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July 8, 2006 |
Science Safari: Visiting RadTown The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched an interactive Web site that uses an animated town to provide basic information on radiation in the environment. |
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April 2004
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Up Front: DVD--Hot Today, Hassles Tomorrow? Burn, everybody, burn! But get ready for headaches with new technologies. |
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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. |
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March 9, 2005 |
Silicon Chip Laser Goes Continuous Useful lasers made from silicon would make it possible to move data between and within computer chips using light rather than electricity. This would make for faster chips that could be more tightly integrated with optical communications equipment. |
PC World
August 2006 |
Ask Our Experts: DVD Burner Life Span? How long should an optical drive last under normal use? |
PC World
June 18, 2002
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Philips Shrinks CD to 1.2 Inches Blue laser technology supports tiny drive for use in phones, PDAs. |
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May 8, 2001 |
Laser Safety Guidelines for understanding the dangers of lasers and the importance of working with them safely... |
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Your Routine Radiation Dose The radiation risk from a single CT, or computed tomography, to an individual is small, but some doctors are worried about the buildup over time. |
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December 2004
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Feel the Burn If you've been making do without a DVD burner, now's the time to take advantage of recent advancements and upgrade your hardware. |
InternetNews
February 17, 2005
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Intel Beams Up Silicon The ability to build a laser from standard silicon could lead to inexpensive optical devices that move data inside and between computers. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2005 |
European Company Optimizes Optical Fiber for High-Energy Amplification Liekki, a supplier of highly doped optical fibers in Finland, has developed an optical fiber for amplifying pulses from 1-micron lasers. |
PC Magazine
March 14, 2007
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Gearlog: A Laser That's Not for Pointing In case you missed the memo, real lasers are now for sale on the Web. |
PC World
December 2003
Richard Baguley |
DVD Burners: The New Optical Choice Rewritable DVD drives are fast replacing CD-RW models as the optical drives of choice. They offer a fast, cheap, and convenient way to store large amounts of data, and they let you burn your own movies or recorded TV programs to DVD to be watched on a standard DVD player. |
Technology Research News
October 20, 2004
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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. |
PC World
September 2002
Melissa J. Perenson |
Buyers' Guide to Rewritable DVD Drives Of the competing drive types, DVD+RW copies data and formats discs fastest, but DVD-RW is more compatible. |
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August 2004
Amanda C. Kooser |
Tech Buzz 08/04 DVD burning, digital password storage, and more. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2004
Jeremy A. Kaplan |
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Chemistry World
February 22, 2006
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Update: Europe Gets Hot and Bothered Over Sun Cream Labelling A month after international health experts queried any link between sun protection products and the incidence of melanoma, the European Union is side-stepping the whole issue, at least regarding occupational safety. |
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
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. |
PC World
March 2003
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Bye-Bye CD-RW? More choices, price drops favor DVD burners. |
PC World
October 3, 2002
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Philips Shows Off Coin-Size Optical Discs Miniature discs can hold 1GB of data, and could replace memory cards in future electronic devices. |
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
May 18, 2004
Don Labriola |
New DVDs Hold More You'll be able to record almost twice as much data on a dual-layer DVD. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
October 30, 2009
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7 Saber-Dueling, Phaser-Blasting Hollywood Laser Myths These sci-fi scenes may look cool on film, but real science tells a different story. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2004
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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. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
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Transceivers to Conquer the Terahertz Frontier New ICs harness the untamed terahertz band |
PC World
November 8, 2002
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Battle Brewing Over Successor to DVD Upcoming technologies boost optical disc storage capacity to 50GB, but the industry could be divided by rival standards. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2005
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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. |
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January 2006 |
High-Power Single-Mode Industrial Yb Fiber Lasers OZ Optics is offering a series of ytterbium fiber lasers for industrial, medical, and other applications. |
PC World
October 2003
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MIA: Top-Speed DVD Media Faster drives, but where are the discs? |
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. |
Scientific American
August 2005
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Making Light of Silicon Scientists at UCLA and Intel have obtained coherent photons of light from silicon. This low cost alternative to "exotic" semiconductor materials currently used as lasers will pave the way for many technological advances. |
PC World
July 2004
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DVD's Next Big Leaps DVD is picking up speed and storage capacity--but format wars and high prices may mean a wait for the most advanced new technologies. |
PC Magazine
June 23, 2008
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Video Screen Capture Record what's on your computer screen onto a VHS tape, DVD, or hard drive. |
BusinessWeek
June 4, 2007
Peter Burrows |
Is This Really The Next Big Thing? Ultra-fast lasers have enormous promise - if more commercial uses can be unlocked. |
InternetNews
August 30, 2007
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Optical Storage Aims for Enterprise Acceptance Blue-laser optical storage offers high capacity, long shelf life and cost savings. So why isn't it catching on in enterprise storage environments? |
Technology Research News
December 1, 2004
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Pure Silicon Laser Debuts Researchers have made a prototype laser from silicon. The laser is tunable, meaning it can lase in a range of wavelengths, or colors, and it works at room temperature. |
Home Theater
March 5, 2008
Mark Fleischmann |
Toshiba Ponders Next Move How does Toshiba plan to move forward in the wake of HD DVD's demise? The company's CEO says improved DVD upconversion is among the strategies to be pursued. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2008
Monica Heger |
Laser Cinema, Coming Someday to a Theater Near You--Maybe Engineers in China have built a laser digital cinema projector |
Entrepreneur
October 2001
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Now on DVD! Chances are, you love the recordable CD drives in your office. But if you have a lot of data to juggle, it's time to add a recordable DVD drive to the lineup -- or, even better, a new PC with one already installed... |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2009
Jean Kumagai |
Winner: Quantum Leap Quantum-dot lasers from Japan's QD Laser will make high-speed "fiber to the home" networks simpler, cheaper, and more power-efficient |
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Fukushima disaster has not raised cancer risks, says UN UN scientists have concluded that the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster is unlikely to push up cancer rates in Japan. |
National Defense
April 2006 |
Green Laser Device Slows Aggressive Drivers The eye-safe laser is said to slow belligerent drivers speeding by military checkpoints by 60 to 80 percent. |
Popular Mechanics
October 22, 2008
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On Fringe, Radioactivity is Real, But Cures are Junk Science Radiation experts give their opinion on the mad science of this television show. |
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Our Top 5 Tech Stocks For 2011: IPG Photonics The company's fiber lasers are gobbling up market share in a hurry. |
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The Laser at 50 It's the golden anniversary of this fundamental technology |
Home Theater
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Is 3-Layer HD DVD Backward Compatible? The DVD Forum has approved a new triple-layer HD DVD with capacity of 51 gigabytes, but it remains uncertain whether the new disc will play on existing HD DVD hardware. |
