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Technology Research News March 12, 2003	Lasers tweeze every which way Researchers from the University of Glasgow in Scotland have found a way to use a pair of laser beams to rotate an object in three dimensions, turning it like a ball rather than a wheel.
Industrial Physicist Eric Lerner	Briefs Penetrating the fog... Plasma self-organization... Stronger than spider silk... Slow light... etc.
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.
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.
PC Magazine October 11, 2006	Bits & Bites v25n19 Intel and researchers have developed a silicon chip that can produce laser beams.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley	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.
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 August 13, 2014 Andy Extance	Photon pinball identifies chemicals from afar US scientists have pushed the range at which chemicals can be remotely identified beyond a kilometer by turning the samples themselves into lasers.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 John Keller	Air Force taps Johns Hopkins to integrate high-speed laser communications links The bidirectional optical interface will bridge data-link terminals from two U.S. defense and communications companies via a free-space laser communications link.
Technology Research News March 23, 2005	Microdroplet makes mighty microscope Researchers from the University of Maryland have found a way to reach nanometer-scale resolution using something called far-field optics.
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.
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 July 16, 2003	Jet-laser tandem prints gold Researchers have found a way to print gold structures. The researchers suspended gold nanoparticles, which have a lower melting point then bulk gold, in a solution and used a modified ink-jet printer to print patterns of the solution onto a surface.
Technology Research News July 27, 2005 Kimberly Patch	Fingernails store data Researchers from the University of Tokushima and Hokkaido University have demonstrated that it is possible to read data written into a human fingernail using a laser. The data could be later read for security purposes. The project timeline is 3 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.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 Jim Reeves	Industry View: Have bandwidth, will travel Technological advancements such as 'double conjugated adaptive optics' are leading to man-portable, far-reaching, low-power laser communication systems that are perfectly suited to the military's security-driven battlefield communication requirements.
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.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009	Laser Designator Electro-Optical Sensor to be Restored by Northrop Grumman Military laser experts at the Northrop Grumman Laser Systems are restoring and refurbishing U.S. Army laser systems that can recognize and designate targets for laser guided munitions.
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.
IEEE Spectrum May 2010 Neil Savage	The Laser at 50 It's the golden anniversary of this fundamental technology
National Defense October 2005 Robert H. Williams	Sensor Measures Multiple Cloud Layers An improved laser ceilometer -- which can measure up to four layers of cloud cover from zero to 30,000 feet -- has been unveiled by All Weather Inc. The airport weather sensor relies on advanced signal processing algorithms and eye-safe light detection and ranging optical radar.
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.
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.
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.
Wired November 24, 2008 Erin Biba	Rocket Scientist's Laser Scalpel Targets Individual Cells Researcher Adela Ben-Yakar is developing a laser capable of vaporizing individual cells, one at a time.
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.
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.
InternetNews July 5, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Is Laser The Solution For Hard Drive I/O? Dutch researchers say they can write data up to 100 times faster than current technology, but that's a long way away and may not be the best solution.
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.
Technology Research News April 9, 2003	Biochip moves liquids with heat Researchers from Princeton University have made a microscopic device that uses heat to move, mix and split droplets of liquid. The device could be used in small, battery-operated chemical sensors and hand-held medical testers.
Fast Company March 2010 Erica Westly	Fifty Years of Lasers, by the Numbers The first laser went to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes 50 years ago this month. Here is a look at the data.
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
The Motley Fool September 19, 2006 Jack Uldrich	Intel's New Laser-Like Focus The company's latest silicon chip development could open up exciting new markets. The news offers investors yet another reason to believe Intel remains a sound long-term investment.
Chemistry World November 27, 2014 Megan Tyler	Femtofluidic droplet manipulation now possible We've had microfluidics. We've even had nanofluidics. But now, scientists have gone a step smaller by pushing femtofluidics into the realms of possibility.
Technology Research News 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.
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.
Chemistry World January 5, 2012 Laura Howes	Surfing the Plasmonic Wave Researchers have shown with both spatial and temporal resolution, how the electric field around a nanoparticle changes when the nanoparticle is excited by a laser.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004	Demo Advances Quantum Networking Researchers have transferred information stored in the properties of a cloud of rubidium atoms to the properties of a single photon. The ability to transfer information from atoms to photons is needed for quantum computers.
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson	Game-Changing Laser Communications Ready For Fielding, Vendors Say Sending data with lasers, rather than radio frequencies, has the potential to revolutionize the way the military communicates, proponents of the technology have said.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009	ABL High-Power Laser Weapon Moves Toward Missile Shoot-Down Demonstration Missile defense experts fired the high-power laser aboard the Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft in flight for the first time in August, to move the airborne military laser closer to an actual missile shoot-down demonstration.
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.