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PowerPhotonics Plans New Manufacturing Facility DALGETY BAY, Scotland, Sept. 22, 2017 — Micro-optics developer PowerPhotonic Ltd. has announced plans to invest in a new facility that will triple its current manufacturing capacity. Scheduled to be completed by the end of 2018, the company’s move will transfer its operations into a larger, 15,820-sq-ft facility to capitalize on global growth opportunities. The investment will include the creation of a new Class 1000 clean room facility, which expands production capacity for PowerPhotonic’s micro-optic technology.
QD Lasers Could Be Smallest to Date HONG KONG, Sept. 21, 2017 — Record-small electrically pumped micro-lasers have been epitaxially grown on industry standard (001) silicon substrates. Continuous-wave lasing up to 100 degrees Celsius was demonstrated at 1.3 μm communication wavelength. Researchers achieved a...
Underwater Video Achieves Quality by Improving Bandwidth THUWAL, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 20, 2017 — Underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) systems could be a flexible and cost-effective technology for streaming high-quality underwater video images. Existing technologies like acoustic communications and low-frequency radio waves are...
US Army Research Helping the Development of Autonomous Sight Systems ABERDEEN, Md., Sept. 19, 2017 — The development of small autonomous robots through a 10-year effort led by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is helping to inform the development of future swarms of collaborative, heterogeneous Army systems for air and ground. Researchers...
Insight into Glass Formation Could Lead to Coatings, Other Applications PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18, 2017 — To better understand the optical properties of stable glasses, and whether they are analogous to the properties of naturally aged glasses, researchers developed perfectly round molecules that retain their three-dimensional shapes and do not...
VLBI, Gaia Data Could Improve Our Understanding of Quasars MOSCOW, Sept. 18, 2017 — By analyzing unexpected discrepancies between high-precision observations conducted by an international network of radio telescopes and that of Gaia, the space observatory of the European Space Agency, scientists have determined the properties of...
Cloaking Approach Enables Light to Pass Through Without Scattering VIENNA, Sept. 14, 2017 — In a novel approach to cloaking technology, researchers irradiated an opaque material from above, using a specific wave pattern that allowed light waves from the left to pass through the material without any obstruction. The researchers believe that...
Tunable Nanoparticle Layer Switches Between a ‘Mirror’ and a ‘Window’ LONDON, Sept. 13, 2017 — Researchers have made a reversible electrotunable filter that can change between a reflective ‘mirror’ and a transmissive ‘window’. This discovery could help scientists create special materials whose optical properties could...
High-Speed Quantum Memory Retrieves Photons on Demand BASEL, Switzerland, Sept. 11, 2017 — A quantum memory that offers relatively fast and simple retrieval could someday be used for building a “quantum Internet.” The technology stores photons in a gas of rubidium (RB) atoms and uses a laser to control the storage and...
2D Material’s High Tunability Could Augment Optoelectronics Applications BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 7, 2017 — Research into a 2D material has revealed information about its tunability and band gap, that could help scientists to isolate, enhance and manipulate its most desirable qualities. Potential applications for atomically thin 2D materials range from...
ChipScope Launches Under Leadership of University of Barcelona BARCELONA, Spain, Sept. 6, 2017 — ChipScope, a European research project under the leadership of the University of Barcelona, aims to develop a completely new and extremely small optical microscope capable of observing the interior of living cells in real time. A consortium of...
Metasurface-Coated Waveguides Reduce Crosstalk STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 5, 2017 — Engineers have developed a conformal metasurface coating that can simultaneously control diverse optical properties of dielectric waveguides, including mode confinement, polarization, scattering signature and crosstalk. The two-layer coating can...
ARL Paper Highlighted by Optics Letters ADELPHI, Md., Sept. 5, 2017 — A published paper written by U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) scientist Fredrik Fatemi was chosen as an Editor's Pick in the journal Optics Letters. The paper, "Dynamics of trapped atoms around an optical nanofiber probed through polarimetry,"...
Fiberguide Partners With Micron Optics to Provide Fiber Bragg Grating Optical Sensors STIRLING, N.J., Sept. 5, 2017 — Optical fiber and assembly supplier Fiberguide Industries Inc. has partnered with sensing technology developer Micron Optics Inc. to manufacture its line of fiber Bragg grating optical sensors. The sensors are a product of a Micron Optics design...
Hogg to Lead MOCVD CST Global Project GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. 4, 2017 — Semiconductor foundry CST Global Ltd. has announced that Professor Richard Hogg at the University of Glasgow will lead a project to commission and operate a new metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) machine. The MOCVD machine results from...
Enhancing Sensitivity at Higher-Order Exceptional Points ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 1, 2017 — A state of exceptional sensitivity, formed when a third nanoparticle is added to an optical microcavity already containing two light scatterers, is being studied by researchers as the potential basis for a system that could detect objects at the...
Boston Micromachines Awarded Two NASA Contracts for Deformable Mirror Technology CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 1, 2017 — Boston Micromachines Corp., a provider of microelectromechanical (MEMS) system-based deformable mirror products, has been awarded two contracts through NASA’s Astrophysics Research and Analysis Program (APRA) and Small Business Innovation...
Laser Cavity Reveals Fundamental Physics Driving Its Optical Responses ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 1, 2017 — The optical response of an externally probed laser cavity was monitored before and after gain clamping to reveal the underlying mechanisms of the cavity’s response. The research provided a unique window into fundamental physics and optical...
SemiProbe Installs Probe System at VTT WINOOSKI, Vt., Aug. 31, 2017 — Probing and inspection system developer SemiProbe Inc. has installed its 200-mm Fully Automatic Electro-Optical Probe System at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., a primary research and technology organization in Europe. VTT has...
Optical Approach Finds Jet Thermal Coating Weak Spots EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 29, 2017 — A strain-measurement technique uses optical analysis to reveal weak areas in the ceramic thermal barrier coatings that protect jet engine turbines from high temperatures and wear. This technique could be used to predict coating lifetime and could...
Quantum Dots Provide Basis for Tumor Imaging System LA JOLLA, Calif., August 25, 2017 — A novel proof-of-concept nanosystem for the visualization of tumors generates bright tumor signals by delivering near-infrared quantum dots (QDs) to cancer cells without any toxic effects. The QDs are delivered intravenously into extravascular tumor...
High-Dimensional Quantum Encryption Takes Place in Real-World Conditions OTTAWA, Ontario, Aug. 25, 2017 — A quantum-secured message containing more than one bit of information per photon has been sent through the air above the city of Ottawa. According to scientists, this is the first time high-dimensional quantum encryption has been demonstrated with...
LEO Science & Tech Hub Announce Imaging Technology Partnership CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 24, 2017 — LEO Science & Tech Hub, an R&D unit of LEO Pharma, has announced two collaborative projects with The Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. The Hub will provide research funding to support development of novel...
Low-Energy Laser Pulse Generates Relativistic Electron Beams COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 23, 2017 — Relativistic electrons driven by low-energy, ultrashort mid-infrared (MIR) laser pulses have been produced, according to researchers for the first time. Researchers used long-wavelength low energy femtosecond (fs) laser pulses to study relativistic...
Levitated Optomechanics Could Lead to Advances in Sensing Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 23, 2017 — A study supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) will employ the emerging field of levitated optomechanics to investigate precision quantum sensing technologies. Laser trapping techniques and quantum mechanics will be used to test the limits...
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