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Laser Diode Controller Now with Increased Power Specifications

AMS Technologies announces the release of VueMetrix Inc.’s new Vue-MV-21 laser diode controller. Based on the VueMetrix proven and fully integrated laser diode control platform, this new high-power, low-noise controller ...

22 Aug 2007

Protection Against Cascade Failure of Laser Diodes

AMS Technologies announces DiodeGuardTM from VueMetrix Inc., a new approach to in-series diode laser protection. For the first time, diode lasers operated in series are protected against cascade failure with DiodeGuard's innovative circuitry design, in the event that one or more diodes fail.

22 Aug 2007

World's First Mode-Locked Silicon Evanescent Laser

The research provides a way to integrate optical and electronic functions on a single chip and enables new types of integrated circuits. It introduces a more practical technology with lower cost, lower power consumption and more compact devices.

21 Aug 2007

High Power Laser with Single Mode Beam for Seeding Fiber and Solid State Lasers

AMS Technologies introduces Quintessence Photonics’ (QPC) new laser designed to deliver high power in a single mode beam for seeding fiber and solid state lasers and for use in direct applications. The seed las...

20 Aug 2007

New Ultrafast Thermal Measurement Technique

Global warming isn't the only heat scientists are feeling. Another area in which heat flow is becoming crucial is the field of molecular electronics, where long-chain molecules attached to tiny electrodes are used to transport and switch electrons.

9 Aug 2007

Biological Imaging with Fourth-Generation Light Sources

Most people think of Sir Isaac Newton as the father of gravity.
But for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist Henry Chapman and his colleagues, Newton's 'dusty mirror' experiment served as a launching pad for them to keenly watch the X-ray induced explosion of microscopic objects.

9 Aug 2007