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Zecotek Photonics Signs Sales and Distribution Agreement for Products in Israel

Zecotek Photonics Inc. is pleased to announce that it has signed an exclusive sales and distribution agreement with Toyo Ram for Zecotek products in Israel.

28 May 2008

Quest for the Ideal Photonic Crystal

Researchers have been unable to build an ideal "photonic crystal" to manipulate visible light, impeding the dream of ultrafast optical computers. But now, University of Utah chemists have discovered that nature already has designed photonic crystals with the ideal, diamond-like structure: They are found in the shimmering, iridescent green scales of a beetle from Brazil.

20 May 2008

Physicists Developed New Near-Infrared Broadband Laser Materials

A team of physicists in the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) of the Physics Department at The City College of New York (CCNY) have developed new near-infrared broadband laser materials with tunability ranges around triple those of earlier crystals.

19 May 2008

Researchers Have Recently Doubled the Efficiency of Infrared Lasers

Researchers at the Center for Quantum Devices at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University have recently doubled the efficiency of infrared lasers under the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Efficient Mid-wave Infrared Lasers (EMIL) program.

19 May 2008

Key Milestone in Boeing's Advanced Tactical Laser Program

The Boeing Company has fired a high-energy chemical laser aboard a C-130H aircraft in ground tests for the first time, achieving a key milestone for the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration program.

19 May 2008

What’s Next in Advanced Display

Corning Incorporated will present its perspective on what's next in advanced display during Display Week 2008, the annual conference of the Society for Information Display (SID), held this week in Los Angeles, Calif. Corning has built its leadership position in liquid crystal display (LCD) by identifying existing and emerging technology market demands and translating those into powerful technology solutions that help shape the future of the display industry.

19 May 2008

Breakthrough Greatly Enhance Applications Ranging from Security Screening to Chemical Sensing

Engineers and applied physicists from Harvard University have demonstrated the first room-temperature electrically-pumped semiconductor source of coherent Terahertz (THz) radiation, also known as T-rays.

19 May 2008

Optimizing Glass in Order to Increase the Lifetime of Fiber Lasers

Researchers have found new methods for optimizing glass in order to increase the lifetime of fiber lasers. The trend is to produce fiber lasers with higher output powers, which places great demands on the optical fiber. This has been shown at Mid Sweden University in Sweden.

19 May 2008

Generation of Laser Light Without Needing Large Energy Input

Kishor Kapale, an assistant professor of physics at Western Illinois University, had his research, "Lasing Without Inversion: Counterintuitive Population Dynamics in the Transient Regime," published in the prestigious Physical Review Letters (PRL) vol. 100, article 173601 (April 29, 2008).

17 May 2008

RIT Effort Could Extend NASA Science Capabilities for Planetary Applications

Technology that could someday "MapQuest" Mars and other bodies in the solar system is under development at Rochester Institute of Technology's Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory (RIDL), in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory.

15 May 2008