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Australian Pilots Under Laser Fire

AUSTRALIA'S largest airline pilot body has called for a national, unified bid to end the dangerous practice of aiming laser lights at aircraft as the number of reported cases escalates.

20 Sep 2007

Adaptive Optics Technologies Targeted at Bioimaging Applications

Three adaptive optics technologies available from Imagine Optic have been packaged together into a kit targeted at bioimaging applications.

20 Sep 2007

Faster Internet Speeds Available for Homes and Businesses in Sitka

Integrated communications provider Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc (ACS), has announced its fibre optic expansion and network equipment upgrade project in Sitka, has been completed.

20 Sep 2007

Laser Technology used in Fire Extinguisher Training

The BullsEye fire extinguisher training system uses laser technology to simulate the discharge of a dry chemical extinguisher for use in OSHA-mandated training.

20 Sep 2007

Boeing's Raygun Jumbo Jet

Senators are planning to cut budgets for the space interceptor portion of the controversial US missile defence programme, according to reports. However, it appears that a complementary scheme to blast enemy ICBMs shortly after takeoff using a giant laser cannon mounted in a jumbo jet will be fully funded.

20 Sep 2007

Radio Waves Offers New Possibility into Smaller and Simpler Equipment

Visible and ultraviolet laser light has been used for years to cool trapped atoms--and more recently larger objects--by reducing the extent of their thermal motion.

20 Sep 2007

New Laser Eye Surgery Device Designed to Improve Current Treatment for Glaucoma

Experts are testing a new laser eye surgery device that is designed to improve upon the current treatment for glaucoma.

20 Sep 2007

Sports Broadcasts Enhanced by an All-Digital Mational Fiber-Optic Network

HTN Communications, headquartered in New York City, has announced the launch of an all-digital national fiber-optic network designed to transport enhanced sports programming throughout the United States. The network, available to broadcasters, is expected to be ready in time for the start of the 2007-2008 NHL and NBA seasons.

19 Sep 2007

Fiber to the Home Network Available in France

The cooperative service provider, La Communauté d'Agglomération du Havre (CODAH), selected ACOME to deploy a fiber to the home (FTTH) network in Gonfreville-l'Orcher, France. The network will include a "catastrophe information" service to inform residents of any accidents in Seveso, a classified industrial zone.

19 Sep 2007

Great News for Children with "Lazy Eye"

British researchers say youngsters may not need to wear an eye patch 12 hours a day, as is currently recommended, to treat the condition. Instead, wearing the patch just three to four hours a day over a period of three m...

19 Sep 2007

Mirrors have Special Powers in the Hands of an Astronomer

Mirrors have special powers in the real world too, especially in the hands of an astronomer. In fact, modern astronomy depends on mirrors. Almost every telescope uses a mirror, sometimes several mirrors, to gather and guide starlight toward some super-sensitive digital detector where a breathtaking image can be formed. Without mirrors, it would be almost impossible to study the universe.

19 Sep 2007

Ground-Breaking Technique in Breast Cancer Diagnostics - Photoacoustic Mammoscope

Photoacoustic techniques can supplement conventional imaging techniques in breast cancer diagnostics. From first tests on patients using the ¡¥photoacoustic mammoscope¡¦ developed by the University of Twente, researcher Dr. Srirang Manohar concludes that the images obtained add valuable information about the vascularisation of a tumor. The research has been done in cooperation with the Medisch Spectrum Twente hospital in Enschede, and the results are published in the online journal Optics Express.

19 Sep 2007

Raytheon to Help Improve Laser-Based Systems for U.S. Air Force

Raytheon Co.'s operations in Marlborough has won a contract modification for $15.9 million from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to build an array of individual laser 'sub-apertures' that could act as either transmitters or receivers of laser energy, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

19 Sep 2007

Laser Diodes for Low Phase Noise Applications

Eblana Photonics Ltd. shipped the first batch of its single-wavelength laser diodes for analog and other ultra-narrow linewidth and low phase noise applications. The product series exhibits RIN down to -160 dB/Hz and emission linewidths below 100 kHz at emitted powers as low as 500 £gW.

19 Sep 2007

New Applications for Photonic Polymer Opals

A method for mass producing polymer opals that allow novel color-tuning characteristics has been developed by researchers in the UK and Germany. What's more, the researchers believe that they have found a way to make the materials more strongly colored which could open up a range of decorative, sensing, security and photonic applications.

19 Sep 2007