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Laser Components and OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Announce North American Franchise Agreement for Distribution of Semiconductor Laser Products

Laser Components IG, Inc., a leading NAFTA distributor of high technology semiconductor pulsed lasers, detectors, high power laser optics and polarizers; and OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Inc., one of the worldwide leaders in semiconductor diode laser technology; today announced a franchise distribution agreement throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico effective May 1, 2007.

27 Jul 2007

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Presents High-Power Portfolio at Laser Fair 2007

In addition to the world's smallest and first surface-mountable high-power laser for continuous wave mode (cw mode), OSRAM Opto Semiconductors will be presenting water-cooled vertical laser stacks and laser bars in standard “CS mount” casings for the first time in Europe in Hall B1, Stand 402.

27 Jul 2007

Smallest Continuous Wave Laser in the World

This tiny 2.5 mm high laser has a footprint of only 6.0 x 4.5 mm². The dustproof, electrically insulated package has an impressively small thermal resistance of just about 2.5 K/W. This tiny unit is designed for ...

27 Jul 2007

OSRAM Creates New World Record - Peak Values for Red High-Current Chips

Brightness values of over 300 lm have been achieved by OSRAM Opto Semi-conductors with a red 1 mm² chip featuring the latest InGAlP thin-film technol-ogy. The chips are designed primarily for projection applications, bringing a real boost in brightness to this sector. They will be used in Dragon and Ostar LEDs.

27 Jul 2007

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Wins Innovator Award 2007

In the Best Innovator competition 2007, sponsored by A. T. Kearney and Wirtschaftswoche magazine, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors was the overall winner in all five categories of innovation management.

27 Jul 2007

OSTAR Headlamp Achieves 620 Lumen

The new OSTAR Headlamp LED is now more than twice as bright as its predecessor, which at 250 lm was already one of the top performers in its class.

27 Jul 2007

Brookhaven Scientists Generate Extremely Short Pulses of Light

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have generated extremely short pulses of light that are the strongest of their type ever produced and could prove invaluable in probing the ultra-fast motion of atoms and electrons.

24 Jul 2007

Storage of a Single Photon in a Quantum Memory

A series of publications in the journal Nature highlights the race among competing research groups toward the long-anticipated goal of quantum networking.

24 Jul 2007

Breakthrough Chip for Clearer Pictures and Less Power

The next advance in cameras is becoming a reality at the University of Rochester. Imaging chips revolutionized the photography industry, and now the chips themselves are being revolutionized.

24 Jul 2007

NIF Experiments Validate Computer Simulations on Road to Ignition

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have successfully conducted an important round of successful laser experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), validating key computer simulations and theoretical projections relevant to the plasma and X-ray environment necessary to achieve ignition.

24 Jul 2007

New Laser-Based Method for Measuring Millimeter Distances More Accurately than Ever

A new laser-based method for measuring millimeter distances more accurately than ever before - with an uncertainty of 10 picometers (trillionths of a meter) - has been developed and demonstrated by a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

24 Jul 2007

Researchers Expand the Tool Kit of Colloid Particles Making New Coloured Finishes Possible

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have used ion bombardment and gold metallisation to produce a new family of particles whose bonding behaviour can be chemically tailored. With these particles, scientists hope not only to be able to perform better research on the dynamics of solids and molecules. The discovery could also bring about, among other things, the development of new finishes which change their colour with temperature.

24 Jul 2007