News tagged with laser diodes


Research team developing new noninvasive brain-mapping technology

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two Japanese scientists will arrive at the University of Houston next month to help develop a unique brain-mapping device that promises to deliver more comprehensive and accurate insights into the mind at a fraction of the ...





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Researchers achieve major breakthrough in laser diode development

Researchers achieve major breakthrough in laser diode development

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 29, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (44) | comments 0

A team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara led by Shuji Nakamura, winner of the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize, has reported a major breakthrough in laser diode development.


Sharp to Begin Volume Production of High-Power 210-mW Blue-Violet Laser Diodes

Sharp to Begin Volume Production of High-Power 210-mW Blue-Violet Laser Diodes

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 14, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sharp Corporation will begin volume production in May of the High-Power Blue-Violet Laser Diode GH04P21A2G that achieves a power output of 210 mW, the industry’s highest. This device will enable high-speed ...


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Sony Develops World's Highest Optical Output 7.2W, 635nm Red Semiconductor Laser Array

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 25, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Sony Corporation today announced that it has developed a high-power, short-wavelength red semiconductor laser array diode, ideal for use as a light source in projection devices.


Bright sparks make gains towards plastic lasers of the future

Bright sparks make gains towards plastic lasers of the future

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (37) | comments 2

Imperial researchers have come one step closer to finding the 'holy grail' in the field of plastic semiconductors by demonstrating a class of material that could make electrically-driven plastic laser diodes ...


Tiny lasers plug the 'green gap'

Tiny lasers plug the 'green gap'

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Compact lasers which can work in formerly inaccessible parts of the spectrum and are suitable for mass production are now within reach.


New nanocrystals show potential for cheap lasers, new lighting

New nanocrystals show potential for cheap lasers, new lighting

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 4

For more than a decade, scientists have been frustrated in their attempts to create continuously emitting light sources from individual molecules because of an optical quirk called "blinking," but now scientists ...


Roadrunner supercomputer models nonlinear physics of high-power lasers

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion. This is the attempt to compress a target capsule containing isotopes of hydrogen with high-powered lasers to high enough pressure ...


Laser accelerated protons to the highest energies so far

Researchers use trident laser to accelerate protons to record energies

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 10

An international team of physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory has succeeded in using intense laser light to accelerate protons to energies never before achieved. Using this technique, scientists can ...


Researchers Create Tiny, Self-Propelled Devices

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 12, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (33) | comments 0

North Carolina State University scientists have figured out a method to supply microscopic devices with enough energy to not only allow them to propel themselves through liquid – a difficult function in its own right – but ...


NEC's "Tele Scouter"

Two Retinal Imaging Display Devices at Prototype Stage

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- NEC and Brother are both developing wearable prototype devices that use Retinal Imaging Display (RID) technology to project images directly on the wearer's retina. NEC's gadget is designed ...



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