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Technology Research News February 26, 2003	Lasers drive tiny toolset Researchers from Nagoya University in Japan have used light to drive a pair of resin nano tweezers and a nano needle.
Technology Research News April 20, 2005	Trapped Cells Make Micromotors Researchers have showed that it is possible to make live Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells rotate while pinned in a laser trap. The energy of a light beam can be used to manipulate and trap cells much like the way wind moves objects a larger scale.
Technology Research News July 30, 2003	Laser bursts pierce fog Researchers in France have shown that it is possible to fire laser beams through otherwise impenetrable clouds, haze and fog. This means it could be possible to transmit data through these opaque media and remotely sense objects or chemicals within clouds, haze or fog.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003	Teamed lasers make smaller spots Researchers from Boston University have tapped the properties of polarization in order to focus a laser beam more tightly in space. The method could be used to scan objects in finer detail and to make finer features in processes like rapid prototyping and photolithography.
Technology Research News December 17, 2003	Light spots sort particles Researchers from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland have found a cheap, simple way to sort microscopic particles by size and by refractive index. A material's refractive index has to do with how much it bends light. This technology will likely speed efforts to make labs-on-chips.
Technology Research News January 28, 2004	Micro tweezers have ice grip Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found that cooling things down makes for a simple way to rotate, twist, stretch, pick up and drop a wide range of microscopic items.
Technology Research News April 20, 2005	Spiral Laser Beam Demoed Researchers have found a way to generate helico-conical, or spiral-shaped light beams. The unusual-shaped beams are potentially useful in trapping and manipulating particles in biological and medical devices, including biochips.
Technology Research News June 16, 2004	Laser Tweezer Grabs Varied Specks Researchers have advanced the use of optical tweezers with a method that allows them to simultaneously trap and independently manipulate microscopic materials that have different indices of refraction.
Technology Research News July 28, 2004	Hologram makes fast laser tweezer The researchers devised an algorithm that works quickly enough to control the light beam interactively with a keyboard and mouse.
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 Eric Smalley	Wide laser makes simple tweezers Much of medical diagnostics and biomedical research involves trapping, manipulating and sorting individual cells and like-sized bits of matter. A recently demonstrated way of manipulating cells promises to be less expensive than laser tweezers.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Eric Smalley	Laser made from single atom The simplest possible laser -- a single atom -- has been on the drawing board for decades. Researchers have finally achieved the extremely precise control needed to make a laser from just one atom. The first demonstration of a single-atom laser showed that it's a different animal -- it produces quantum light.
Technology Research News October 20, 2004	Biochip levitates droplets Researchers have devised a way to magnetically levitate particles and droplets that have volumes smaller than one billionth of a milliliter. Labs-on-a-chip is one of many potential uses.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005	Lasers Built Into Fiber-Optics Researchers have crossed a gas-filled fiber optic laser with ordinary fiber optics to make a Raman laser and a frequency stabilizer -- devices that provide precise control of laser beams.
PC Magazine October 11, 2006	Bits & Bites v25n19 Intel and researchers have developed a silicon chip that can produce laser beams.
Popular Mechanics October 30, 2009 Jeremy Jacquot	7 Saber-Dueling, Phaser-Blasting Hollywood Laser Myths These sci-fi scenes may look cool on film, but real science tells a different story.
CIO May 15, 2003 John Edwards	Looking-Glass Fiber Don't look now, but a new low-loss optical fiber -- featuring a mirrored core -- can conduct an intense stream of laser light that would melt an ordinary fiber.
Technology Research News December 31, 2003 Eric Smalley	Light frozen in place Researchers at Harvard University have trapped and held a light pulse still for a few hundredths of a millisecond.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John Keller	Laser pointer or terrorist threat? Several recent incidents in which aircraft pilots claim to have been temporarily blinded by laser beams are igniting debate over whether legally obtained laser pointers in the wrong hands could be considered terrorist weapons.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003	Rig fires more photon pairs Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have moved the field of quantum communications forward with entangled photon beams that contain specific wavelengths of light and are relatively bright.
Technology Research News August 10, 2005	Textures ID paper and plastic Forgeries, however clever, could be a thing of the past thanks to a method of uniquely identifying paper and plastic surfaces.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004	Lasers Move Droplets Labs-on-a-chip promise inexpensive and portable biological and chemical analysis. The key to making the tiny labs work is finding ways to move and mix minuscule amounts of substances.
PC Magazine December 21, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Beam Me Up The VirtuSphere is a hollow ball that sits on top of a base that lets the sphere rotate 360 degrees. The person inside it interacts with an immersive virtual-reality environment.
PC World February 20, 2002 Kuriko Miyake	Terabyte Optical Disc in Development Optware refines holographic technology so disc can store more than 100 DVDs...
Wired April 2000	Verge ...This prototype laser system will trigger a new generation of ultrahigh-density data storage devices expected to be available in about 10 years...
Chemistry World December 6, 2006 Lionel Milgrom	Surf's up for Unstable Electron Beams Controlling short high-energy bursts of plasma electrons is difficult. But now physicists in France have managed it, using a laser to inject electrons into the wake of a plasma wave created from a jet of helium gas.
JavaWorld November 2000 Bill Venners	Using objects in place of documents for server-client interaction, Part 3 Bill Venners compares objects and documents from a user's perspective. Whereas the previous articles in the series focused on clients that operate autonomously, this article focuses on clients that connect network-delivered services to human users...
JavaWorld November 2000 M. Jeff Wilson	Get smart with proxies and RMI RMI enables developers to either get a remote reference to a distributed object, in which all method calls are forwarded to the server object, or get a copy of the remote object and invoke on it locally. You can combine these approaches in a way that is transparent to the client code...
Chemistry World February 7, 2008 Lewis Brindley	3d Television a Step Closer to Reality Watching televisions in 3D could be a reality in future thanks to a polymer that allows holograms to be recorded and erased on a single display.
JavaWorld April 2001 Piet Jonas	Secure type-safe collections A framework that overcomes the standard Java Collections Framework's main problem: its containers lack the ability to restrict themselves to storing objects of a specific type. The solution uses reflection, wrapper classes, and a collection of static factory methods...
JavaWorld March 2001 Brian Goetz	Design for performance, Part 3: Remote interfaces Many common Java performance problems stem from class design decisions made early in the design process, long before most developers even start thinking about performance. This article examines performance issues specific to remote applications...
Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Scans pick up object orientation Researchers in Spain have improved the process of pattern recognition with a method of mapping three-dimensional objects in a way that records every possible point of view of the object. The method could be used to inspect the orientation and shapes of manufactured goods, and also for face recognition.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John Keller	Northrop Grumman shoots 27-kw beam of light for 350 seconds from solid-state laser Potential uses include protective and strike capabilities for ships, manned and unmanned aircraft, and ground vehicles.
National Defense November 2012 Eric Beidel	Spacecraft, Free-Falling Satellites Perform 'Delicate Dance' The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working with researchers around the world -- including high schoolers -- to solve the problem of synchronizing the movements of tumbling objects in space.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004	Photonic Crystal Lasers Juiced Researchers have made a photonic crystal laser that is driven by electric current. The device could eventually be used as a source of single photons for quantum cryptography and communications devices.
JavaWorld August 2001 Jeff Friesen	Object-oriented language basics, Part 5 Every Java class has a superclass. In the absence of an extends keyword, Object is that superclass. Object takes center stage as this article presents its 11 methods...
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Laser Diffuse and Laser Retroreflective Sensors Banner Engineering is offering the World-Beam QS18LD laser diffuse and QS18LLP laser retroreflective sensors. The devices are for applications where high power and small beam size are important, such as semiconductor, materials handling, medical, and pharmaceuticals.
Chemistry World July 27, 2006 Tom Westgate	Lasers Make Erbium a Cool Customer A material that gets colder when hit with a laser beam may sound odd, but scientists have found that adding a dash of the metal erbium to certain compounds can turn them into miniature refrigerators.
National Defense March 2011 Eric Beidel	Research Could Lead to Pocket-Sized Bomb Detectors That is the ultimate goal of university researchers trying to figure out a way to use sound and radio waves to detect bombs.
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Willie D. Jones	Engineers Work on Laser-Based Brain-Machine Interface for Prosthetic Arm Laser stimulation of nerves may light the way to better nervous-system feedback for prosthetics
D-Lib April 2003 Staples et al.	The Fedora Project An Open-source Digital Object Repository Management System
JavaWorld June 2001 Jeff Friesen	Object-oriented language basics, Part 3 The author explores composition and demonstrates its value in object-oriented programming. Composition and inheritance are design consepts related in a manner similar to both sides of the same coin...
Popular Mechanics February 2007	Stanley Self-Leveling Laser Level: Upgrade Wish List It's a clear sign of progress when you can get an affordable self-leveling laser level with its own 9.5-ft. telescoping pole.
JavaWorld May 2001 Markus Dorn	Reading objects is easy with SAX By following some simple rules when mapping objects to XML, you can easily read object structures, even complex ones, from XML. See how you can use SAX to eliminate that complexity...
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National Defense March 2011 Eric Beidel	Boeing Creates 3D Maps from Laser Beams Boeing researchers have added another dimension to maps by shooting laser beams from the air.
Chemistry World October 7, 2010 Simon Hadlington	New light shed on 'photothermal' cell death Photothermal therapy - where tiny particles of a metal are introduced into a cell and heated by laser light to kill the cell - might not work in the way people think, researchers in the UK have discovered.
JavaWorld April 2001 Kelly Davis & Robert Di Marco	Manage distributed sessions Using RMI and the Proxy API introduced in JDK 1.3, this article describes a technique that allows one or more servlet servers to maintain session information on one or more session servers. By adopting this architecture, no single point of failure will exist for session management...
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 John Keller	Adaptive Optics Blends the Best of Electronic and Optoelectronic Technologies This approach uses deformable mirrors, MEMS, or liquid-crystal technologies to adjust for optical distortion in the atmosphere, which yields a new level of focus and resolution to high-energy lasers, deep-space exploration, and perhaps even eye surgery.
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Miles et al.	Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 John Keller	Editor's Notebook: Darpa Details Requirements for High-Energy Diode-Laser Initiative The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving ahead with a program to develop a 100-kilowatt weapons-grade diode laser capable of destroying military targets.