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    Astronomers Discover Pair Of Solar Systems In The Making  Jul 3, 2009
    Left: This is a Submillimeter Array image of 253-1536 taken at a wavelength of 880 microns. The mass of the disk on the left is 70 times the mass of Jupiter, while the one on the right is 20 Jupiter masses. (Science Daily)

    Russian Academy of Science Selects Zecotek Lasers for New Areas of Research  Jul 2, 2009
    "Our lasers give researchers and manufacturers an important new tool in biomedical instrumentation and in particular flow cytometry and confocal microscopy. By removing the present dependence on a single specific wavelength, our Green Fiber Laser allows for arbitrary wavelengths in the green spectrum with significantly improved sensitivity of detection, and it is better suited to a wider range of preferred biological markers. Our unique patented designs have created a new class of laser devices,... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)

    Dense Knots Of Cold Cosmic Dust -- Potential Birthplaces Of New Stars -- Discovered In Inner Regions Of The Milky Way  Jul 2, 2009
    This new guide for astronomers, known as the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL) shows the Milky Way in submillimetre-wavelength light (between infrared light and radio waves [1]). Images of the cosmos at these wavelengths are vital for studying the birthplaces of new stars and the structure of the crowded galactic core ... The Universe is relatively unexplored at submillimetre wavelengths, as extremely dry atmospheric conditions and advanced detector technology are... (Science Daily)

    Ultra-thin Material Absorbs Almost All Light  Jul 1, 2009
    Calculations show that the wavelength (colour) of the light particle has hardly any influence. The detector can therefore also be used for particles with completely different wavelengths, such as detection systems for telecommunications and infra-red equipment. (Science Daily)

    Big Impact From Tiny Semiconductor Lasers  Jul 1, 2009
    By doubling the frequency of the 1060nm laser, Brighter was able to halve its wavelength, due to the inverse relationship between the two. By this method, Brighter used frequency doubling to produce a green laser at 531nm, with output power up to more than 1. (Science Daily)

    NASA, Japan Release Most Complete Topographic Map Of Earth  Jul 1, 2009
    Aster acquires images from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelength region, with spatial resolutions ranging from about 15 to 90 meters (50 to 300 feet). A joint science team from the U.S. and Japan validates and calibrates the instrument and data products. (Science Daily)

    Lasers to seek, but not destroy, subs  Jun 30, 2009
    The first method blasts several different wavelengths of light. Each wavelength travels at a slightly different speed through air and water ... When all of the wavelengths catch up with one another, the concentrated energy boils the water. (MSNBC -- Technology)

    Letters Link Son Of Sam, Victims' Advocate  Jun 27, 2009
    "I feel like an outsider. I am on a different wavelength than everybody else -- programmed to kill. However, to stop me you must kill me," he warned in a letter to police. "I am the 'Monster' -- 'Beelzebub' -- the chubby behemoth. I love to hunt. Prowling the streets looking for fair game.". (CBS News)

    First Acoustic Metamaterial 'Superlens'  Jun 25, 2009
    The team, led by Nicholas X. Fang, a professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois, successfully focused ultrasound waves through a flat metamaterial lens on a spot roughly half the width of a wavelength at 60. 5 kHz using a network of fluid-filled Helmholtz resonators. (Science Daily)

    Kat prefers Neil, John to Akshay  Jun 24, 2009
    Your wavelength is the same, she admits. The two films that have been released after the producers strike ended havent had a very encouraging response. (India Times, India)

    Oclaro(TM) Introduces New Focus(TM) 1064nm High Power Laser for Raman Spectroscopy Applications  Jun 17, 2009
    June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oclaro, Inc. (Nasdaq: ), the newly named optics and photonics company following the merger of Bookham and Avanex, has introduced a 1064nm capability to its portfolio of New Focus(TM) high power SWL-7500 single wavelength lasers for Raman spectroscopy. The 1064nm variant of the high power laser (SWL-7521) is designed to meet demand from customers undertaking Raman spectroscopy work, where longer wavelengths can help reduce the fluorescence background of the... (PR Newswire)

    Verizon's Dynamic Optical Network Takes Global Honor  Jun 17, 2009
    The Wavelength Selectable Switch ROADM technology by Tellabs was credited in the award material for creating a solid optical foundation for Verizon to support 2. 5G, 10G, 40G, and eventually 100G, transport on a single architecture, simply by plugging in cards. (PR Newswire)

    Human ear inspires universal radio antenna  Jun 16, 2009
    The chip could switch to a nearby and less cluttered wavelength. Same for snowy and slow wireless Internet, or inaccurate GPS signals. (MSNBC -- Technology)

    David Lynch Thriller SURVEILLANCE to Premiere as a Sneak Preview on HDNet Movies  Jun 16, 2009
    Critics are raving about SURVEILLANCE. Richard Corliss of TIME says, "Think Rashomon meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in Twin Peaks ... and you may get on the warped wavelength of this semi-comic parable of social anarchy." Aaron Hillis of VILLAGE VOICE calls SURVEILLANCE, "Deliciously demented." And Geoff Berkshire of METROMIX says "Solid genre thrills with plenty of dark humor. Lynch has clearly learned from her father's knack for crafting eerily unsettling movies.". It's been a hell of a day... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    China's finest telescope to scan most celestial spectra  Jun 5, 2009
    York, however, said that precise calibrated data in wavelength and absolute flux of the celestial bodies cannot be done until the telescope's fiber positioning becomes "perfect" after debugging. California Institute of Technology astronomer Richard Ellis said, "A large telescope is one of the best examples of what a civilization does well, and I think here we look at the LAMOST now and we see what China has done.". (Xinhuanet, China)

    Goal: Developing The Best Atomic Clock In The World  Jun 5, 2009
    ScienceDaily (June 5, 2009) They are masters at working with light: the scientists at the newly founded QUEST Institute at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig. And they want to work on some of the most exciting questions relating to physics today: on unimaginably precise methods of measurement for observing the Earth, on the pressing question of the fundamentals of physics, of whether the fundamental constants are really constant, and on the development of the best... (Science Daily)

    Networx task-order update  Jun 5, 2009
    Sept. 25, 2008Education Department, Federal Student AidVerizon Universal for communications transport services: voice, circuit-switched data, toll-free, combined, private line, frame-relay, ATM; IP-based services: premise-based IP VPN, NBIP-VPN, voice over IP (VOIP) transport, content-delivery network, converged IP, IP telephony, IP; optical services: Synchronous Optical Network (Sonet), optical wavelength; wireless services: cellular/personal communications service (PCS), multimode wireless;... (FCW.com)

    Caltech scientists create nanoscale zipper cavity that responds to single photons of light  Jun 5, 2009
    "What we did was to take that and scale it all the way down to the size of the wavelength of light itself, creating a nanoscale device." ... Zipper cavities could also be used in optical communications, where circuits route information via optical beams of different colors, i.e., wavelengths. (EurekAlert!)

    Watertown School Committee hires new assistant superintendent  Jun 4, 2009
    "She and I are very much on the same wavelength about improving instruction and working close with teachers...to both plan and implement new forms of instruction, so I m really excited," Koufman-Frederick said. School Committee member Clyde Younger said he was also impressed by Fitzgerald's resume. (Watertown TAB & Press, MA)

    Regular Light Bulbs Made Super-efficient With Ultra-fast Laser  Jun 2, 2009
    Guo and Vorobeyv used that knowledge of how to control the size and shape of the nanostructures and thus what colors of light those structures absorb and radiate to change the amount of each wavelength of light the tungsten filament radiates. Though Guo cannot yet make a simple bulb shine pure blue, for instance, he can change the overall radiated spectrum so that the tungsten, which normally radiates a yellowish light, could radiate a more purely white light. (Science Daily)

    Cloaking Made Simpler, but Invisible Humans Not Yet a Reality  May 29, 2009
    The waveguide also appears to work for multiple wavelengths of visible light, something metamaterials have struggled to do ... But that cloak worked only at a predefined wavelength of light and concealed a very small area, calling attention to the shortcomings of metamaterial approaches. (Scientific American)

    India, Canada to finalise nuclear agreement soon: Gavai  May 27, 2009
    Gavai, commending Canada's efforts to sign a nuclear pact with India, said: "We want to make sure that the proposed Canada-India nuclear agreement is equitable and non-discriminatory and both the countries work on the same wavelength.". "Canadian firms, including federally-owned Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, Cameco Corp and SNC-Lavalin are eager to forge joint ventures or work with Indian firms to help build billion-dollar nuclear reactors and supply uranium," Gavai said. (India Times, India -- Community News)

    Healing wounds with lasers, vehicles that drive themselves, other cutting-edge optics  May 27, 2009
    Mittleman reports that this is the first time the wavefront of a THz beam has been under electrical control, which is important because THz wavelengths may be good for imaging and this would be the first step in allowing that by sending light across a whole plane, not just as a linear burst ... Federico Capasso, professor of applied physics at Harvard University, will present "Quantum Cascade Lasers: Compact Widely Tailorable Light Sources from 3 to 300 m Wavelength" on Wednesday, June 3,... (EurekAlert!)

    Ghana's War On Narcotic Drugs  May 25, 2009
    In a large measure, government functionaries must consistently saturate the media wavelength and lead the crusade by their pronouncements and actions, especially during their interactions with the larger society. This must be seen and heard repeatedly, and ought to be measurable and evaluated over a period of time through the mass media, public interactions, and feed back. (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    Quick Test For Prostate Cancer  May 24, 2009
    Scientists, led by Prof David Parker from Durham University's Chemistry Department, have worked with experts from the University of Maryland, USA to develop the technique that measures the wavelength of light as it is shone through diluted samples of body fluids. The research team, funded by the North East Proof of Concept Fund and the EPSRC, believe that the technique which can measure, with speed and accuracy, how citrate levels fall in the prostate gland as cancer develops, could also find... (Science Daily)

    Cosmology's Best Standard Candles Get Even Better  May 23, 2009
    The most accurate standardization factor Bailey found was the ratio between the 642-nanometer wavelength, in the red-orange part of the spectrum, and the 443-nanometer wavelength, in the blue-purple part of the spectrum ... Often it s with a slit spectrometer that loses a lot of light in some wavelengths or with filtered photometry that selects for certain colors ... Stephen s analysis was done with brightnesses he knew were correct at all wavelengths. (Science Daily)

    Invisibility cloaks spread out  May 23, 2009
    Transfomation optics were used recently to develop an improved with a 100-fold increase in area compared to previous visible-wavelength cloaks ... Other invisibility cloaks use optical diffraction gratings that tune into specific wavelengths with a negative index of refraction that allows the cloak to provide invisibility, but only at those wavelengths ... The result was a broadband cloak, working at a wide swath of wavelengths simultaneously, enabling it to shield an area covering the entire... (EETimes)

    All your movies on a single DVD  May 23, 2009
    Because nanoparticles react to light depending on their shape, it was possible to record information in a range of different colour's wavelengths at the same physical location on the disc. Current DVDs record in a single colour wavelength using a laser. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)

    Nanodisc with storage capacity of 2K DVDs  May 22, 2009
    Because nanoparticles react to light according to their shape, this allowed the researchers to record information in a range of different colour wavelengths on the same physical disc location. This is a major improvement on current DVDs that are recorded in a single colour wavelength using a laser, said a SUT release. (India Times)

    DVD that holds 2,000 movies unveiled  May 22, 2009
    A standard DVD recorder uses light of a single wavelength to 'burn' data onto the surface of the disc, reports ABC Online ... The nanorods react to light according to their shape - thus allowing researchers to record information using light of different wavelengths, or colours, on the same location on the disc ... In their paper, the researchers were able to record three layers of information, using three different wavelengths and two polarisations. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)

    Researchers create next-gen DVDs with huge massive storage  May 21, 2009
    Discs currently have three spatial dimensions, but the new five-dimensional optical recording technique used wavelength of light and its polarization as the two additional dimensions ... Because nanoparticles react to light according to their shape, it was possible to record information in a range of different colour wavelengths on the same physical disc location ... The researchers called this a major improvement on current DVDs that are recorded in a single colour wavelength using a laser. (Xinhuanet, China)

    How to fit 300 DVDs on one disc  May 21, 2009
    The scientists used the nanoparticles to record information in a range of different colour wavelengths on the same physical disc location. This is a major improvement over traditional DVDs, which are recorded in a single colour wavelength with a laser. (BBC News -- Technology)

    Lettuce gets a healthy suntan  May 19, 2009
    The effect also seems to be particularly sensitive to the wavelength used peaking at 282 and 296 nanometers, and absent for longer wavelength UV. "We've been pleasantly surprised to see how effective the LEDs are, and are now testing how much exposure is required, and whether the light should be pulsed or continuous," says Britz. To cut transportation costs and feed the market in the wintertime, more produce is grown in greenhouses. (EurekAlert!)

    Former astronaut brings space stories down to earth  May 19, 2009
    They ve spent the last year learning about Mars and will be submitting a proposal to NASA and Arizona State University to use the THEMIS visible wavelength camera which is onboard the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. Teresa Ressel is a reporter for the Daily Journal and can be reached at 573-431-2010, ext. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)

    Sharing sexual fantasies  May 19, 2009
    Make an effort to arouse the same desire in them as well, so that both of you will be at same wavelength while performing the act, which is more pleasurable. Shedding all inhibitions and making fantasy sharing a simpler task in a relationship, we suggest some easy ways out to open up with your partner. (India Times, India)

    New system for detection of single atoms  May 18, 2009
    Passing through the center of both mirrors is a laser beam of wavelength 780 nanometers just slightly longer than visible red light. The beam excites the atom as it falls between the mirrors, causing it to reradiate the light in all directions. (EurekAlert!)

    Expression Of Infrared Fluorescence Engineered In Mammals  May 17, 2009
    Because the wavelength of IFPs is able to penetrate tissue, these proteins are suitable for whole-body imaging in small animals. Their findings will be published in the May 8 edition of the journal Science. (Science Daily)

    Herschel And Planck On Way To Study Our Cosmic Roots  May 15, 2009
    Herschel will detect light that has gone largely unexplored until now, with wavelengths in the infrared and submillimeter range ... Planck will see longer wavelength light, from the submillimeter to microwave range. (Science Daily)

    Dow-Key Now Offers Fiber Optic Switching Systems  May 15, 2009
    This model switches signals in pure optical domain with an operating wavelength of 1530-1565 nm in C-band and a data rate of 4 Gbps. The system is configured partially as crossbar and partially as fan-out, with 8x14 I/O ports using LC connectors. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)

    First Two ALMA Antennas Successfully Linked  May 14, 2009
    ALMA will operate as an interferometer, capturing millimetre and submillimetre wavelength signals from the sky with multiple antennas, and combining them to create extremely high resolution images, similar to those that would be obtained by a single, giant antenna with a diameter equal to the distance between the antennas used. This can only be achieved with the perfect synchronisation of the antennas and the electronic equipment: a precision much better than one millionth of a millionth of a... (Science Daily)

    Tweet, tweet: From luminaries like Hawk, Shaq and Lance to teams like the Chargers, the entire sports world is chirping about Twitter (4760)  May 13, 2009
    After the NCAA banned text messaging two years ago, coaches needed a new way to reach out to high school stars on their wavelength (read: on their cell phones). Along came Twitter and ---- voila. (North County Times)

    New general, new approach in Afghanistan  May 12, 2009
    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is an orbiting infrared observatory that will complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope, with longer wavelength coverage and greatly improved sensitivity. The longer wavelengths enable the JWST to look much closer to the beginning of time and to hunt for the unobserved formation of the first galaxies, as well as to look inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming today. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)

    Common valor  May 10, 2009
    "We were on the same wavelength," she said. "We may have been separated geographically. He was out running around with the Marines but we still had a really close bond.". (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)

    Infrared data from high-altitude aircraft helps find leafy spurge  May 9, 2009
    When leafy spurge is in yellow bloom in June and July, there is spectral wavelength contrast with the surrounding vegetation. Hunt successfully identified leafy spurge from AVIRIS photos. (Minnesota Farm Guide, MN)

    Method To Integrate Plasmon-based Nanophotonic Circuitry With State-of-the-art ICs Developed  May 8, 2009
    Moreover, surface plasmons are capable of capturing, guiding, and focusing electromagnetic energy in deep-subwavelength length-scales, i.e. smaller than the diffraction limit of the light. This is unlike conventional dielectric optical waveguides, which are limited by the wavelength of the light, and which therefore cannot be scaled down to tens of nanometers, which is the dimension of the components on today s nanoelectronic ICs ... As an important stepping stone to such components, IMEC has... (Science Daily)

    World's Smallest Incandescent Lamp  May 7, 2009
    28, 2008) In a new study, physicists have invented a simple structure called a meta-screen, designed to focus light into tiny spots smaller than the wavelength of the photons in. (Apr. (Science Daily)

    Carbon Nanotube Device That Can Detect Colors Of The Rainbow Constructed  May 5, 2009
    The idea of carbon nanotubes being light sensitive has been around for a long time, but earlier efforts using an individual nanotube were only able to detect light in narrow wavelength ranges at laser intensities. The Sandia team found that their nanodetector was orders of magnitude more sensitive, down to about 40 W/m2 about 3 percent of the density of sunshine reaching the ground. (Science Daily)

    Catching The Lightwave: Nano-mechanical Sensors 'Wired' By Photonics  May 5, 2009
    ScienceDaily (May 4, 2009) As researchers push towards detection of single molecules, single electron spins and the smallest amounts of mass and movement, Yale researchers have demonstrated silicon-based nanocantilevers, smaller than the wavelength of light, that operate on photonic principles eliminating the need for electric transducers and expensive laser setups ... Photonic crystals -- materials with precise patterns of gaps that make them reflect only selected wavelengths of light -- could... (Science Daily)

    Arctic Trek To 'Break The Ice' On New NASA Airborne Radars  May 5, 2009
    One of the radars, the L-band wavelength Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, or UAVSAR, calibrates and supplements satellite data; the other is a proof-of-concept Ka-band wavelength radar called the Glacier and Land Ice Surface Topography Interferometer, or GLISTIN. ... Scientists expect the longer wavelengths of the L-band radar to penetrate deeper into the ice than C-band radar, "seeing" ice motions or structures hundreds of meters below the ice surface, rather than only at... (Science Daily)

    Tiny Lasers Plug The 'Green Gap'  May 4, 2009
    The standard approach uses so-called edge-emitting diodes that offer a restricted range of visible wavelengths, which has proven to be technologically difficult to expand ... Using traditional laser diode technology it is still difficult to produce high-brightness radiation at the wavelengths preferred for laser projection applications, Guina says ... Guina was project manager of the EU-funded NATAL project, which set out to develop new laser technologies that would not only plug the green gap... (Science Daily)

    Kostya catch-up claims Hatton  May 4, 2009
    Lyon is not a certainty for the NSW team but they obviously want him to be on a representative wavelength by playing in the City-Country match, in case they do want to use him. The one and only Tom Raudonikis coached NSW to win the 1998 series, but was gone after losing in 1999. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)

    Muggle invisibility cloak closer to reality  May 4, 2009
    Adapting the IR cloaks - the first to work at optical wavelengths - so they also work in visible light should be relatively straightforward, said the leader of one team, Xiang Zhang, of the University of California at Berkeley ... One of the main technical challenges is that the internal structures of the material must be smaller than the wavelength of the radiation they channel ... Microwaves have wavelengths longer than a millimetre, but visible light has much smaller wavelengths, between 400... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)

    'Invisibility Cloak' Successfully Hides Objects  May 2, 2009
    Says Zhang, Even with the advances that have been made in optical metamaterials, scaling sub-wavelength metallic elements and placing them in an arbitrarily designed spatial manner remains a challenge at optical frequencies ... Right now the cloak operates for light between 1,400 and 1,800 nanometers in wavelength, which is the near-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, just slightly longer than light that can be seen with the human eye. (Science Daily)

    Scientists unveil the six million shot camera, the world's fastest  Apr 30, 2009
    "Bright spots reflect their assigned wavelength but dark ones don't," explained Bahram Jalali, the University of California, Los Angeles professor who led the research. Our next step is to improve the spatial resolution so we can take crystal clear pictures of the inner structure of cells. (BBC News)

    GE holographic disk said to top 500 Gbytes  Apr 29, 2009
    Last year, GE said it had successfully used 405-nm wavelength blue lasers to enable its next-generation holographic disks to be backward compatible with existing high-density Blu-ray disks. However, the patterns written were too faint to be recorded in the sub-micron domains necessary to exceed Blu-Ray densities. (EETimes)

    Letter: Look more carefully into climate change  Apr 28, 2009
    realratt wrote on Apr 24, 2009 7:01 AM:" What about Milankovitch cycles and the physics of greenhouse gases and radiation wavelength? I don't think I have enough letters after my name to understand; I guess I am technically deficient. ". TOP JOBS. (Montana Standard, MT)

    NFL Draft Live Blog  Apr 28, 2009
    I get the distinct feeling that Kiper and McShay aren't quite on the same wavelength. Poor Kiper just wants to break down the draft. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)

    New Effort To Discover Habitable Earth-like Planets Around Other Stars  Apr 28, 2009
    It will incorporate several improvements on the original HARPS spectrograph at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, most notably the use of a laser frequency grid or 'astro comb', which will provide the ultra-stable wavelength reference against which tiny Doppler motions can be measured with an unparalleled precision of a few cm/s over a period of years. Kepler will carry out a continuous 4-year survey of more than 100000 stars in the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra. (Science Daily)

    First Trace Gas Analyzer to Simultaneously Measure CO, CO2, and H2O in Real-Time  Apr 20, 2009
    Based on Picarro's proven wavelength-scanned cavity ring down spectroscopy (WS-CRDS) technology, this new analyzer also provides quantitative data on H2O concentration levels ... The company is a technology leader in wavelength scanned cavity ring down spectroscopy (WS-CRDS), which enables the highest sensitivity, precision, and accuracy measurements, with unprecedented ease of use. (PR Newswire)

    Nanoparticles Harnessed To Track Cancer-cell Changes  Apr 20, 2009
    The dye molecules respond to laser light by fluorescing echoing light at exactly the same wavelength, or color, with which they were stimulated ... They give off not just single-wavelength fluorescent echoes but also more-complex fingerprints comprising wavelengths slightly different from the single-color beams that lasers emit. (Science Daily)

    New Method Could Lead To Narrower Chip Patterns  Apr 17, 2009
    16, 2009) Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain wavelengths of light ... But these technologies have faced fundamental limits because they tend to rely on light to produce these patterns, and most techniques cannot produce patterns much smaller than the wavelengths of light itself ... The key is using interference patterns, in... (Science Daily)

    Scientists demonstrate laser with controlled polarization  Apr 13, 2009
    "The novelty of our approach is that instead of being conducted externally, which requires bulky and expensive optical components, manipulation of the beam polarization is achieved by directly integrating the polarizer on the laser facet. This compact solution is applicable to semiconductor lasers and other solid-state lasers, all the way from communication wavelengths to the mid-infrared and Terahertz spectrum" ... The QC laser emitted at a wavelength of ten microns (in the invisible part of... (EurekAlert!)

    2500 times thinner than human hair  Apr 12, 2009
    There is usually a direct relationship between the wavelength of light used and the feature size created. Therefore, nanofabrication has depended on short wavelength ultraviolet light to generate ever smaller features ... "The RAPID lithography technique we have developed enables us to create patterns twenty times smaller than the wavelength of light employed," explained Dr. Fourkas, "which means that it streamlines the nanofabrication process. We expect RAPID to find many applications in areas... (India Times, India -- Health/Science)

    MIT researchers claim novel pattern exposure  Apr 11, 2009
    MANHASSET, NY Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers claim to have made a breakthrough allowing the production of nano-scale patterns much smaller than the wavelength of light used to expose them ... The novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip uses a material that can be switched from transparent to opaqued vice versa by exposing it to certain wavelengths of light ... The new absorbance modulation technique makes it possible to create lines that are only... (EETimes)

    Distinguishing Single Cells With Nothing But Light  Apr 10, 2009
    "Conceptually it's pretty straightforward you shine a specified wavelength of light onto your sample and you get back a large number of peaks spread out like a rainbow," says Berger ... This is because the wavelength of the light can be precisely calibrated to minimize absorption by the cells. (Science Daily)

    Laser threat  Apr 9, 2009
    It records wavelength to match beam to pointer - like matching bullet to a gun 3 GPS details enable helicopter's thermal image camera to find suspect and police patrol on ground is directed to address ... The Laser Event Recorder not only takes a picture of the attack and logs where it came from using GPS, but also analyses the wavelength of the laser being used ... The suspect may try to claim it hasn't been used, but it is still warm, and the police have the evidence of its wavelength from the... (BBC News -- UK)

    Yes, no, wait … slapstick running is symptomatic  Apr 9, 2009
    Haddin is not yet on the same wavelength as his partners, and confidence has fallen. Until the running is addressed, the team will rely too much on boundaries. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)

    DNA-based Assembly Line For Precision Nano-cluster Construction  Apr 8, 2009
    This phenomenon, known as a plasmon resonance, leads to strong absorption of light at a specific wavelength ... By adjusting these parameters, scientists might engineer clusters for absorbing a range of wavelengths in solar-energy conversion devices. (Science Daily)

    Dead cells help fish see  Apr 7, 2009
    The lens can then only focus a single wavelength on the retina. The eye thereby loses its ability to create sharp colour images, but instead utilises the wavelengths that are most important for night vision. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)

    Tensions high as N Korea launches rocket  Apr 6, 2009
    "The satellite is rotating normally in its orbit and is beaming immortal revolutionary songs, such as the Song for General Kim Il-sung and the Song for General Kim Jong-il, as well as measurement data to Earth at a wavelength of 470 megahertz.". The satellite is also relaying telecommunications on a UHF channel, it said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)

    Bradley: Crazy? Or crazy like a Fox?  Apr 3, 2009
    We were on the same wavelength. I attended UGA from 1992-1996, so I was there when the most massive of the renovations of the Steg took place. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)

    SDK Offers AlGaInP Red LED Chips Optimized for Plant Growth  Apr 2, 2009
    Tokyo, Apr 2, 2009 - (JCN Newswire) - Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has started selling samples of aluminum-gallium-indium-phosphide (AlGaInP) LED chips that emit red light with wavelength of 660 nm: the optimum light for accelerating the growth of plants ... It has been found that red light with wavelengths of around 660 nm is most effective in increasing the efficiency of photosynthesis, thereby accelerating the growth of plants ... However, fluorescent and sodium lamps emit a great deal of light... (JCN Network, Japan)

    France and Germany 'demand regulation at G20'  Apr 1, 2009
    "We are on exactly the same wavelength," said the French leader, stressing that Paris and Berlin "will carry a European vision, based on European values" to the two-day summit. "I know from experience that we're going to have to fight right up to the last minute," he said of the talks ahead. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)

    Dow slumps, but still gains on week  Mar 28, 2009
    Thursday, Level 3 announced a deal with Telefonica International Wholesale Services to establish a dedicated wavelength network across North America. Up 6 percent (9 cents) to $1. (Denver Business Journal, CO)

    MRSA Study Suggests Strategy Shift Needed To Develop Effective Therapeutics  Mar 23, 2009
    31, 2009) Two common strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as MRSA, were virtually eradicated in the laboratory by exposing them to a wavelength of blue light, in a process. (Apr. (Science Daily)

    Chinese square off with Europe in space  Mar 23, 2009
    Chinese officials have told the International Telecommunications Union, the United Nations agency that allocates radio spectrum frequencies for satellite use, that China plans to transmit signals on the wavelength that the European Union wants to use for Galileo's Public Regulated Service ... Because some of China's satellites are expected to begin transmitting before the Europeans can get to the frequency, China would effectively be able to gain ownership of it, meaning that Europe would be... (International Herald Tribune)

    Colonel sees master plan as his legacy at the Intelligence Center  Mar 21, 2009
    The fort also must be ready for better use of the technology, which means being able to used fiber optics and channel more information over those cables in what is called Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing as part of the 2020 plan, Briley said. Establishing a modular business park complex for contractor offices is close to being started, and one of the older facilities the Kelly Ops building is scheduled for major renovation, he said. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)

    Zinc oxide gives green shine to new photoconductors  Mar 19, 2009
    The new material converts light into electricity but, unlike conventional materials, also features a novel combination of attractive attributes: environmentally benign chemistry, low-cost production, a high level of detectivity, mechanical flexibility and wavelength tunability (ability to design the material to absorb the most important part of the solar spectrum). This impressive package of features holds promise for the material's use in large-area photovoltaic solar cells as well as flexible... (EurekAlert!)

    Photonic IC startup secures $19.5 million  Mar 18, 2009
    All active and passive components of the chip; including the distributed-feedback (DFB) laser, optically pre-amplified detector (OPAD), wavelength splitter, spot-size converter and various elements of passive waveguide circuitry are, uniquely, integrated in one epitaxial growth step, without re-growth or post-growth modification of the epitaxial material. With respect to transmit performance, OneChip s single-frequency DFB lasers will offer a superior performance in terms of reach and bit rate... (EETimes)

    OFC/NFOEC features breakthroughs in next-generation ethernet, metamaterials, networks  Mar 18, 2009
    Talk OTuI3, "First Demonstration of On-Chip Wavelength Multicasting" (Tuesday, March 24, 6 - 6:15 p.m.) ... These lenses can be used to image objects with a spatial resolution smaller than the wavelength of the illuminating light source, thus circumventing the normal "diffraction limit," which says that a lens cannot produce an image with a spatial resolution better than approximately half the wavelength of the light used to make the image ... Alexander Kildishev will report on optical... (EurekAlert!)

    Color Vision: How Our Eyes Reflect Primate Evolution  Mar 17, 2009
    It is remarkable, then, that for most human beings any color can be reproduced by mixing together just three fixed wavelengths of light at certain intensities ... Each absorbs light from a particular region of the spectrum and is characterized by the wavelength it absorbs most efficiently ... The short-wavelength (S) pigment absorbs light maximally at wavelengths of about 430 nanometers (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter), the medium-wavelength (M) pigment maximally absorbs light at... (Scientific American)

    Breakthrough For Post-4G Communications  Mar 15, 2009
    The mm-wave band is the extremely high frequency part of the radio spectrum, from 30 to 300 gigahertz (GHz), and it gets it name from having a wavelength of one to 10mm. Until now, the band has been largely undeveloped, so the new technology makes available for exploitation more of the scarce and much-in-demand spectrum. (Science Daily)

    Diamonds: A fighter pilot's best friend?  Mar 14, 2009
    As long as the individual diamonds that make up the larger diamond are much smaller than the wavelength of light shining through them, the diamond's superior optical qualities are maintained, said Mitchell. The second big difference is how the diamonds are formed. (MSNBC -- Technology)

    New aerosol observing technique turns gray skies to blue  Mar 13, 2009
    The Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP), an aircraft-based version of APS, is the first such instrument to measure polarized light at one particularly important wavelength (2 ... RSP and the soon-to-be-launched APS use parallel optical paths to collect measurements from all wavelengths and polarizations simultaneously ... This approach to monitoring the continuously changing scene offers greater accuracy compared to previous polarimeters, which used a rotating filter wheel to measure wavelengths... (EurekAlert!)

    Isotopic Total Organic Carbon Solution Scoops Silver Prize at PITTCON(R)  Mar 13, 2009
    This integrated system is built around Picarro's unique WS-CRDS (wavelength scanned cavity ring down spectroscopy) analyzer technology integrated with OI Analytical's TOC combustion/oxidation front-end ... The company is a leader in wavelength scanned cavity ring down spectroscopy (WS-CRDS) technology with eight exclusive licenses to Stanford University patents and nine of its own on WS-CRDS extensions. (PR Newswire)

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