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The Highest Powered Laser in the World

The Texas Petawatt laser reached greater than one petawatt of laser power on Monday morning, March 31, making it the highest powered laser in the world, Todd Ditmire, a physicist at The University of Texas at Austin, said.

8 Apr 2008

Custom Laser Delivers More Than 300 Watts and is Comparable in Size to a Laptop

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer display, industrial, defense, and medical markets, announced today that it has shipped a compact custom Ultra(TM) laser exceeding 300 watts to a US Government prime contractor.

7 Apr 2008

Sensorii Delivers Suite of Enhancement, Camera Control Tools for Outdoor Cameras

Vumii, a developer of highly engineered yet easy to use long-range, day/night surveillance camera systems, announced the introduction of Sensorii, a new software platform designed to provide security personnel with a means to better manage pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) video cameras as well as heighten situational awareness for improved perimeter protection.

2 Apr 2008

Changing 100 Lives in 100 Minutes

In just 100 minutes on Wednesday, April 9, the lives of 100 low-income people in cities and towns across the United States will be changed forever, as their failing eyesight goes from murky to new-found clarity at all distances with crystalens® cataract-lens implants, free of charge.

2 Apr 2008

M-Com Selects Veeco MOCVD Tool for Production of High-Efficiency Solar Cells

Veeco Instruments Inc., announced today that Millenium Communication Co. Ltd. (M-Com) of Hsinchu, Taiwan has ordered a TurboDisc(R) E450(TM) arsenic phosphide (As/P) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) System for production of high-efficiency III-V compound multi-junction solar cells.

From Veeco 2 Apr 2008

LIGHTimes Announces the Return of the Blue LED Conference

CompoundSemi Online and Solid State Lighting Net, publishers of the LED industry supply chain news source, LIGHTimes Online, have announced the return of the "Blue" LED conference to Hsinchu, Taiwan, May 7-8, 2008.

1 Apr 2008

New Type of Imaging System That Can Illuminate Tumors in Living Subjects

Doctors' quest to see what is happening inside a living body has been hampered by the limits on detecting tiny components of internal structures and events. Now a team of Stanford University School of Medicine researchers has developed a new type of imaging system that can illuminate tumors in living subjects-getting pictures with a precision of nearly one-trillionth of a meter.

1 Apr 2008

New Technologies Help Customers to Move Science Forward

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today launched a number of innovative new products at Analytica 2008, the world's largest laboratory technology tradeshow, taking place in Munich, Germany, from April 1 - 4.

1 Apr 2008

New Moria Microkeratome Provides All the Benefits of SBK at a Much More Economical Cost

Moria will unveil its new One Use-Plus SBK microkeratome at this year's meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in Chicago. At the Moria booth on April 5, Richard J. Duffey, MD will present the results of his clinical trials.

1 Apr 2008

The Smallest and Lightest 40/43Gbps Test Solution

Digital Lightwave®, Inc., a leading provider of optical networking test equipment and technology, today announced that the NIC 40/43G Testing Module can be ordered with a tunable laser for C-Band or L-Band application with NRZ, Duo-Binary and DPSK line codes available.

31 Mar 2008