Optical Technologies

A newly developed source emits 3 ps pulses at a repetition rate of 1 GHz with a peak power of 100 W.

Foundation honours Capasso with Future Prize for quantum cascade laser work.

Noted Russian researcher contributed to waveguides, laser techniques, neural information processing.

Including news from IMAX, Laser Light Engines, Mobius Photonics, EPIC, E Ink and more.

Agreement reached to pioneer EUV inspection tool to target mask defects for 22 nm half-pitch node and below.

New venture mLED is developing gallium nitride micro-pixellated LED (microLED) arrays for a range of applications.

Awards recognize student achievement, potential in optics and photonics.

Clean-energy research and nanotechnologies join core optics programmes at SPIE Optics and Photonics.

SPIE invites photonics innovators to vie for 2010 Prism Awards.

Nobel laureates lead array of luminaries featured at events honouring 50 years of lasers.

Pantec Biosolutions receives a CE mark in the EU for its needle-free painless laser injection system.

Featuring news from Teledyne Technologies, Optical Research Associates, Schott, Anteryon and more.

Gentec Electro-Optics hopes to boost its presence in the US with the acquisition of Spectrum Detector.

Two big names in the optics industry join forces to develop ultrafast laser systems for industrial materials processing.

The future make-up of white OLED pixels could be a four way mix of red, green, blue and light blue.

Early efforts to create an intelligent power grid have not been trouble-free in the US.

Corning says that its new green laser is the ideal light source for embedded microprojection applications.

Featuring news from Ophir-Spiricon, Ocean Optics, Cymer, Toptica, Microvision and CVI Melles Griot.

Ferenc Krausz and his partners in Austria built a laser company around ultrashort light flashes and chirped mirror technology.

The photonics industry in Europe is reporting gains in innovation and competitiveness through a strategy of future-scoping and collaboration among industry, research institutes and universities.