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Canada opens attosecond research lab
Posted on 30-11-2009

November 30, 2009-- A new C$2.7-million state-of-the-art laboratory in Ottawa will be home to Canada's fastest X-ray laser. The Joint Laboratory for Attosecond Science (JASLab) will be led by Dr. Paul...
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Graphene layers go luminescent
Posted on 30-11-2009

Researchers have made single layers of graphene luminescent for the first time by simply exposing them to a plasma of oxygen. The resulting material could find applications in optoelectronics and ligh...
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Scientists demonstrate multibeam, multi-functional lasers
Posted on 30-11-2009

An international team of applied scientists from Harvard, Hamamatsu Photonics, and ETH Zürich have demonstrated compact, multibeam, and multi-wavelength lasers emitting in the invisible part of t...
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Nanotube LEDs make progress
Posted on 24-11-2009

Researchers at IBM have succeeded in controlling the light emitted from carbon nanotubes with unprecedented precision. The result means that it could now be possible to make narrow-band nanotube light...
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Ultra-Powerful Laser Reproduces How Star's Jets Travel through Interstellar Space
Posted on 20-11-2009

(PhysOrg.com) -- A multi-trillion-watt laser at the University of Rochester has simulated a stellar jet -- an outpouring of matter from a fledgling star -- with unprecedented realism. ...
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Joined-up thinking on fibre lasers
Posted on 13-11-2009

A €16m R&D initiative to push "the limits of advanced materials processing applications" with a new generation of fibre lasers has been launched under the auspices of the European C...
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New nano color sorters from Molecular Foundry
Posted on 12-11-2009

Berkeley Lab researchers have engineered a new class of bowtie-shaped devices that capture, filter and steer light at the nanoscale. These "nano-colorsorter" devices act as antennae to focus...
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Laser creates record-breaking protons
Posted on 11-11-2009

High-energy protons could yield compact source for cancer therapy.An international group of physicists working at the Los Alamos laboratory in the US has used a laser to generate 67.5 MeV protons &nda...
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Metrology Helps High Precision Optics Manufacturers to Reduce Waste
Posted on 10-11-2009

Drastic manufacturing yield improvements are being gained by manufacturers of high precision optics. Utilising specialised metrology to characterise the surface form of high numerical aperture (steep-...
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Japan eyes solar station in space as new energy source
Posted on 08-11-2009

It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan's space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves.The government h...
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Solar power generation around the clock
Posted on 05-11-2009

A Californian company, SolarReserve, is developing a solar power system that can store seven hours' worth of solar energy by focusing mirrors onto millions of gallons of molten salt, allowing the plan...
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Lasers put a shine on metals
Posted on 04-11-2009

Polishing metal surfaces is a demanding but monotonous task, and it is difficult to find qualified young specialists. Polishing machines do not represent an adequate alternative because they cannot ge...
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Laser etching safe alternative for labeling grapefruit
Posted on 03-11-2009

Laser labeling of fruit and vegetables is a new, patented technology in which a low-energy carbon dioxide laser beam is used to label, or "etch" information on produce, thereby eliminating t...
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