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  • Optical Vortex Coronagraph
    News - 8 Jul 2007
    A new optical device might allow astronomers to view extrasolar planets directly without the annoying glare of the parent star. It would do this by "nulling" out the light of the parent...
  • Optical On-Off Switch to Replace Electrical Wiring on Airplanes
    News - 8 Jul 2007
    In an effort to provide safer and more reliable components for aircraft, researchers have invented an optical on-off switch that can replace electrical wiring on airplanes with fiber optics for...
  • New Feat of Optical Technology for Distortion-Free Wide-Angle Images
    News - 8 Jul 2007
    South Korean researchers have designed and built an inexpensive optical lens that collects light from a large area and produces a virtually distortion-free wide-angle image. Standing in contrast to...
  • New Optics Technology for Extremely Large Telescopes
    News - 8 Jul 2007
    On the evening of 25 March 2007, the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) achieved First Light at the Visitor Focus of Melipal, the third Unit Telescope of the Very Large Telescope...
  • MIT Scientists Develop Optical System Made of Mesh-Like Webs of Light-Detecting Fibers
    News - 8 Jul 2007
    In a radical departure from conventional lens-based optics, MIT scientists have developed a sophisticated optical system made of mesh-like webs of light-detecting fibers. The fiber constructs,...
  • Artificial Star
    News - 5 Jul 2007
    On 28 January 2006, at 23:07 local time, a laser beam of several watts was launched from Yepun, the fourth 8.2m Unit Telescope of the Very Large Telescope, producing an artificial star, 90 km up in...
  • Lasers Used to Cool and Trap Erbium Atoms
    News - 5 Jul 2007
    Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used lasers to cool and trap erbium atoms, a "rare earth" heavy metal with unusual optical, electronic and...
  • New Photonic Device for Greater Optical Data Storage
    News - 5 Jul 2007
    Engineers and applied scientists from Harvard University have demonstrated a new photonic device with a wide range of potential commercial applications, including dramatically higher capacity for...
  • ESA's GIOVE-A Laser Ranging Campaign Successful
    News - 5 Jul 2007
    Fourteen laser ranging stations participated in a campaign to track ESA's GIOVE-A satellite during the spring and summer of 2006, providing invaluable data for the characterisation of the...
  • Adaptive Optics Help Sharpen Night Sky
    News - 5 Jul 2007
    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. This system...

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