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Rice University Nanophotonics Pioneer Wins High-Profile National Security Award

Rice University nanophotonics pioneer Naomi Halas has been named a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow (NSSEFF) by the Department of Defense. Halas is one of just six fellows chosen from more than 650 nominees this year for the prestigious program.

25 Nov 2008

Something Vital is Missing in the Far Distant Reaches of the Universe

Something vital is missing in the far distant reaches of the Universe: hydrogen - the raw material for stars, planets and possible life. The discovery of its apparent absence from distant galaxies by a team of Australian astronomers is puzzling because hydrogen gas is the most common constituent of normal matter in the Universe.

24 Nov 2008

First Observation of Two Resonant Dispersive Waves on Both Sides of the Emitting Soliton

A research team led by Fetah Benabid, University of Bath, has observed for the first time the simultaneous emission of two resonant dispersive waves by optical solitons (waves that maintain their shape while traveling at constant speeds). By designing a special fiber with an extremely small waveguiding feature located in the photonic crystal fiber cladding, the researchers were able to bring the theoretical prediction into the experimental demonstration, creating waves on both sides of the pump. This research appears in the current issue of the Optical Society's Optics Letters.

20 Nov 2008

PennWell Launches Photovoltaics World Magazine

PennWell Corporation, a diversified global media and information company, announced today that it will launch Photovoltaics World magazine to address the rapidly growing global photovoltaic solar cell manufacturing industry.

20 Nov 2008

Avo Photonics Selected to Manufacture Luna Technologies' PHOENIX 1000 Tunable Laser

Avo Photonics, specialists in optical packaging, and Luna Technologies, a division of Luna Innovations are pleased to announce that Avo Photonics was selected as the manufacturing facility for the PHOENIX(TM) 1000 tunable laser.

19 Nov 2008

Coherent's New CUBE Diode Laser Delivers 100 mW of CW Output at 660 nm

The new CUBE(TM) 660-100 laser from Coherent, Inc., delivers 100 mW of CW output at 660 nm, making it the highest output power red diode laser module available from the company to date.

19 Nov 2008

Company Launches Next-Generation Ultrafast Laser Platform and Secures $20 Million of New Funding

Raydiance, the world's first practical source of ultrafast light, announced today that it has secured $20 million in new funding that will allow the Company to scale its infrastructure, further evolve its technology and enhance its ability to address larger commercial markets.

19 Nov 2008

Multiple HD Videos May Soon Stream Through Homes and Offices via New Hybrid Optical/Ultra-Wideband-Radio Systems

Multiple high-definition videos and other data-rich services may soon stream through homes, offices, ships and planes via new hybrid optical/ultra-wideband-radio systems developed by European researchers.

18 Nov 2008

Light Transduction Inside Living Sponges

Fibre optics as light conductors are obviously not just a recent invention. Sponges (Porifera), the phylogenetically oldest, multicellular organisms (Metazoa) are able to transduce light inside their bodies by employing amorphous, siliceous structures. Already more than ten years ago, the finding of photosynthetically actice organisms inside sponges raised the question, how they could survive there in an otherwise presumably dark space.

18 Nov 2008

High Resolution and Flexibility for Microscopic Examinations of Fast, Near-Membrane Processes

Carl Zeiss infuses its imaging system for Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence microscopy with an entirely new level of quality. The TIRF system is suitable for reproducible microscopic examinations of near-cell membrane dynamic processes and interactions of single molecules in cell-free systems with high time resolution.

17 Nov 2008