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Breakthrough Greatly Enhance Applications Ranging from Security Screening to Chemical Sensing

Engineers and applied physicists from Harvard University have demonstrated the first room-temperature electrically-pumped semiconductor source of coherent Terahertz (THz) radiation, also known as T-rays.

19 May 2008

Innovation Significantly Reduces Cost of Concentrator Photovoltaic Cells

IBM today announced a research breakthrough in photovoltaics technology that could significantly reduce the cost of harnessing the Sun's power for electricity.

19 May 2008

Generation of Laser Light Without Needing Large Energy Input

Kishor Kapale, an assistant professor of physics at Western Illinois University, had his research, "Lasing Without Inversion: Counterintuitive Population Dynamics in the Transient Regime," published in the prestigious Physical Review Letters (PRL) vol. 100, article 173601 (April 29, 2008).

17 May 2008

Higher Temperatures Yield Tunable, Supersensitive Hyper-CEST MRI

Standard magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, is a superb diagnostic tool but one that suffers from low sensitivity, requiring patients to remain motionless for long periods of time inside noisy, claustrophobic machines.

8 May 2008

Indium Nitride-Based Quantum-Dot Solar Cells Potentially Provide High Efficiency

Magnolia Optical Technologies, Inc. announced today that it is part of the Kopin Corporation team that has been selected for the award of a solar cell development contract from NASA. The Phase II STTR program will develop indium nitride (InN)-based quantum dot solar cell technology.

8 May 2008

Ultrafast Laser Offers High Speed, Short Pulses and High Average Power

Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an ultrafast laser that offers a record combination of high speed, short pulses and high average power.

5 May 2008

Product Based on Hazard-Detection Technology Developed for U.S. Army

JMAR Technologies, Inc. a leading developer of advanced laser, photonics and detection products, today announced that it will unveil the first commercial prototype of its double-pulse laser system at next week's Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) in San Jose, California.

2 May 2008

Indium Nitride-Based Quantum-Dot Solar Cells Potentially Provide High Efficiency and Resistance to Extreme Conditions

Kopin Corp., the world's leading provider of heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) wafers for cellular phones and wireless local area networks, today announced that it has been selected for the award of a $600,000 solar cell development contract from NASA.

1 May 2008

Zecotek to Exhibit at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Zecotek Photonics Inc. today announced it will be exhibiting select imaging and laser products during the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, May 6-9, 2008 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California.

29 Apr 2008

Unique Collaborative Effort to Develop a New Generation of High-Brightness Lasers

Scientists and engineers across Europe have joined forces in a unique collaborative effort to develop a new generation of high-brightness lasers that will transform the fields of healthcare, communications and entertainment.

22 Apr 2008