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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Grants help students attend meetings in other countries
OSA Foundation travel grants allow undergraduate and graduate students working or studying in developing natio...
HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS: Printing technology enables HOE volume manufacturing
New master replicating technology that borrows concepts from the printing industry enables volume production o...
BEAM COMBINING: High-power fiber-laser beams are combined incoherently
Combining laser beams can boost power at the target far above that produced by a single laser. Incoherent beam...
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PHOTONICS INDUSTRY NEWS

Gooch & Housego fiber-optic modules qualified for ESA space mission
August 21, 2008--Gooch & Housego announced a supply deal with Swiss space equipment supplier, Oerlikon ...
SPIE announces newly elected 2009 officers and directors
August 21, 2008--At last week's Annual General Meeting of the Society, held August 12, 2008 in San Dieg...
"Green" optics conference, OPTOmism, announces call for papers
August 20, 2008--OPTOmism: Photonics for the Green Revolution, to be held by Laser Focus World (...
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Product Highlights

HGH Infrared Systems LWIR camera scans 360° every second
August 20, 2008--A long-wave infrared (LWIR) camera introduced by HGH Infrared Systems (Cambridge, MA a...
Renishaw unveils new StreamLine Plus Raman imaging system
August 18, 2008--StreamLine Plus, unveiled at ICORS 2008, is ten times faster thanks to optimization of...
Edmund Optics releases family of ultrafast laser mirrors
August 12, 2008--Edmund Optics released its ultrafast Ti:sapphire laser mirrors to keep your pulses tog...
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Technology News

NIST scientists make quantum dots emit photons one at a time
August 19, 2008--Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Gaithersbur...
Plastic OLEDs may have efficiency limit of 25%
August 18, 2008--An organic spin transistor may be plausible, say University of Utah researchers. But t...
Spatially offset Raman technology improves pharmaceutical processes
August 11, 2008--LiteThru Limited technology uses novel SORS spectroscopy technique to revolutionize qu...
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