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US Air Force Tests Low-Power Optical Communications System for Satellites
Researchers at the Starfire Optical Range of the US Air Force's Phillips Laboratory have demonstrated an ultralow-power optical communications system designed for small satellites. The team tracked a...
Research Corporation Technologies Patents Blue Laser Advance
Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) has patented a technology developed by scientists at Brown and Purdue universities that the company says will solve a major problem in the development of blue...
British Aerospace Society Publishes Report on Photonics in Avionics
A report titled "Applications of Photonics in Avionics: Statement of Anticipated Requirements" and offered by the Society of British Aerospace Companies provides an overview of prospective avionics...
System Uses Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy to Gauge Wafer Temperature
SEATTLE -- Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of British Columbia have developed a noninvasive instrument for precisely measuring the temperature of a semiconductor...
Conductus Inc., Standards Agency Join to Design Superconducting Bolometer
Conductus Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed an ultrasensitive high-temperature superconducting bolometer for infrared imaging...
Lobsters Serve as Inspiration for X-Ray Lithography Technology
STURBRIDGE, Mass. -- A new lens design originally created for applications in astronomy, and based on the eye structure of a lobster, holds promise in the etching of ultrasmall electronic components...
Department of Energy Eyes Nanocrystal Implants for Better Displays
Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated the ability to implant high concentrations of metallic and semiconductor nanocrystals in surface layers of...
NASA to Test Image Radiometer for Cloud Measurement
GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has taken delivery of an uncooled, multispectral infrared imaging system -- called the first of its kind by its builder, Space Instruments Inc. of...
New Semiconductor Materials Yield Broadband Amplifier Fiber
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A new fabrication technique has created cylindrical optical fibers that promise to enable small broadband optical amplifiers for use in communications networks, according to...
'Artificial Nose' Uses Fiber Optics to Emulate the Real Thing
MEDFORD, Mass. -- One of the most complex sensors of all -- the human nose -- is the inspiration for a fiber optic sensor that can detect and differentiate chemical vapors better than commercial...
Smooth Plasma Would Improve X-Ray Lasers
Smoothing the plasma from an x-ray laser amplifier could improve the device's efficiency by up to 50 percent, according to researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The research...
Process Control System Produces High Laser Yields
ENDICOTT, N.Y. -- A novel process-monitoring and -control system has produced excellent semiconductor laser wafer yields, according to the president of a company that has licensed the technology from...
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Catalog Company Splits Its Efforts
BARRINGTON, N.J. -- Edmund Scientific has split into two divisions to better serve the growing numbers of industrial customers. The company announced last month that Frank DiMinno has taken over as president of its growing Industrial Optics Div., which accounts for about 75 percent of the company's sales. Gwynne Edmund will be president of the Consumer Science Div., which serves hobbyists and...
Irish Research Institute Chooses Belgian Micromachining System for New Lab
The National Micro-Electronics Research Institute of Cork, Ireland, is establishing a laser micromachining laboratory within its NMRC Materials Group that will use the LightDeck Micromachining System...
Lambda Physik Fills $1 Million Order from US Diamond-Film Firm
Lambda Physik GmbH of Göttingen, Germany, has delivered a $1 million order of excimer lasers to QQC Inc. of Detroit, for use in multiplexed laser cell diamond-film production. In QQC's laser...
Lucent Spins Off in Flurry of Stocks
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Like a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, AT&T scattered 525 million shares of Lucent Technologies stock on the investment community to mark the completion of Lucent's spin-off...
Machine Tool Show Highlights Industrial Applications of Photonics
CHICAGO -- Laser machining, rapid prototyping, optical inspection and light-based metrology found their niches among the tens of thousands of exhibits at the International Manufacturing Technology...
Ohio State Seeks Role in Two Major Observatories
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State University is seeking a partnership role in two major observatories, one of which will house the world's largest telescope on a single mount. The university would buy...
Real-Time Image Processing Market Soars
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- The real-time image processing market has been on a roll, thanks to marked improvements in both the performance and price of computer platforms and high-resolution cameras....
Siemens Sells All Shares of Its Rofin-Sinar Group
Munich-based Siemens AG has divested itself of its laser-manufacturing subsidiary, the Rofin-Sinar Group, by selling all of the group's 10 million shares of stock at $9.50 per share. Formerly part of...
Standards Institute Solicits Applicants for Precision Measurement Grants
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is accepting project proposals for its Precision Measurement Grants for Fiscal Year 1998. The institute awards the grants to faculty members at US...
Teddi Laurin Wins OSA Award for Engineering Excellence
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The Optical Society of America (OSA) presented its 1996 Engineering Excellence Awards to Teddi C. Laurin of Laurin Publishing Co. Inc. and Gary Blough of Rochester Photonics Corp....
ThermoTrex Wins Army, Air Force Contracts to Develop Laser Technologies
San Diego-based ThermoTrex Corp. has received a $7.1 million contract from the US Army Missile Command and the US Air Force Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to modify its rapid optical...
Two Photonics Researchers at Phillips Win Awards
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Janet S. Fender, the technical director of the US Air Force Phillips Laboratory's Optical Sensing Div. and 1997 president-elect of the Optical Society of America, has been...
University of Rochester Alumni Seek Endowed Chair Honoring Hopkins
The University of Rochester's Institute of Optics has launched a campaign to establish an endowed chair honoring Robert E. Hopkins, former director of the institute and former president of the...
Accent on Applications
Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer Tests Fuel-Injector Systems
Now that those long waits at the gas station of the 1970s are just a memory, and drivers can relax and enjoy their bigger, but still more-fuel-efficient cars, auto manufacturers are facing new emission standards scheduled to go into effect in 1998. Researchers struggling with the perpetual battle to improve fuel efficiency are focusing on fuel-injection systems for spark injection engines, and...
Projection Technology Brings Theater Backdrop to Life
Theater-goers who were fortunate enough to attend a recent production of Shakespeare's The Tempest got an unexpected treat when they witnessed the normally motionless backdrop come to life. The...
TV Broadcasting Gets Real-Time Lighting
Sports fans are going to be a lot happier watching those all-important football games this season. One TV network is making sure its viewers don't miss out on the action when the players move from...
Presstime Bulletin
Researchers Use Femtosecond X-Ray Beams for Atomic Structure Studies
Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., have generated a 300-fs-pulse x-ray for studying the motion of atoms during ultrafast physical and chemical processes. According to a paper published in Science, the team created the beams by sending a short, powerful pulse of infrared laser light across the path of a narrowly focused electron beam. Such pulsed x-rays...
Last Call for Photonics Circle of Excellence Entries
Manufacturers of photonic products have until Nov. 15 to enter the 10th annual Photonics Circle of Excellence competition for the 25 most innovative products of the year. Products brought to the...
Photonics Firm Reports High UV Power for Third-Harmonic Nd:YLF Output
Stony Brook, N.Y.-based Photonics Industries International Inc. has generated what it says is the highest power at UV wavelength ever reported for the Q-switched Nd:YLF laser third-harmonic output....
LEOMA/OSA Schedule Human Resources Seminar for Photonics Industry
A seminar targeting human resource problems that confront the photonics industry is being offered by the Laser and Electro-Optics Manufacturers' Association (LEOMA) and the Optical Society of America...
Newport Fiber Optics Conference Draws 170 from 17 Countries
Worldwide fiber optic cable deployment reached 22.8 million kilometers in 1995 and will top the 63 million mark by the year 2001 with the US, Japan and China leading the way, according to sponsor KMI...
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