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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

Adaptive Optics Help Sharpen Night Sky

An artificial, laser-fed star now shines regularly over the sky of Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, one of the world's most advanced large ground-based telescopes.

5 Jul 2007

New Wave of Fiber Research

Cotton may be getting even more breathable. A new wave of fiber research debuts with an international science and technology conference.

5 Jul 2007

Frictionless Optics for ESA's Darwin Mission

The multi-satellite Darwin mission will use optical interferometry in which at least three separate orbiting telescopes jointly operate as an equivalent single telescope with a much larger effective aperture, thus achieving the required resolution.

5 Jul 2007

Electrons Observed in Tunnelling Process

We have to climb a mountain in order to conquer it. In quantum physics there is a different way - objects can reach the opposite side of a hill simply by tunnelling through it, instead of laboriously climbing over it.

5 Jul 2007

Dr. Peli of Schepens Eye Research Institute Elected SPIE Fellow

The International Society for Optical Engineering will honor 56 new Fellows of the Society this year.

5 Jul 2007

New Type of Diode Laser

A new type of diode laser, called the quantum cascade laser (QCL), may eventually change this situation. Diode lasers are inherently compact and suitable for mass-production, which has led to their widespread and low-cost use in everyday products, including CD and DVD players.

5 Jul 2007

Funding Decisions for 1st Round of Excellence Initiative Made

Funding decisions for the first round of the Excellence Initiative have been made. After a total of 88 proposals for the three funding lines were evaluated and discussed by international review panels and the Joint Co...

5 Jul 2007

New Compact, Inexpensive Method for Stabilizing Lasers

A compact, inexpensive method for stabilizing lasers that uses a new design to reduce sensitivity to vibration and gravity 100 times better than similar approaches has been demonstrated by scientists at JILA.

5 Jul 2007

Researchers Punch Through Clouds to Improve Laser Communications

Just as clouds block the sun, they interfere with laser communications systems, but Penn State researchers are using a combination of computational methods to find the silver lining and punch through the clouds.

5 Jul 2007

Near-Infrared Optics and MRI Combined to Diagnose Breast Cancer

By combining two techniques, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and near-infrared optics, researchers at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School may have devised a new, potentially more accurate method for diagnosin...

5 Jul 2007

New Laser-Silicon Hybrid Computer Chip

Researchers have created a new laser-silicon hybrid computer chip that can produce laser beams that will make it possible to use laser light rather than wires to send data between chips, removing the most significant bottleneck in computer design.

5 Jul 2007

Lasers and Fiber-Optics to Improve Atomic Clocks

Time and frequency information can be transferred between laboratories or to other users in several ways, often using the Global Positioning System (GPS). But today's best atomic clocks are so accurate—neith...

5 Jul 2007

ASU Tackles Solar Energy

ASU scientists Rudy Diaz and Stuart Lindsay will lead a research group on a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation for an innovative project designed to break through the current technological hurdles of solar energy.

5 Jul 2007