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• Asteroid camera uses 1.4 gigapixel detector from MIT
  November 18, 2008--Silicon chips developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Cambridge, MA) are at the heart of a new survey telescope that will soon provide a more than fivefold improvement in scientists' ability to detect asteroids and comets that could someday pose a threat to the planet.
• Attosecond laser pulses steer hydrogen molecules
  November 17, 2008--Physicists at Kansas State use ultrafast lasers to control electrons in hydrogen molecules--and the results are surprising.
• Northrop Grumman releases FIRESTRIKE solid-state laser weapon
  November 13, 2008--The world's first weaponized solid-state laser for U.S. military services is ready for order from Northrop Grumman.
• Bookham introduces compact single-wavelength laser controller
  November 10, 2008--The New Focus low-cost compact laser controller enables Bookham to target Raman spectroscopy, metrology, and interferometry markets.
• Texas police department adopts 3D laser scanner for crime scene investigation
  November 6, 2008--Leica ScanStation measures crime scenes with high resolution to provide valuable three-dimensional images to police, detectives, and for juries.
• Rensselaer A-R coating improves solar-cell absorption
  November 6, 2008--A "near-perfect" antireflection coating for silicon solar cells will improve the efficiency of absorption, says professor Shawn-Yu Lin at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The A-R coating boosts the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allows those panels to absorb the entire spectrum of sunlight from any angle, regardless of the sun's position in the sky.
• New laser fabrication method makes for less expensive greener displays
  November 3, 2008--The 400G laser by Powerlase, for OLED displays, is designed to reduce production costs and help the environment.
• New microscopy technique good for nanoscale dimensioning
  October 30, 2008--A new type of microscope--a through-focus scanning optical microscope (TSOM)--enables fast and cheap nanoscale imaging.
• Hubble scores a "perfect 10" after glitch delays shuttle
  October 30, 2008--Hubble has acquired an image looking like the number "10" with its fully restored capabilities after a data formatting instrument failure delayed a Space-Shuttle serving mission.
• Novel optical fiber enables transmission of ultrashort light pulses
  October 29, 2008--Researchers have developed a novel optical fiber that enables transmission of ultrashort light pulses with an unprecedented low degree of distortions.