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Four PTB Primary Atomic Clocks Will Contribute to UTC

The world's best caesium atomic clocks control Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), an atomic time scale on which the time zones used in everyday life are based. But also in navigation (GPS), astronomy, telecommunicatio...

21 Dec 2009

Energetiq Technology Introduces Three New Product in LDLS Family

Energetiq Technology, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of specialized short-wavelength light products for use in advanced technology applications, will introduce three more light sources in its Laser-Driven Light Source (LDLS) product family at SPIE Photonics West and BiOS, January 23-28, 2010 in San Francisco.

From Energetiq Technology 18 Dec 2009

Terahertz Research Promises New Applications in Solid State Physics and Medical Imaging

Terahertz research is in the focus the "German-Russian Centre for terahertz research and technology, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that has been recently established at the p...

18 Dec 2009

Showa Denko Licenses Universal Display's UniversalPHOLED Technology

Showa Denko K.K. (TSE: 4004), one of Japan's leading producers of chemicals and industrial materials with individualized products for the sound growth of international society, and Universal Display Corporation (NASD...

18 Dec 2009

Physicist Awarded Top National Science Foundation Grant for Early Stage Research

A Virginia Tech physicist is one of three faculty members from the College of Science who have been awarded prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grants by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

16 Dec 2009

Two Ames Physicists Named Fellows of the American Physical Society

Two physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society. Physicist Rana Biswas was named an APS Fellow for his “theoretical contributions to...

16 Dec 2009

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