Oct. 30 in Chicago, marking the first time a federal...
TEAM Yields Stunning Images The world's most powerful transmission electron microscope has been used to produce stunning images of individual carbon atoms in graphene, the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon that is...
Trumpf Acquiring SPI Lasers Trumpf GmbH + Co. KG of Germany, a technology group that makes laser-based products and solutions for materials processing applications, announced it will acquire UK-based fiber laser maker SPI...
Collider Beams Up at CERN After 20-plus years of planning, billions of dollars, lawsuits, and even death threats, the first beam of protons in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator was successfully steered...
Photonics in South Africa The photonics industry is alive and well in South Africa. So much so, that a photonics initiative, supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), has been established. Dubbed the...
Graphene Seen Superclose
Threats Won't Stop Collider Despite death threats, lawsuits, and even physicist Stephen Hawking betting against it, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, will be turned on Wednesday. The LHC...
Lasers Analyze Coal Plants With worldwide demand for coal surging in the wake of ballooning gasoline prices, it’s no wonder more attention hasn’t been given to the sharp rise in coal cost – nearly doubling in less than a year....
Halma Buys Fiberguide Sensor, safety and technology group Halma announced Tuesday it has acquired Fiberguide Industries Inc. for an initial payment of $14.5 million in cash. Fiberguide, located in Stirling, N.J.,...
Rofin Buys Stake in Laser Biz Industrial laser maker Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. announced it will acquire an 80 percent stake in Nanjing Eastern Laser Co. Ltd. of China in two separate cash transactions. Rofin-Sinar, which...
'Pyrex'-like Nanoparticles Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have reported a new procedure that has produced "Pyrex"-like nanoparticles. Currently most nanoparticles are made of polymers or silica...
Molecular Breast Imaging Researchers have found a way to “light up” cancer hiding in dense breast tissue. In the largest-ever study to compare molecular breast imaging (MBI) to mammography, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in...
Laser Comb is Ultraprecise A laser frequency comb, a new calibration technique that combines the incredible precision of an atomic clock with the sharp spectral features of laser light, has been used at a solar telescope to...
Helium Ion Microscope “It's the physics,” explained Andras Vladar, of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Nanoscale-Metrology Group, when referring to the new helium ion microscope. NIST...
Feds Raid Spectranetics Spectranetics Corp. said it is cooperating fully with an investigation related to its products and business practices after a raid by federal authorities on Thursday. Spectranetics, which makes...
Helios Project Awarded $12M Helios, a four-year project that seeks to find an innovative way to combine a photonic layer with a CMOS circuit, has been awarded an €8.5 million ($12 million) grant from the European Commission....
Probe IDs Atomic Fingerprint A new way of measuring a quantum system's energy level could help overcome a key barrier to the advent of superfast quantum computers, seen as potentially powerful tools for applications such as code...
Sonofusion Scholar Sanctioned A Purdue University professor found to have committed research misconduct will remain on the faculty but has been stripped of his named professorship, the school announced.In addition to losing his...
Newport Outsourcing Lasers Newport Corp. will move some of its laser and other manufacturing to China and cut about 10 percent of its worldwide workforce of 2000, the company announced late yesterday. Those actions and other...
Science Medalists Announced President George W. Bush has announced the recipients of the 2007 National Medal of Science and the 2007 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, considered the most prestigious honors in the...
Atom Smasher Dates Fine Wine French scientists are using high-energy ion beams from a particle accelerator to tell vintage Bordeaux wines from fakes. According to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, the...
Perfect LSST Mirror Blank More than 100 astronomers, physicists and engineers throughout the country are celebrating a major milestone – a 51,900-lb mirror blank that is a perfect fit for a Large Synoptic Survey Telescope...
PRODUCTS
Verdi V12 Green Laser SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 30, 2008 – Coherent Inc. has launched the Verdi V12 diode-pumped solid-state laser with a high-power CW output at 532 nm. The V12 adds to a family of Verdi lasers including the V2, V5, V6, V8 and V10 models....
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Optometer NEWBURYPORT, Mass., Sept. 29, 2008 – Gigahertz Optik Inc. has released the X1-1 handheld optometer to simultaneously operate and display multiple detector measurements of the company’s XD-450X three-cell detector series. The...
Gigahertz-Optik Inc.
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Multisensor & Intell. Cameras MANNHEIM, Germany, Sept. 29, 2008 – VRmagic GmbH has announced it will release an FPGA camera with up to four pixel-synchronous sensors and a compact, programmable intelligent camera. The FPGA camera features CMOS sensors with global...
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Electrostatic Voltage Sensor MEDINA, N.Y., Sept. 26, 2008 – Trek Inc. has introduced the Model 875 electrostatic voltage sensor designed for in-line monitoring of electrostatic charge build-up. The sensor offers manufacturers of electrostatic-sensitive...
TREK Inc.
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Cryogenic Probe Stations HARPENDEN, UK, Sept. 24, 2008 – Elliot Scientific Ltd. has unveiled its range of cryogenic micromanipulated probe stations from Lake Shore Cryotronics. The company’s portfolio includes table-top, superconducting and...
Elliot Scientific Ltd.
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Optical Table System IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 23, 2008 – The SmartTable OTS optical table system from Newport Corp. is suitable for a range of applications, including laser microscopy, optical trapping, carrier-envelope phase studies and STED imaging....
Newport Corporation
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Autocorrelator WIEN, Austria, Sept. 22, 2008 – Femtolasers Produktions GmbH has announced the availability of the Femtometer, a Michelson interferometer-based autocorrelator developed for ultrashort pulse characterization. The autocorrelator...
Spectra-Physics Vienna
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Temperature Control SALISBURY, UK, Sept. 18, 2008 – NanoSight Ltd. has added a temperature control to its family of nanoparticle characterization instrumentation. The temperature-controlled stage operates from five degrees below ambient to 50 °C and...
NanoSight Ltd.
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Laser Nozzles PROVIDENCE, R.I., Sept. 16, 2008 – Laser Research Optics, a division of Meller Optics Inc., has introduced a line of high accuracy replacement nozzles for CO2 cutting lasers. The nozzles are available with 1.2, 1.5, 2.0 or 3.0 mm...
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GPON SFP Transceiver CHESSINGTON, UK, Sept. 12, 2008 – Fujikura Europe Ltd. has launched its Gigabit passive optical network small form factor pluggable (GPON SFP) transceiver for FTTX network system vendors. The GPON offers more enhanced security,...
Fujikura Europe Ltd.
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Laser Scribing Systems IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 12, 2008 – Newport Corp. has introduced the SolaryX 420 and SolaryX 1660P laser scribing systems for thin-film photovoltaic process development applications. The 420 system is designed for scribing the...
Newport Corporation
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High Performance Spectrograph CARROLLTON, Texas, Sept. 11, 2008 – Verity Instruments Inc. has released the SD1024FH super high performance spectrograph for semiconductor process control applications. The spectrograph optimizes signal to noise performance via...
Verity Instruments Inc.
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High-Speed Camera Series KEHL, Germany, Sept. 9, 2008 – Optronis GmbH has introduced the CamRecord CR camera series for research, industry and other application fields. According to the company, the camera’s compact design offers high performance and...
Optronis GmbH
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Digital Light Source SAN DIEGO, Sept. 9, 2008 – Gamma Scientific has unveiled the RS-5NVIS digital light source to test and calibrate ANVIS radiometers and spectroradiometers. Suitable for compliance testing in applications such as cockpit...
Gamma Scientific
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One-Piece HD Camera IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 8, 2008 – Toshiba Imaging Systems Div., specializing in high definition industrial camera technology, has introduced the IK-HR1D, an HDTV camera that features full 1080p scan resolution. According to...
Toshiba Imaging Systems
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Ultrasonic Sensor MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 4, 2008 – The UC4 ultrasonic sensor from Sick Inc. offers detection of optically difficult targets and provides performance in optically challenging environments. According to the company, the sensor is the...
SICK Inc.
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Lasiris PureBeam Laser SALEM, N.H., Sept. 4, 2008 – StockerYale Inc. has added a fiber-coupled laser to its existing line of Lasiris lasers for biomedical applications. The PureBeam laser is offered in a range of wavelengths, including 375, 405,...
ProPhotonix Ltd.
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Hexagonal Point Generator REHOVOT, Israel, Sept. 3, 2008 – Holo/Or Ltd. has released it series of Hexagonal elements suitable for many applications. The seven-spot version of the point generator for 1064 nm offers a high transmission efficiency of 95...
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