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Laser Technology News 2006 p1:

• Optical link established between an aircraft and an orbiting satellite
  December 27, 2006, Paris, France--Artemis, the European Space Agency Advanced Relay and Technology Mission Satellite, successfully relayed optical laser links from an aircraft earlier this month. These airborne laser links, established over a distance of 40,000 km during two flights at altitudes of 6,000 and 10,000 meters, represent a world first.
• Universal Display and Nippon Steel boost green OLED performance
  December 21, 2006, Tokyo, Japan and Ewing NJ--Nippon Steel Chemical Company (NSCC) and Universal Display today announced significant enhancement in the performance of green phosphorescent OLEDs resulting from their ongoing technical collaboration.
• 42-meter telescope will probe the Universe
  December 19, 2006, Garching, Germany--The European Southern Observatory (ESO) will proceed with detailed studies for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which if built will be by far the largest telescope ever constructed. With a 42 m aperture, the E-ELT will collect many times more light than the largest existing telescopes, such as the 10 m Keck telescopes (Mauna Kea, HI) or the ESO's four 8.2 m VLTs (Very Large Telescopes) located on Cerro Paranal in Chile.
• Boeing Spectrolab terrestrial solar cell surpasses 40% efficiency
  December 8, 2006, St. Louis, MO--Boeing's wholly owned subsidiary Spectrolab, has developed a solar cell, used with a concentrator, that reches a record efficiency of 40.7%. The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL; Golden, CO) verified the milestone.
• Apogee Photonics' uncooled lasers target 100 GbE optical standards
  December 5, 2006, Allentown, PA--Apogee Photonics, supplier of 10 and 40 Gb/s laser sources for the communications industry, is introducing new sources targeting the cost-effective transmission of the emerging class of "triple-play" applications--Internet, voice over Internet protocol (VOIP), and interactive video services--that are driving the future need for data link transmission speeds approaching 100 Gb/s.
• British researchers measure extremely short laser pulses
  December 4, 2006, London, England--Scientists from Imperial College London have perfected a technique for very accurately measuring and controlling the electromagnetic waves within some of the shortest laser pulses ever made.
• Femtosecond laser pulse creates true "black" metal
  November 22, 2006, Rochester, NY--Scientists at the University of Rochester claim to have found a way to change the properties of almost any metal, to render it, literally, black.
• Samsung shaves microns from LCD-thickness record
  November 21, 2006, Seoul, Korea--In the race to develop the world's thinnest active-matrix LCD panel, Samsung Electronics appears to have taken the lead for the moment. Intended for use in mobile phones, the display is only 0.82 mm thick, or 0.07 mm (70 microns) thinner than its next-thickest rival.
• New spectrally encoded endoscope images in three dimensions
  November 21, 2006, Boston, MA--Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have developed a new type of miniature endoscope that produces three-dimensional, high-definition images, which may greatly expand the application of minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. In the October 19 issue of Nature, the team from the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at MGH describes their prototype device and a demonstration of its use in a mouse model.
• Subaru Telescope adds laser guide star
  November 21, 2006, Mauna Kea, HI--Researchers at the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope have achieved "first light" with the instrument's new adaptive-optics (AO) system that includes a laser guide star. The AO-fortified telescope captured images of the Trapezium region of the Orion Nebula at a resolution of 0.06 arcsec, ten times better than the telescope's usual resolution.

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