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Report: US Should Do More to Support Optics
Jul 1, 1998 — The National Research Council's Committee on Optical Science and Engineering has published a report, Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century, pointing to optics as the leader of the next technology revolution. The optics field is so broad and encompassing, noted committee chairman Charles V. Shank of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, that the committee decided to focus its efforts on leading-edge developments. The report recommends that...
Submarine Makers Test Their Own Optical Fiber
Jul 1, 1998 — As part of a modernization of its Trident II submarine, General Dynamics Defense Systems is installing a faster network, phasing out its Ethernet system in favor of a fiber distributed data interface system. While optical fiber will speed up the...
Target Acquisition:
Jul 1, 1998 — The criteria that the military uses to develop its targeting and surveillance imagers may be useful to those who are developing other types of imaging systems, such as microscopes, machine vision systems, consumer digital cameras and surveillance...
Coherent Joins Precision Laser Consortium
Jun 1, 1998 — Coherent Inc.'s Semiconductor Group in Santa Clara, Calif., has joined the Precision Laser Machining Consortium, a group of 24 companies administered and partially funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Their mission is to develop...
Engineers Test-Fire Airborne Laser
Jun 1, 1998 — The Airborne Laser Program has reached another milestone. In April, the US Air Force successfully tested the system, which points and focuses a laser at a hostile missile. Engineers conducted the experiments on a beam control system demonstrator...
Facial Recognition System Verifies Driver's Identity
Jun 1, 1998 — A computerized facial recognition system, employing advanced algorithms coupled with off-the-shelf imaging equipment, has given this state's motor vehicles division an advantage in determining a license applicant's identity. Not long ago, there were...
Holography Comes to the Masses
Jun 1, 1998 — Since its introduction, holography has been stifled by its lengthy and complicated production process and limitations in image quality -- putting it beyond the reach of commercial success. Two companies are hoping to overcome those barriers by...
Names In The News
Jun 1, 1998 — The US Defense Department presented its highest civilian award, the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, to Robert Q. Fugate, senior scientist for atmospheric compensation at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at...
New Machine Speeds Manufacture of Aspheres
Jun 1, 1998 — Engineers from the University of Rochester in New York, along with scientists at the US Department of Defense and seven corporate partners, have designed a system that automates the manufacture of specially shaped lenses known as aspheres. Aspheres...
Pentagon Urges Cooperation on Weapons Planning with Allies in Europe, Japan
Jun 1, 1998 — In an effort to coordinate a better defense among allied nations, the Pentagon has called for increased cooperation with Japan and Europe in the production of new weapons, including remote sensors. US Undersecretary of Defense Jacques Gansler said...
Russia Spins off Labs into Private Companies
Jun 1, 1998 — As economic straits force the Russian government to shed some of its Soviet-era overhead, research groups within many of the state-controlled institutions are becoming private companies. Officials are debating putting entire laboratories on the...
Solid-State Lasers Join the Space Race
Jun 1, 1998 — In the 60s and 70s, scientists had carte blanche to develop space instruments. However, in todayis cost-conscious space programs, laser designers look towards Earth and improving commercial technologies to meet cost guidelines and accomplish mission...
Laser Component Builders Get Quality Boost
May 1, 1998 — Thanks to researchers at the University of Michigan, manufacturers of microelectronics used in laser production soon will have access to a device that will for the first time allow critical analysis of key aspects of the process. "Microelectronics...
National Science Foundation Tests Turbulence Sensor
May 1, 1998 — As most frequent fliers know, turbulence can be both a nuisance and a danger. Scientists aboard a research aircraft owned by the National Science Foundation tested a new detector that could provide a first defense against these dangerous patches of...
New Twist: Lasers Could Help Create Larger Microchips
May 1, 1998 — Microchip and display companies are showing interest in a variation on a laser micromachining technique that creates large-area, low-defect crystalline silicon films. Liquid crystal displays and microchips use amorphous silicon as the substrate for...
Political Pressure, Hasty Testing Marred Star Wars Program
May 1, 1998 — An independent panel has submitted a negative critique of the Strategic Defense Initiative -- known as Star Wars -- in a far-ranging 76-page report titled "Reducing Risk in Ballistic Missile Defense Flight Programs." The report said decisions by...
Blue Lasers Aim at Optical Data Storage, Display Markets
Apr 1, 1998 — In the latest entry in the race to develop a high-power blue laser, SDL Inc. has introduced a semiconductor laser based on gallium nitride. The San Jose, Calif.-based company's entry emits at multiple wavelengths between 400 and 410 nm and features...
Diode-Pumped Kilowatt Laser Is Brighter, More Powerful
Apr 1, 1998 — With the goal of advancing diode-pumped solid-state laser technology by making lasers brighter and more powerful, TRW Inc. of Redondo Beach, Calif., introduced its newest diode array-pumped kilowatt laser at Photonics West. The company says this...
Lidar Helps Unravel Environmental Mysteries
Apr 1, 1998 — From coastal waterways to Alpine summits, light detection and ranging technology demonstrates how photonics helps to unravel the mysteries of complex environmental processes while sharpening our vision of seas and skies. In Sweden, for example,...
Market Watchers Anticipate Growth in IR Imaging
Apr 1, 1998 — Increased demand for IR imaging focal plane array systems and sensors signal continued steady growth in the IR market, despite growing price and consolidation pressures on companies. That is the prediction from market watchdog Frost & Sullivan,...
Names in the News
Apr 1, 1998 — Polaroid Corp. has appointed Hemang D. Dave as vice president of new ventures. Dave had been president and CEO of CMG Direct Interactive in Andover, Mass. Roy Grayzel is the new products development manager for Acton Research Corp.'s Optical...
White House Unveils R&D Budget for Fiscal '99
Mar 1, 1998 — The White House has proposed $78.2 billion in R&D funding for the 1999 fiscal year, reflecting a renewed emphasis on support for scientific and university-based research facilities. The Clinton administration proposed $17 billion for basic...
Federal Agencies Join in Air Safety Program
Mar 1, 1998 — Despite the best efforts of air traffic controllers, pilots sometimes have to rely on old-fashioned visual sightings to avoid collisions. Although red or white anticollision lights on planes provide a last defense, the field intensity measurements...
Micromachine Aligns Optical Fiber
Mar 1, 1998 — Aligning optical fibers in manufacturing production lines may soon become easier, thanks to an active fiber optic microaligner developed by The Boeing Co. in St. Louis. The prototype device is 4 mm square and 0.5 mm high, small enough to fit inside...
Raytheon Amber Closes Facility, Merges with Hughes
Mar 1, 1998 — Raytheon Amber, a manufacturer of infrared focal plane array technology, plans to close its facility here and consolidate operations in what was formerly the Hughes Santa Barbara Research Center. The move comes as part of a widespread restructuring...
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