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Newport Demonstrates New Fiber Lasers at the Laser 2007

Newport Corporation announced today that the company will be demonstrating its new single mode 100 and 200 watt continuous wave (CW) fiber lasers at the LASER 2007 World of Photonics show being held June 18-20 in Munich, Germany.

From Newport Corporation 17 Jul 2007

HORIBA Jobin Yvon Introduces Fast and Low Cost Spectroscopic Ellipsometer and Polarimeter

HORIBA Jobin Yvon introduces the MM-16, a spectroscopic ellipsometer dedicated to advanced characterization of a broad range of materials such as semiconductors, compounds, alloys and organics.

16 Jul 2007

New Class of Ultra-Thin Polymer Films

They said it couldn't be done. And that's what really motivated UD polymer chemist Chris Snively and Jochen Lauterbach, professor of chemical engineering at UD. For years, polymer chemistry textbooks have ...

15 Jul 2007

World's First Anti-Reflection Coating

A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created the world's first material that reflects virtually no light.

13 Jul 2007

$2 Million to Improve Sensitivity and Resolution of the Keck Interferometer

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the W. M. Keck Observatory $2 million to improve the sensitivity and resolution of the Keck Interferometer.

13 Jul 2007

New Sodium Laser for Astronomers

A new sodium laser is giving 50 times more sky coverage to the atmospheric-correcting technology known as adaptive optics on the Keck II telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

13 Jul 2007

Oak Ridge Wins Six R&D 100 Awards

Researchers and engineers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won six R&D 100 Awards, presented each year by R&D Magazine in recognition of the year's most significant technological innovations.

13 Jul 2007

University of Arkansas Develop Probe for Future Planetary Rovers

University of Arkansas researchers, in partnership with a local company will develop a probe for future planetary rovers that will help scientists study the history of the solar system by examining the properties of layers of material beneath the surface of the moon, Mars, comets and other planetary bodies.

13 Jul 2007

Scientists Cool Erbium-Doped Materials with Laser Light

A team of researchers at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) have experimentally demonstrated something that other scientists have been trying to achieve for decades: the cooling of erbium-doped materials with laser light.

8 Jul 2007

Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Devices

Building on a series of recent breakthroughs in silicon photonics, researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a novel approach to silicon devices that combines light amplification with a photovoltaic – or solar panel – effect.

8 Jul 2007