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QCL News
Daylight Solutions Marks QCL Testing Milestones
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 10, 2014 — Daylight Solutions Inc. has reached major milestones under its reliability characterization and growth program for quantum cascade laser (QCL) technology. The company has clocked more than 1 million hours of QCL operation, and more than 250,000 hours of fully packaged QLC module operation. More than 80 individual QLCs, from five different epitaxial wafers, are being evaluated as part of the program. Units tested are sampled from high-yield, commercial production; all maintain optical
Daylight Solutions, Thorlabs Partner on QCL Projects
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 28, 2014 — Daylight Solutions Inc. and Thorlabs will work together to develop quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) for defense and security applications. Meanwhile, Thorlabs recently acquired Corning Inc.’s QCL business and associated optical semiconductor...
New Terahertz System Simpler, Clearer
EVANSTON, Ill., June 6, 2014 — Biosensing, space research and the ability to see through opaque surfaces without x-rays are all enabled by terahertz radiation. However, such systems have long been elusive. A team from Northwestern University has produced terahertz radiation in a...
Cancer Imaging Expert Joins University of Houston
HOUSTON, Texas, June 3, 2014 — The University of Houston will use a $2 million recruitment grant from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas to hire Dr. David Mayerich, who will conduct QCL and knife-edge scanning microscopy research to improve cancer...
THz QCL Hits Light Output Milestone
VIENNA, Oct. 29, 2013 — Using special symmetrical laser structures, a group in Vienna says it has created a terahertz quantum cascade laser (QCL) with four times higher light output than other such existing devices, crossing a major hurdle to the widespread use of such...
Capasso a Guest Scientist at MPQ
GARCHING, Germany, July 15, 2013 — Internationally renowned applied physicist Federico Capasso of Harvard University is joining the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) as a guest scientist this month. Professor Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and...
Theoretical calculation proposes using heat to power QCLs
INNSBRUCK, Austria – Heat generated in a quantum cascade laser (QCL) – something that normally causes the lasing to turn off – could actually be used to power the device instead, according to a theoretical calculation developed at the University of...
Theorists Propose Using Heat to Power QCLs
INNSBRUCK, Austria, Nov. 14, 2012 — What if you could use the heat generated in a quantum cascade laser — something that normally causes the lasing to turn off — to power the device instead?
Griot Group to Sell for Block Engineering in Western US
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Sept. 5, 2012 — Block Engineering, a manufacturer of quantum cascade laser-based and Fourier transform infrared spectrometers, has added the Griot Group as a sales representative. The Griot Group has sales and administration offices in Irvine and Santa Clara,...
Block Engineering Adds Sales Reps
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Aug. 8, 2012 — To strengthen its focus on commercial markets, the quantum cascade laser manufacturer has added SKAE Associates of Lexington, Mass., and Pembroke Instruments of San Francisco to its family of sales representatives.
Riggi to Lead QCL Sales at Block Engineering
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., June 20, 2012 — As vice president of sales, Riggi will lead all sales activities for Block’s line of quantum cascade laser products.
Block MEMS Garners SBIR Contract
Jun 1, 2012 — Block MEMS LLC has received a US Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II enhancement contract for its LaserScan analyzer. The award will allow it to enhance the LaserScan’s capabilities through the development of chemical...
Northrop Grumman Laser Deemed Integration-Ready
APOPKA, Fla., April 4, 2012 — The company’s Laser Systems business unit announced that its All Semiconductor Airborne Laser Threat Terminator infrared countermeasure laser system has advanced to Technology Readiness Level 6, a government measurement system that includes nine...
Block MEMS to Provide LaserScan Analyzers to DoD
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., April 2, 2012 — The quantum cascade laser and FTIR spectrometer engineering and development company was awarded a chemical and biological defense contract to provide its LaserScan Analyzer for evaluation in the Multi-Mission Multi-Threat Detection Technology...
Cascade lasers pulse more powerfully
WARSAW, Poland – New mid-infrared gallium arsenide (GaAs)-based cascade lasers with a pulse three times stronger than previous versions could prove useful for industrial and medical applications. The Institute of Electron Technology (ITE) has developed technology to...
Block MEMS Garners SBIR Contract
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Feb. 27, 2012 — The engineering and development company received a Phase II award for the enhancement of its LaserScan analyzer.
Cascade Lasers Made More Powerful
WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 16, 2012 — New mid-infrared gallium arsenide (GaAs) -based cascade lasers with a pulse three times stronger than previous versions could prove useful for industrial and medical applications. The Institute of Electron Technology (ITE) has developed...
QCL-Based Laser Makes the Grade
Sep 1, 2011 — Daylight Defense LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daylight Solutions Inc., has announced that its JammIR laser system successfully defeated heat-seeking missile threats during a test conducted by the US Air Force. The quantum cascade laser...
Ones to Watch
Aug 1, 2011 — IEEE Photonics Society Awards The Young Investigator Award honors an individual who has made outstanding technical contributions to photonics prior to his or her 35th birthday. The 2011 Young Investigator is Hatice Altug, an assistant professor...
QCL-Based JammIR Laser Successfully Tested
SAN DIEGO, July 7, 2011 — Daylight Defense LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daylight Solutions Inc., announced that its JammIR laser system successfully defeated heat-seeking missile threats during a test conducted by the US Air Force. Throughout the test program, the...
Block Engineering Gains Investor
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., April 11, 2011 — Block Engineering, a quantum cascade laser (QCL) based spectrometer developer, announced that Michael L. Bickford of Vero Beach, Fla., has made a major equity investment in the company and has joined as one of its directors. With...
THz Photonic Integrated Circuit Formed
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., June 30, 2010 — By integrating a terahertz quantum-cascade laser and diode mixer into a monolithic solid-state transceiver, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories successfully formed a terahertz (THz) photonic integrated circuit that can provide improved...
My Summer with MIRTHE
Mar 18, 2010 — I have never been particularly interested in the field of engineering. Physics? No thank you, I’ll stick to English and history. So when my father came to me with the opportunity to work in a lab in Princeton for the summer, I was feeling more than...
QCL peak power record smashed
EVANSTON, Ill. – Only a year ago, the peak output power of a quantum cascade laser (QCL) was 34 W. Today, thanks to researchers at the Center for Quantum Devices at Northwestern University, peak power of 120 W from a single device at room temperature has been...
THz Laser Tuning Detects Substances at Airports – and Elsewhere
Jan 13, 2010 — Detecting dangerous materials at airports is a high security priority, and the Christmas Day events in an airplane over Detroit served to put a new spotlight on materials detection. One challenge for current techniques is that they cannot always...
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