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Scientists Successfully Laser-Cool and Trap Radium Atoms

Argonne researchers have successfully laser-cooled and trapped atoms of radium — the first time this rare element has been captured in a magneto-optical trap — with an assist from an unexpected source.

5 Jul 2007

Scientists Use Laser Tweezers to Sort Atoms

Physicists of the University of Bonn have taken one more important hurdle on the path to what is known as a quantum computer: by using 'laser tweezers' they have succeeded in sorting up to seven atoms and lining them up.

5 Jul 2007

Large Study Evaluates Laser Treatment for AMD Vision Loss

According to a study that appears in the November 2006 issue of the journal Ophthalmology, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and 21 other clinical centers have found that low-intensity laser treatment - thought to be potentially beneficial in slowing or preventing the loss of vision from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) - is ineffective in preventing complications of AMD or vision loss.

5 Jul 2007

Lasers Used to Cool and Trap Erbium Atoms

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used lasers to cool and trap erbium atoms, a "rare earth" heavy metal with unusual optical, electronic and magnetic properties.

5 Jul 2007

New Book, Laser Beam Shaping Applications

Following up on their well-received first book, Laser Beam Shaping: Theory and Techniques, Sandia National Laboratories researchers Fred Dickey and Scott Holswade have edited (with David Shealy of the University of Alabama at Birmingham) a compact new volume, Laser Beam Shaping Applications.

5 Jul 2007

New Photonic Device for Greater Optical Data Storage

Engineers and applied scientists from Harvard University have demonstrated a new photonic device with a wide range of potential commercial applications, including dramatically higher capacity for optical data storage.

5 Jul 2007

ESA's GIOVE-A Laser Ranging Campaign Successful

Fourteen laser ranging stations participated in a campaign to track ESA's GIOVE-A satellite during the spring and summer of 2006, providing invaluable data for the characterisation of the satellite's on-board clock.

5 Jul 2007

New Laser-Based Technique Provides First Non-Invasive Test to Measure Skin Aging

Physicists and medical researchers for the first time have demonstrated a new technique that non-invasively measures in real time the level of damage to the skin from sun exposure and aging, and initial results suggest that women's skin ages faster than men's.

5 Jul 2007

Solvay and Georgia Tech Ink Deal on OLED Research

The Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) and Solvay announced a $3 million deal for OLED research today.

5 Jul 2007

World's Most Powerful Tunable Laser Shatters Another Power Record

The most powerful tunable laser in the world just shattered another power record: the Free-Electron Laser (FEL), supported by the Office of Naval Research and located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), produced a 14.2 kilowatt (kW) beam of laser light at an infrared wavelength of 1.61 microns on October 30.

5 Jul 2007

Optics & Photonics News

Scientists Successfully Laser-Cool and Trap Radium Atoms

Scientists Use Laser Tweezers to Sort Atoms

Large Study Evaluates Laser Treatment for AMD Vision Loss

Lasers Used to Cool and Trap Erbium Atoms

New Book, Laser Beam Shaping Applications

New Photonic Device for Greater Optical Data Storage

ESA's GIOVE-A Laser Ranging Campaign Successful

New Laser-Based Technique Provides First Non-Invasive Test to Measure Skin Aging

Solvay and Georgia Tech Ink Deal on OLED Research

World's Most Powerful Tunable Laser Shatters Another Power Record

Adaptive Optics Help Sharpen Night Sky

New Wave of Fiber Research

Frictionless Optics for ESA's Darwin Mission

Electrons Observed in Tunnelling Process

Dr. Peli of Schepens Eye Research Institute Elected SPIE Fellow

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