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Silicon optical fiber made practical
Posted on 29-10-2008

Led by Professor John Ballato and including fiber pioneer Roger Stolen, the team of scientists was able to create this new fiber by employing the same commercial methods that are used to develop all-g...
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Feathered photonic crystal takes off
Posted on 28-10-2008

Natural photonic crystals found within peacock feathers are being used to tune the optical emission of embedded ZnO nanoparticles.Peacock feathers are a particularly striking example of Mother Nature'...
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Ophir-Spiricon Announces Next Generation Focal Spot Analyzer
Posted on 27-10-2008

Ophir-Spiricon Announces Next Generation Focal Spot Analyzer; Measures High Power YAG Laser Focus Spot Characteristics as Small as 25µmOctober 27, 2008 - Logan, UT - Ophir-Spiricon, the global l...
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Blue LED detects pollutant gas
Posted on 24-10-2008

Chinese researchers are hoping to commercialize a technique that uses a blue LED to detect nitrogen dioxide cheaply and easily.A blue LED is at the heart of a low-cost and straightforward method of me...
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Innovation enriches high-power diode laser market
Posted on 24-10-2008

The high-power diode laser market is seeing new applications emerge thanks to higher output powers and new emission wavelengths. Jörg Neukum of DILAS looks at recent progress.These are exciting t...
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Tunable microlenses shine light on medical imaging
Posted on 20-10-2008

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed tunable liquid microlenses that can quickly scan images and record video. Integrated onto fiber-optic probes, the lenses further could reduce t...
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Food chains essential for European photonics
Posted on 17-10-2008

The European photonics industry has in the past been poor at benefiting from its own inventions. So many times products that were invented or developed in Europe end up making profits or creating empl...
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Can genetic information be controlled by light?
Posted on 16-10-2008

Researchers at Kiel University have succeeded in showing that DNA strands differ in their light sensitivity depending on their base sequences. Their results are reported by Nina Schwalb and colleagues...
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Brightening the future for optical circuits
Posted on 15-10-2008

By working together to share costs and know-how, European researchers are shaking up the way research and development is carried out on optical chips.Optics has come a long way since the 1960s. Today,...
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Today: New Version Launched for Photonic-Sourcing.com
Posted on 09-10-2008

For the past month, our team of designers, programmers and testers has been working around the clock to produce a better version of Photonic-Sourcing.com, in order to serve the needs of our clients be...
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