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Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley	Pure Silicon Laser Debuts Researchers have made a prototype laser from silicon. The laser is tunable, meaning it can lase in a range of wavelengths, or colors, and it works at room temperature.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004	Fiber lasers emerge as strong competitor for future laser weapons They may be applied to jet fighters, land vehicles, and perhaps even man-portable systems. And they even have the potential to edge-out other solid-state laser approaches such as slab lasers and free-electron lasers.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005	Lasers Built Into Fiber-Optics Researchers have crossed a gas-filled fiber optic laser with ordinary fiber optics to make a Raman laser and a frequency stabilizer -- devices that provide precise control of laser beams.
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Miles et al.	Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Holonyak & Feng	The Transistor Laser Ultrafast transistors that output optical and electrical signals open a new computing frontier.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Eric Smalley	Laser made from single atom The simplest possible laser -- a single atom -- has been on the drawing board for decades. Researchers have finally achieved the extremely precise control needed to make a laser from just one atom. The first demonstration of a single-atom laser showed that it's a different animal -- it produces quantum light.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John McHale	Chasing the goal of an efficient battlefield laser U.S. DoD researchers aim to develop small lasers for use in tactical air missions. The engineering challenge has been taken up by contractors including Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin.
Technology Research News October 8, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Crystal slows and speeds light Playing tricks with light -- speeding, slowing and storing it -- is becoming a popular pastime among physicists. The effects could eventually be used to improve communications and data storage and help bring about quantum computing and quantum communications.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Paniccia & Koehl	The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Salvatore Coffa	Light From Silicon For decades, silicon was a semiconducting dim bulb, but now we can make it into LEDs that match the best made from more exotic materials
Technology Research News March 9, 2005	Silicon Chip Laser Goes Continuous Useful lasers made from silicon would make it possible to move data between and within computer chips using light rather than electricity. This would make for faster chips that could be more tightly integrated with optical communications equipment.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003	Teamed lasers make smaller spots Researchers from Boston University have tapped the properties of polarization in order to focus a laser beam more tightly in space. The method could be used to scan objects in finer detail and to make finer features in processes like rapid prototyping and photolithography.
Chemistry World October 7, 2010 Simon Hadlington	New light shed on 'photothermal' cell death Photothermal therapy - where tiny particles of a metal are introduced into a cell and heated by laser light to kill the cell - might not work in the way people think, researchers in the UK have discovered.
IEEE Spectrum May 2010 Neil Savage	The Laser at 50 It's the golden anniversary of this fundamental technology
Chemistry World December 6, 2006 Lionel Milgrom	Surf's up for Unstable Electron Beams Controlling short high-energy bursts of plasma electrons is difficult. But now physicists in France have managed it, using a laser to inject electrons into the wake of a plasma wave created from a jet of helium gas.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John Keller	Laser pointer or terrorist threat? Several recent incidents in which aircraft pilots claim to have been temporarily blinded by laser beams are igniting debate over whether legally obtained laser pointers in the wrong hands could be considered terrorist weapons.
National Defense August 2010 Grace V. Jean	Navy Aiming for Laser Weapons at Sea The Navy expects to incorporate lasers onto most ship classes in its surface fleet, including amphibious ships, cruisers and destroyers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 Adrian Carter	New technology advances applications for high-power fiber lasers Since introduced by Nufern as a standard product in late 2002, LMA fibers have enabled a power-scaling revolution, and have produced near-diffraction-limited beam quality at powers approaching 1 kW and slope efficiencies of around 75 percent.
Chemistry World February 7, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Crystal Shows Colossal Expansion A super-stretchy crystal could help to develop improved coatings for satellites facing the extreme temperature variations of space, according to UK scientists.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005	Optoelectronics Briefs Breakthrough in solid-state laser technology... Fiber-optic field-simulation test instrument... TTL modulation added to photon devices... New high-power optical fiber... Light-sensitive camera... High-power multimode diode bar... Laser Diode earns ISO 9001:2000 certification...
National Defense December 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Lockheed Invests in Laser Technology Lockheed Martin is investing heavily in laser technology and new ways to manufacture such systems, as the company begins production of 60-kilowatt lasers for the U.S. Army.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 John Keller	Adaptive Optics Blends the Best of Electronic and Optoelectronic Technologies This approach uses deformable mirrors, MEMS, or liquid-crystal technologies to adjust for optical distortion in the atmosphere, which yields a new level of focus and resolution to high-energy lasers, deep-space exploration, and perhaps even eye surgery.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 John McHale	Future weapons: Solid-state lasers Industry and military scientists are moving forward in the quest to develop solid-state lasers for use as weapons by warfighters of the future.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004	Test Moves Missile-Defense Laser Program Closer to Deployment The future U.S. Airborne Laser system took another step forward last month when modules of the system's megawatt-class chemical oxygen-iodine laser were test fired for the first time while linked together as one unit.
AboutSafety May 8, 2001	Laser Safety Guidelines for understanding the dangers of lasers and the importance of working with them safely...
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Jean Kumagai	Winner: Quantum Leap Quantum-dot lasers from Japan's QD Laser will make high-speed "fiber to the home" networks simpler, cheaper, and more power-efficient
Chemistry World December 2, 2014 Andrea Sella	Maiman's laser Theodore Maiman (1927 -- 2007) was an American engineer who invented the first laser
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 Eric Smalley	Wide laser makes simple tweezers Much of medical diagnostics and biomedical research involves trapping, manipulating and sorting individual cells and like-sized bits of matter. A recently demonstrated way of manipulating cells promises to be less expensive than laser tweezers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Miniature 1064-Nanometer Fiber Lasers MPB Communications is releasing a series of miniature ytterbium fiber lasers called the YFL- series. The laser is for airborne and mobile deployments. Applications include target designation, spectroscopy, remote sensing, and second harmonic generation.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003	Artificial DNA stacks metal atoms In recent years, researchers have replaced some of DNA's natural bases with those that attach to metal atoms in order to coax DNA to organize metal ions into tiny structures. Researchers in Japan have tapped the method to form stacks of single metal ions.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 John Keller	Air Force Seeks to Develop Phased-Array Lasers for Weapons and Communications U.S. military researchers are looking into ways of steering laser beams from flat arrays of optical emitters, in much the same way that phased-array radar systems steer radar beams without the need of a rotating platform.
Chemistry World November 9, 2011 Laura Howes	Zap and the Aromaticity is Gone German chemists have shown that it's possible to turn off aromaticity with a blast from a laser beam.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006	Northrop Grumman Solid-State Laser Intended for Several Kinds of Military Missions Scientists at the Northrop Grumman Space Technology segment are developing a high-energy, solid-state laser called Vesta that company officials claim is powerful enough to perform many basic military missions.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006	Raytheon researchers eye boosting laser power to weapons-grade levels High-power laser systems made from low-power modules would leapfrog bottlenecks to create ever-higher-power monolithic laser systems.
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Willie D. Jones	Engineers Work on Laser-Based Brain-Machine Interface for Prosthetic Arm Laser stimulation of nerves may light the way to better nervous-system feedback for prosthetics
The Motley Fool October 11, 2005 Dan Bloom	Intel's Optical Breakthrough The chipmaker may open new tech frontiers by teaching silicon and light to cooperate.
National Defense October 2009 Grace V. Jean	The Promise of the World's Smallest Lasers Recent advances in power efficiency, design and high temperature functionality have pushed ultra-thin semiconductor lasers closer to real-world utility.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004	Photonic Crystal Lasers Juiced Researchers have made a photonic crystal laser that is driven by electric current. The device could eventually be used as a source of single photons for quantum cryptography and communications devices.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	Briefs 10 million cycles is probable for new optical switch... Newport announces Oriel Light Resource Catalog... Coherent expands line of high-power laser diodes... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 John Keller	Editor's Notebook: Darpa Details Requirements for High-Energy Diode-Laser Initiative The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving ahead with a program to develop a 100-kilowatt weapons-grade diode laser capable of destroying military targets.
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Chemistry World February 11, 2011 David Barden	Waking up to new possibilities in imaging UK researchers have used a cage-like molecule to smuggle metal ions into cells, which could improve medical imaging.
CIO May 15, 2003 John Edwards	Looking-Glass Fiber Don't look now, but a new low-loss optical fiber -- featuring a mirrored core -- can conduct an intense stream of laser light that would melt an ordinary fiber.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 Jim Reeves	Industry View: Have bandwidth, will travel Technological advancements such as 'double conjugated adaptive optics' are leading to man-portable, far-reaching, low-power laser communication systems that are perfectly suited to the military's security-driven battlefield communication requirements.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John Keller	Fiber Laser Sales to Grow 26 Percent Annually Through 2011 Many key questions remain, such as how fast and how much market share can kilowatt fiber lasers gain from carbon dioxide lasers in sheet metal cutting? And, how much vertical integration is necessary to succeed in the fiber laser market?
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Samuel K. Moore	Laser on Silicon Scientists have managed to combine an indium-phosphide light emitter and a silicon chip to produce a hybrid laser that, years from now, could lead to cheap terabit-per-second connections within and around computers.
Industrial Physicist Feb/Mar 2004 Eric J. Lerner	Briefs Opening the x-ray water window... Zero thermal expansion... Magnetoresistor computing... A pressure-driven battery
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Joseph Calamia	Engineers Unveil Particle Accelerator on a Chip Zipping ions down a MEMS racetrack could lead to portable particle beams
PC Magazine October 11, 2006	Bits & Bites v25n19 Intel and researchers have developed a silicon chip that can produce laser beams.
Technology Research News July 30, 2003	Laser bursts pierce fog Researchers in France have shown that it is possible to fire laser beams through otherwise impenetrable clouds, haze and fog. This means it could be possible to transmit data through these opaque media and remotely sense objects or chemicals within clouds, haze or fog.