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German Physicists Using Intense Lasers to Generate Highly Energetic Carbon Beams

Oncologists have a dream: they want to use highly energetic ion beams in good quality and accurately defined dose for a pin-sharp and cost-effective radiation treatment of tumors. Modern techniques based on intense laser...

16 Dec 2009

Leading Developer and Manufacturer of Photonic Integrated Circuit Named To Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific

NeoPhotonics (China) Co., Ltd., a leading developer and vertically integrated manufacturer of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) based components, modules and subsystems for use in telecommunications networks, has been na...

15 Dec 2009

NCI Selects Zecotek Photonics Tunable Green Fiber Laser for Research in Flow Cytometry

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that the National Cancer Institute, a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), has selected its proprietary Tunable Green Fiber Laser (TGFL) for research in flow cytometry.

From Zecotek Photonics 15 Dec 2009

Pushing Laser Technology to Completely New Territories

A 270km optical fiber has been transformed into the world's longest laser, a feat its inventors believe will lead to a radical new outlook on information transmission and secure communications.

15 Dec 2009

New Behaviours Could Lead to Faster Optical Information Processing and Cooler Computers

University of Toronto quantum optics researchers Sajeev John and Xun Ma have discovered new behaviours of light within photonic crystals that could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers that...

14 Dec 2009

Physicists Deliver Overwhelming Proof for A Once-Scoffed-At Theory

Using atoms at temperatures colder than deep space, Rice University physicists have delivered overwhelming proof for a once-scoffed-at theory that's become a hotbed for research some 40 years after it first appeared....

11 Dec 2009

New Way to Control Casimir Force

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are developing a way to control the Casimir force, a quantum mechanical force which attracts objects when they are only a hundred nanometers apart.

From Argonne National Laboratory 10 Dec 2009

Mobius Photonics Demonstrates Fiber Laser Tailored for Precision Materials Processing

Mobius Photonics, an innovative producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources (IR, green, and UV laser), has demonstrated a fiber laser tailored for precision materials processing. The Mobius Photonics laser produces high...

8 Dec 2009

Laser Technique Used to Change Colors of Metals Could Have Important Implications for Medicine

University of Rochester optics professor Chunlei Guo made headlines in the past couple of years when he changed the color of everyday metals by scouring their surfaces with precise, high-intensity laser bursts. Sudde...

8 Dec 2009

Result an Important Step Toward Airport Scanners that Can Identify Explosives

MIT researchers have developed a new way to tune the frequency of lasers that operate in the terahertz spectrum. The result is an important step toward airport scanners that could tell whether a vial in a closed suitcase contains aspirin, methamphetamines or an explosive.

7 Dec 2009

Nanooptics and Nanophotonics News

German Physicists Using Intense Lasers to Generate Highly Energetic Carbon Beams

Leading Developer and Manufacturer of Photonic Integrated Circuit Named To Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific

NCI Selects Zecotek Photonics Tunable Green Fiber Laser for Research in Flow Cytometry

Pushing Laser Technology to Completely New Territories

New Behaviours Could Lead to Faster Optical Information Processing and Cooler Computers

Physicists Deliver Overwhelming Proof for A Once-Scoffed-At Theory

New Way to Control Casimir Force

Mobius Photonics Demonstrates Fiber Laser Tailored for Precision Materials Processing

Laser Technique Used to Change Colors of Metals Could Have Important Implications for Medicine

Result an Important Step Toward Airport Scanners that Can Identify Explosives

Combining Nanofluids and Turbulators for Sustainable Energy

Enhancing Material Properties through Nanotube Encapsulation

Sustainable Carbon Nanomaterial Gii Set to Transform Energy Storage in Internet of Things Devices

Brain-Inspired Nano-Tech Promises New Era for Electronics

Breakthrough in 2D Material Growth Opens Doors to Cleaner Energy and Next-Generation Technology

Electrospinning and the Future of Nanotechnology

How Electrospinning is Shaping the Future of Nanotechnology

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

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