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New Material Reflects Virtually No Light

A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created the world's first material that reflects virtually no light.

8 Jul 2007

Optical Vortex Coronagraph

A new optical device might allow astronomers to view extrasolar planets directly without the annoying glare of the parent star.

8 Jul 2007

Breakthroughs in Optics, Photonics

Researchers from around the world will present new breakthroughs in optics, photonics and their applications at the 2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS) from May 6-11 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Md.

8 Jul 2007

Laser Light Used to Strip Hydrogen Atoms from Silicon Surfaces

A team of researchers have achieved a long-sought scientific goal: using laser light to break specific molecular bonds.

8 Jul 2007

MIT Scientists Convert Light into Electricity More Efficiently than Ever Before

MIT researchers are trying to unleash the promise of an old idea by converting light into electricity more efficiently than ever before.

8 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

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

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