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Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2004 |
Air Force Eyes Combination Infrared Camera and Communications Device U.S. Air Force scientists are looking to Sensors Unlimited Inc. to develop a smart, multifunction, dual-wavelength combination video camera and communications tool for night-vision surveillance and reconnaissance applications.   |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2007 |
Electro-Optics Briefs Edmund Optics offers versatile UV microscope... Northrop Grumman opens facility for high-energy lasers... Salvador Imaging announces color night-vision camera... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2004 |
Fiber lasers emerge as strong competitor for future laser weapons They may be applied to jet fighters, land vehicles, and perhaps even man-portable systems. And they even have the potential to edge-out other solid-state laser approaches such as slab lasers and free-electron lasers. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2006 |
Northrop Grumman Test Fires Powerful, Continuously Pulsed Illuminator Laser A new diode-pumped solid-state, next-generation illuminator laser developed delivered multikilowatt output power while operating at 5,000 pulses per second during recent tests, company officials reported. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2005 |
Products Direct flash lamp pumped die laser... Military- and space-qualified laser diodes... Near-infrared diode laser... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2007
John Keller |
Fiber Laser Sales to Grow 26 Percent Annually Through 2011 Many key questions remain, such as how fast and how much market share can kilowatt fiber lasers gain from carbon dioxide lasers in sheet metal cutting? And, how much vertical integration is necessary to succeed in the fiber laser market? |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2007 |
Electro-Optics Briefs Imperx introduces cool cameras for low-noise applications... Coherent introduces high-reliability CO 2 lasers... Thermoteknix launches MIRICLE always-on thermal-imaging camera... LPKF offers laser-based circuit-board production on demand... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2006 |
Electro-optics Briefs UV and EB market growth re-accelerates... V-groove and optical-fiber arrays... Edmund Optics to offer products that operate in ultraviolet wavelengths... Navy awards contract for high-performance IR cameras... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2005
John McHale |
Chasing the goal of an efficient battlefield laser U.S. DoD researchers aim to develop small lasers for use in tactical air missions. The engineering challenge has been taken up by contractors including Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2008 |
Aculight Offers Telesto Pulsed Fiber Lasers for Surveillance and Mapping The Telesto family of pulsed fiber lasers are perfect for applications such as laser radar (LADAR), surveillance, mapping, and nonlinear optics conversion. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2004
John Keller |
Military, Industry Seek to Boost Efficiency of Diode Lasers Efficiency is a driving trend in military optoelectronics technology development. Increasing efficiency of lasers would translate into fewer batteries that fighting forces in the field would have to carry. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2007
John Keller |
Air Force Seeks Technologies to Enhance Airborne Laser Project Air Force researchers are asking industry to develop new enabling electro-optic technologies for the Airborne Laser system (ABL), which is designed to destroy ballistic missiles in flight. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2004
John Keller |
Air Force Seeks to Develop Phased-Array Lasers for Weapons and Communications U.S. military researchers are looking into ways of steering laser beams from flat arrays of optical emitters, in much the same way that phased-array radar systems steer radar beams without the need of a rotating platform. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2006
John McHale |
Future weapons: Solid-state lasers Industry and military scientists are moving forward in the quest to develop solid-state lasers for use as weapons by warfighters of the future. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2004
John Keller |
Newport acquires Spectra-Physics, bolsters presence in military and homeland security applications Spectra-Physics brings to Newport an established sales base in the defense industry, with laser and photonics products for applications in targeting, rangefinding, and UV imaging. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2005 |
Sandia Uses Presstek Diode in Shuttle Camera The LT-1110 is a CS-mounted diode- laser bar that delivers 20 watts of power at wavelengths of 808 and 915 nanometers. The lasers are useful for both commercial and solid-state pumping applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2006 |
Optoelectronics Briefs Bright future for diamond in laser and LED application... Low-cost line of green laser-diode modules... Ultraviolet camcorder available... Shortwave IR camera for military and commercial use... etc. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2010
Eric Jhonsa |
Our Top 5 Tech Stocks For 2011: IPG Photonics The company's fiber lasers are gobbling up market share in a hurry. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2009 |
Electro-optics Brief Machine vision system, software... Reconnaissance satellite goes operational... Green fiber lasers... Rugged flat panels for U.S. Navy CDS program... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2005 |
Laser weapons slowly shifting from science fiction to reality During the exercise, called Advanced Concepts Event or ACE, pilots used the newly developed laser-armed F-16 simulator to prepare for aerial combat once laser weapons become available. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2008 |
DARPA Looks to Sensors Unlimited to Develop Next-Generation Night-Vision Technology The night-vision sensor technology will be for helmet-mounted and micro vehicle applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2005 |
Optoelectronics Briefs Breakthrough in solid-state laser technology... Fiber-optic field-simulation test instrument... TTL modulation added to photon devices... New high-power optical fiber... Light-sensitive camera... High-power multimode diode bar... Laser Diode earns ISO 9001:2000 certification... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2008
John McHale |
Laser Weapons, on Target The U.S. military and its partners from industry are meeting major milestones in various programs as they move closer to making laser weaponry a standard part of the U.S. arsenal. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2006 |
Raytheon researchers eye boosting laser power to weapons-grade levels High-power laser systems made from low-power modules would leapfrog bottlenecks to create ever-higher-power monolithic laser systems. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2007
Courtney Howard |
Ionatron Forms Laser Group to Focus on Military, Aerospace, and Security Applications The company has established an organization to build specialty lasers for military, aerospace, and security applications |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2007 |
Aculight Corp. To Help Ready Solid-State Lasers for Military and Aerospace Applications The company won a three-year subcontract to help prepare optically pumped semiconductor laser technology for volume manufacturing. |
National Defense
August 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Laser Weapons: Laboratory Toys or Imminent Battlefield Systems? Clearing the hurdles will be a challenge, given the tough economic climate and the uncertainty of future warfare needs in the Defense Department. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2007 |
Products Machine-vision solution... Sapphire waveplates change beam polarization state... IR laser-diode module with high pointing stability... Miniature ruggedized thermal-imaging cameras... etc. |
National Defense
October 2009
Grace V. Jean |
The Promise of the World's Smallest Lasers Recent advances in power efficiency, design and high temperature functionality have pushed ultra-thin semiconductor lasers closer to real-world utility. |
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. |
AboutSafety
May 8, 2001 |
Laser Safety Guidelines for understanding the dangers of lasers and the importance of working with them safely... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2005 |
InGaAs shortwave infrared enables imaging of invisible lasers The expansion of military efforts has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of electro-optic (EO) systems installed on military hardware. -Electro-optic imaging systems are now on everything from aircraft carriers to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to individual soldiers' rifles and helmets. |
Technology Research News
February 9, 2005 |
All-silicon chip laser demoed Researchers from Intel have moved a step forward in the push to meld lasers and silicon chips, which could eventually be used in portable biological and chemical sensors, to amplify communications signals, and to convert light to different wavelengths. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006 |
Miniature 1064-Nanometer Fiber Lasers MPB Communications is releasing a series of miniature ytterbium fiber lasers called the YFL- series. The laser is for airborne and mobile deployments. Applications include target designation, spectroscopy, remote sensing, and second harmonic generation. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2009 |
Electro-Optics Brief Thermal cameras for digital video surveillance offered by Premier Electronics... RPMC delivers military laser for harsh-environment uses... Coherent introduces modular diode laser system with 400 watts of power... etc. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2004 |
Test Moves Missile-Defense Laser Program Closer to Deployment The future U.S. Airborne Laser system took another step forward last month when modules of the system's megawatt-class chemical oxygen-iodine laser were test fired for the first time while linked together as one unit. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2007
John McHale |
Laser Weapons: Moving From Promise to Performance The military's laser weapons programs are making steady progress in their transition from the laboratory to the battlefield, with deployment of initial systems expected within the next three to five years. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2005 |
Optoelectronics Briefs Dual-wavelength focal-plane array in development... Double-clad ytterbium fiber available for fiber-laser applications...Ultraviolet refractive beam shaper unveiled... Navy picks supplier for optoelectronic sensor systems... Air Force awards contract for high-power fiber amplifier... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2010
John McHale |
U.S. Army Selects Northrop Grumman 100-Kilowatt, Solid-State Laser for Field Tests A solid-state laser system from Northrop Grumman Corp. which produces a powerful beam from a continuous-wave, electric laser is joining other speed-of-light weapons for field tests at the Army's High Energy Laser System Test Facility (HELSTF) |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2005 |
Briefs 10 million cycles is probable for new optical switch... Newport announces Oriel Light Resource Catalog... Coherent expands line of high-power laser diodes... etc. |
Technology Research News
August 11, 2004 |
Twisted fiber filters light Researchers have devised a way to control light inside optical fiber communications lines. The method could enable faster data transmission rates in fiber-optic lines and new twists on devices like lasers and sensors. |
Industrial Physicist
Feb/Mar 2004 |
New Products Pump-Compressor... High-Speed Camera... Laser Scan Arm... Oil-Shear Brakes... etc. |
National Defense
August 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Navy Aiming for Laser Weapons at Sea The Navy expects to incorporate lasers onto most ship classes in its surface fleet, including amphibious ships, cruisers and destroyers. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
Weapons at the Speed of Light Laser weaponry will be a tool in the U.S. military's arsenal much sooner than many think, with the first applications for missile defense from the ground and the air. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2008 |
Coherent's 100-Watt Diode Bar Can Combine with Others to Produce Kilowatt-Class Lasers The primary application for the diode laser bar is as a pump light source for use in solid state lasers for medical and industrial applications. |
National Defense
August 2014
Dan Parsons |
Lasers Could Become Cost Effective Missile Defense Weapons The U.S. military invests more money than any other country, but its expensive high-tech defenses are increasingly countered by the proliferation of relatively cheap but effective weapons. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2009
Courtney Howard |
Government Programs Offer Money to Buy IPG Photonics Fiber Lasers Fiber lasers, which are considered to be more energy-efficient than conventional YAG and CO2 gas lasers, are well suited for the new financial assistance programs which promote the deployment of energy-efficient technologies. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2007
Tekla S. Perry |
Gregory Makhov: In Love With the Light Guiding Light: This engineer creates laser light shows that dazzle. |
