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Australian-Based Researchers Perform Real-Time Cell Surgery in California Via Internet

In an effort to combine sophisticated laser and Internet technologies, scientists in Australia have successfully performed laser surgery and "optical trapping" in a Southern California laboratory via the Internet.

8 Jul 2007

Researchers Slow Light

Increasing interest has focused recently on ways of drastically slowing light or, more precisely, the speed of laser data pulses - and a joint USC/Duke University team has just reported improvements in a way to do this in a flexible and controlled manner.

8 Jul 2007

Laser Bursts Create True Black Metal

"Black gold" is not just an expression anymore. Scientists at the University of Rochester have created a way to change the properties of almost any metal to render it, literally, black.

8 Jul 2007

Ultrafast Lasers Reveal Atoms Colliding

Using laser pulses that last just 70 femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second), physicists have observed in greater detail than ever before what happens when atoms collide.

8 Jul 2007

Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Laser Offers Alternative to Silicon Raman Lasers

In what promises to be an important advance, researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have developed a novel laser by bonding optical gain layers directly to a silicon laser cavity.

8 Jul 2007

New Laser-Surgery Technique for Cornea Transplants

A UC Irvine ophthalmologist and his team have invented a new laser-surgery technique to perform cornea-transplant surgery that can replace the use of traditional handheld surgical blades and potentially improve recovery time for patients.

8 Jul 2007

Extreme Ultraviolet Light Helps Create More Powerful Computer Chips

A University of Central Florida research team has made a substantial inroad toward establishing extreme ultraviolet light (EUV) as a primary power source for manufacturing the next generation of computer chips.

8 Jul 2007

UCF Optics Researchers Make Military Rescue Missions, Teamwork More Effective

Aiming to help the military better coordinate rescues of missing aid workers and other complex missions, researchers at the University of Central Florida's Institute for Simulation and Training will study how hastily assembled teams process information and solve problems.

8 Jul 2007

Scientists Perform Atomic Spectroscopy with Integrated Optics on a Chip for First Time

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have performed atomic spectroscopy with integrated optics on a chip for the first time, guiding a beam of light through a rubidium vapor cell integrated into a semiconductor chip.

8 Jul 2007

World's First Electrically Powered Hybrid Silicon Laser Built Using Standard Silicon Manufacturing Processes

Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Intel Corporation have built the world's first electrically powered Hybrid Silicon Laser using standard silicon manufacturing processes.

8 Jul 2007

Super Stable Fiber-Optic Network

A super stable fiber-optic network that can be tuned across a range of visible and near-infrared frequencies while synchronizing the oscillations of light waves from different sources has been demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

8 Jul 2007

New Form of Transistor and a New Form of Laser at Once

The transistor laser invented by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has now been found to possess fundamental non-linear characteristics that are new to a transistor and permit its use as a dual-input, dual-output, high-frequency signal processor.

8 Jul 2007

Fastest Measurements Ever of Molecular Dynamics

In the last decades there has been a revolution in measuring time-dependent molecular motion, thanks to improvements in laser technology.

8 Jul 2007

New Method for Using Laser Beams to Accelerate Ions

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno, Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Germany, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany, have developed a new method for using a laser beam to accelerate ions.

8 Jul 2007

First Directly Pumped Silicon Laser

Since the creation of the first working laser – a ruby model made in 1960 – scientists have fashioned these light sources from substances ranging from neon to sapphire.

8 Jul 2007