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:: News From Laser Focus World 
Hello from Photonics WestThis week, the entire editorial staff of Laser Focus World is in San Jose, CA for the SPIE Photonics West conference, looking for the newest technological innovations in lasers, optics, imaging, fiber optics, detectors, and instrumentation to fill the upcoming pages of our magazine, digital newsletters, and Web site. We are also excited to welcome a new bi-monthly magazine, monthly e-Newsletter, and Web site called BioOptics World to the PennWell family of publications. BioOptics World focuses on the design, development, and utilization of optical technologies for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and disease processes. “Our goal for BioOptics World is not just to explain how the technology works and how it is being used, but to provide critical information about the potential for these technologies and applications to change the future of medicine,” said Kathy Kincade, Editor in Chief. “This field no longer belongs just to the researchers but to the entrepreneurs as well. It is an emerging industry, and BioOptics World intends to be the voice of that industry." See it for yourself at www.bioopticsworld.com. And if you’re in San Jose this week, please join us in the exhibit hall, booth #1601, and help us usher in another exciting year for the world of photonics! Steve Anderson Associate Publisher/Editor in Chief, Laser Focus World http://www.laserfocusworld.com |
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INDUSTRY NEWS :: OCT market to top $800 million by 2012 Nashua, NH--Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a unique imaging modality that is fast becoming the most successful optics technology to date in the field of disease diagnostics. According to "Optical Coherence Tomography -- Technology, Markets, and Applications: 2008-2012," a new market research report from the publishers of BioOptics World, OCT revenues will top $800 million by 2012. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: Gooch & Housego consolidates five photonics companies into one Ilminster, UK--Gooch & Housego has launched a new company that brings together five leading players in the photonics industry under the Gooch & Housego brand name. The launch will see Gooch & Housego UK, Cleveland Crystals, NEOS Technologies, Landwehr Electronic and SIFAM Fibre Optics joined as one company. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: QPC Lasers receives $1.3 million in orders for cancer and medical therapeutic applications Sylmar, CA--QPC Lasers has received $1.3 million in new orders of its BrightLase Ultra Lasers for use in medical applications. According to the company, these two new orders come less than a month after the launch of the BrightLase Ultra product line, and will be used in surgical and therapeutic applications. Shipments for the two orders commenced last month and are scheduled to be completed by the end of 2008. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: LightPath announces $10 million joint venture with Chinese partner Orlando, FL--Precision optics maker LightPath Technologies has entered into a joint venture agreement with CDGM Glass Company (CDGM); LightPath and CDGM will each own a 50% interest in the joint venture which will be organized under the name "LightPath CDGM Chengdu Optical Co., Ltd.", located in Chengdu, China. CDGM is China's largest optical glass manufacturer producing preforms for optical companies to convert into optical lenses. :: Click Here for Full Story :: TECHNOLOGY NEWS :: Durham University leads UK research into cheaper solar energy Durham, England--A national team of scientists led by experts at Durham University are embarking on one of the UK's largest ever research projects into photovoltaic (PV) solar energy. The £6.3million (US$12.4 million) PV-21 program will focus on making thin-film light absorbing cells for solar panels from sustainable and affordable materials. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: Hubble resolves "blue blobs" into star-forming regions (VIDEO) Austin, TX--Finding blue blobs in space sounds like an encounter with an alien out of a science fiction movie. But the Hubble Space Telescope's powerful vision has resolved strange objects nicknamed "blobs" and found them to be brilliant blue clusters of stars born in the swirls and eddies of a galactic smashup 200 million years ago. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: Switzerland's Paul Scherrer Institute selects Zecotek photodiodes for PET medical imaging Vancouver, BC, Canada--Zecotek Photonics announced that the Swiss-based Paul Scherrer Institute selected Zecotek's proprietary micro-pixel avalanche photodiodes (MAPDs) for trials in its next-generation positron emission tomography (PET) medical imaging program. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: New camera on Subaru Telescope may directly observe exoplanets Hilo, HI--The Subaru Telescope, located on the summit of Mauna Kea, is dedicated to exploring the cosmos, gaining a deeper and more thorough understanding of everything that surrounds us. With an 8.2-meter mirror and a suite of sophisticated instruments, astronomers at the Subaru Telescope explore nearby stars looking for planetary systems. A giant step towards this goal was made recently with the "first-light" inauguration of a new state-of-the-art camera. :: Click Here for Full Story :: NEW PRODUCTS 
:: Spectral measurementThe LX SPIDER is a compact instrument for spectral and temporal characterization of femtosecond laser pulses. It uses a single crystal to up-convert two test pulses and introduce spectral shear without an additional chirped pulses. It measures amplitude and phase with the Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric-field Reconstruction algorithm. APE Angewandte Physik und Elektronik, Berlin, Germany :: Click Here for Full Story :: 
:: Fiber laser moduleThe aeroLASE-350 is a 350 W laser module with pump interface and delivery cable. It interfaces to many commercially available pump diodes. It has 10,000 hours lifetime and better than 60% efficiency, using a monolithic fiber-laser cavity with photonic-crystal fiber. Crystal Fibre, Birkerod, Denmark :: Click Here for Full Story :: 
:: Reinforced epoxyUV22 UV-curable epoxy is a one-compound epoxy reinforced with 35% nanosilica particles. It has an operating temperature range of –50°C to 150°C. Post-curing with heat of 195°F to 257°F for 30 min gives it a glass transition temperature of 275°F. It has a Shore D hardness better than 80 and tensile strength of more than 4600 psi, with a refractive index of 1.52. Master Bond, Hackensack, NJ :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: More new products ... ... from the pages of Laser Focus World :: Click Here for Full Story ::
FOCUS ON: SPECIALTY FIBERS :: Specialty fibers solve tough spectroscopy problems When materials can’t be placed in a sample chamber, specialty fibers that move light at a wide range of wavelengths can be used to transmit light from the sample to the spectrometer. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: Specialty fibers shine as high-power, high-beam-quality fiber sources Fiber lasers have many advantages over solid-state and semiconductor lasers, including good thermal management, compact volume, high output power, high beam quality, and low noise floor. Much effort has gone into the development of specialty fibers for high-beam-quality, high-power fiber sources. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: Optical tests rise to the challenge of specialty fibers Improved instrumentation helps manufacturers meet production goals for specialty fibers, including graded-index plastic optical fiber, large-core plastic-clad silica fiber, and polarization-maintaining fibers. :: Click Here for Full Story :: :: WEBCAST: Specialty fibers This webcast, which features presentations by Polymicro and CeramOptec, focuses specifically on the engineering and production of specialty fibers, highlights their use in the medical arena, and explores some of the factors that must be considered when selecting a fiber, such as custom fiber materials, geometries, core/clad ratios, and numerical apertures. :: Click Here for Full Story :: |
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