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Researchers in Israel Developed a Safer and Easier Method to Treat Glaucoma

Israeli researchers at a company called IOPtima claim to have developed a safer, easier method to treat glaucoma using a CO2 laser. Since CO2 lasers have the inherent property of losing effectiveness when in contact with liquid, the full penetration of the sclera by mistake is almost impossible.

7 Oct 2007

Scanning Surface Veins With Laser Can Detect Cancer Cells

Technology that can detect tumour cells by scanning surface veins with a laser, eliminating the need for drawing blood, has been developed by Purdue University researchers.

7 Oct 2007

High Power Vertical Diode Laser Stacks

DILAS, the diode laser company, announces its high power vertical diode laser stack arrays. These devices are available in wavelength ranging from 630nm to 1900nm with output power up to 100W CW per bar.

7 Oct 2007

Spire Corporation to Develop Cryogenic Red Diode Lasers Funded by the MDA

Spire Corporation today announced that it has received a two-year, $998,514 Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to develop highly reliable, high power cryogenic red diode lasers.

4 Oct 2007

Casix Doubled its Production Capacity for High Grade Crystals

Casix, a Fabrinet company and manufacturer of high quality crystal and precision optics products, announced today that it has doubled production capacity for its high grade Nd: YVO4 and YVO4 crystals. These crystals are particularly useful in laser and telecom applications as the crystals feature low lasing wavelength absorption and high conversion efficiency.

4 Oct 2007

Crystal IS Won Grant to Develop High Performance Deep UV LED

Crystal IS, Inc. of Green Island, NY has announced that it has won a $2M award from NIST's Advanced Technology Program (ATP) for the development of high performance deep ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diodes (LEDs) based on its low defect aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates. This award follows the recent successful completion of a previous ATP award to Crystal IS in 2004 for the development of 2-inch high quality AlN substrates.

4 Oct 2007

Full Car Body Inspection Using Optical 3D Inspection

Laser scanners that enable 3D inspection of car components could shave ten weeks off the time taken to roll out new automotive production lines.

4 Oct 2007

Highly Efficient QCL Could Provide Compact and Portable Source of Mid-Infrared Radiation

A highly efficient quantum cascade laser (QCL) that operates continuous wave (CW) at room temperature could provide a compact, portable and cost-efficient source of mid-infrared radiation, say researchers in the US. Their QCL emits at 4.5 microns, has a wall plug efficiency of over 9.3% and a CW output power of 675mW. Wall plug efficiencies greater than 18% are also reported for devices at a temperature of 150K, with CW output powers of more than 1W.

4 Oct 2007

Firing Femtosecond Laser at Bacteria can Reduce Number of Infectious Viruses

Bacterial viruses can be made inactivate by a low-power visible femtosecond pulse, opening up new strategies for controlling micro-organisms.

4 Oct 2007

Market Growth for Telecom and Datacom Lasers will Reach $2.9 Billion in 2012

Sales of telecom and datacom lasers will grow from around $1.0 billion this year to $2.9 billion in 2012, according to a new report just published by CIR, a market research firm based here.

3 Oct 2007