US Navy details$110M laser weapon call 04 Sep 2012 Sees modular open-systems approach as best way to develop a directed-energy laser gun with a maximum 150 kW output. Maritime Laser A 100 kW laser weapon could be used on board a US ...
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Florida team sets new ultrashort pulse record 04 Sep 2012 Laser pulse lasting just 67 attoseconds improves on previous best of 80 attoseconds set by German team in 2008. Ultrafast worker:UCF's Zenghu Chang A new tool to watch quantum ...
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Building-integrated PV ready to'come of age'22 Aug 2012 Maturing technologies and partnerships between solar and construction companies will prompt 4.6GW of installations by 2017. A new market report from the analyst company Pike ...
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Survey of more than 7500 people working in photonics suggests that nearly nine in ten find their job highly satisfying. Aerospace on top again:salary by discipline A new survey has found that the vast majority of people working in the ...
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PV puts utilities and construction ‘on collision course’ 16 Aug 2012 Achieving widespread grid parity with solar electricity may set up a titanic clash between the two industry sectors. PV panel The falling cost of ...
Palomar instrument goes exoplanet hunting 18 Jul 2012 Project 1640 combines four components to combat speckle and distortion in images of distant stars. Seeing the light:Project 1640 in action A system now commissioned at Palomar ...
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192-laser shot at National Ignition Facility hits 2mm target with 1.8MJ,500TW–a new high NIF target Scientists at the National Ignition Facility(NIF),home to the world's highest-energy laser system,say that they are ...
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Japanese maker of lithography light sources says that it is first to surpass commercially significant milestone. EUV:pilot to production Gigaphoton,one of the companies that is developing light sources for the forthcoming generation ...
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New guide star laser debuts at SPIE astronomy event 26 Jun 2012 Apparatus could help observatory one day"find another Earth"–Toptica. Burning bright:ESO's portable guide star laser unit under test.A novel approach to laser guide ...
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European Extremely Large Telescope'approved'12 Jun 2012 European Southern Observatory(ESO)council votes for provisional go-ahead of project to build the world's largest telescope. A project to build what will be by far the world's ...
Optics societies press Iran to release PhD student 12 Jun 2012 Letter co-signed by presidents of SPIE,OSA,EOS and ICO urges Iranian government to overturn Omid Kokabee's ten-year jail sentence. Omid Kokabee The presidents of four ...
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More than a hundred remote sensing satellites will be built over the next decade,at an estimated value of$17 billion. Satellite view The need for more and better imaging data will be the major driver behind a"healthy"market for ...
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Thermal imaging used in tandem with other tests offers an alternative to mammography. Infrared scanning for breast cancer:now worthy of wider adoption Mammography is the commonest imaging technique applied to the detection of ...
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Spectroscopy and security could both benefit from a Georgia Tech scintillator crystal based on nanopowders. Gamma detection Detecting the tell-tale gamma radiation that might indicate the presence of nuclear devices or materials is a ...
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Results from a Dutch clinicstudy provide further evidence that the technique will be be a valuable diagnostic tool. al Photoacoustic scan A Dutch clinical trial of twelve patients examined using a photoacoustic(PA)imaging technique ...
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