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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 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 July 14, 2004	Laser tweezer traps nanotubes The researchers have showed that it is possible to pattern clusters of nanotubes into configurations that are likely to have near-term applications as chemical, biological and physical sensors.
Technology Research News November 19, 2003	Liquid Crystal Tunes Fiber Researchers have combined photonic crystal and liquid crystal to make an optical fiber whose properties can change according to temperature. The combination allows the researchers to change the properties of the light inside the fiber.
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.
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.
Technology Research News February 23, 2005 Kimberly Patch	Springs simplify micromirror arrays Adaptive optics correct light waves that have been distorted, usually by the atmosphere, by bouncing them off a mirror that rapidly changes shape to produce clearer images or signals.
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 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.
Technology Research News July 2, 2003	Tiny T splits light Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have designed a compact photonic crystal multiplexer that splits a lightwave into two slightly different colors.
Technology Research News March 10, 2004	Patterned fiber makes tiny scope Researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia have found a way to make an endoscope that's a dozen times smaller than today's 10-millimeter versions. The technology should make it possible to image areas that are inaccessible today.
Technology Research News February 9, 2005	Lens design promises tight spots A new photonic crystal lens can focus near-field light to a spot one-quarter of the light's wavelength. The device can be used to make smaller, faster computer chips and memory. It could also be used in super-resolution microscopes.
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 March 24, 2004	Irregular layout sharpens light Aperiodic photonic crystal could improve devices that shape, detect and filter light, including communications devices like photodetectors, demultiplexers, which sort wavelengths of light, and channel drop filters, which filter out different wavelengths.
Technology Research News July 28, 2004 Eric Smalley	Photonic chips go 3D Computer chips made from photonic crystal promise better communications equipment and ultrafast, all-optical computers
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.
Chemistry World January 9, 2012 Philip Robinson	Nanoear listens in on cellular motoring Just as the macroscopic world is filled with the rattle and hum of machinery, the actions of molecular and cellular machinery also produce tiny vibrations that resonate throughout the microscopic world.
Technology Research News November 19, 2003 Eric Smalley	Switch promises optical chips Computers have historically been electronic rather than photonic because lightwaves, while great for sending signals over long distances, are controlled by equipment that has proven difficult to shrink to computer chip scale. The rise of photonic crystals promises to narrow the gap.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Air Force Pushes Optical Data Network Air Force leaders granted optoelectronics company Srico $750,000 for a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to develop a high-speed optical network.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John McHale	Purdue researchers develop material for better optics, communications "Negative index of refraction" in the wavelength of light used for telecommunications could lead to better communications and imaging technologies.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 Eric Smalley	Movie Captures Trapped Light Slow light, once better understood, could be used to improve devices like sensors and optical communications equipment. Researchers have moved the field forward with a way to directly observe the phenomenon.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003 Eric Smalley	Crystal fiber goes distance Making fiber-optic lines that are hollow is one step toward more efficient telecommunications. Making lines that are full of holes goes further. Lots of regularly spaced holes bend light, which keeps it on the straight and narrow.
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 November 5, 2003 Eric Smalley	Crystal bends light back Being able to bend light backwards is extremely useful. This negative refraction is controversial in physics circles and has only been demonstrated using artificial materials containing metal loops. It turns out that a common natural crystal has harbored this capability all along.
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.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Paniccia & Koehl	The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing
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Technology Research News June 16, 2004	Scheme Optimizes Light Chips Researchers have borrowed a design tool developed for mechanical engineering to improve the efficiency of nano-size optical waveguides.
Chemistry World November 17, 2014 James Urquhart	Beetle behind breath test for bank notes Simply breathing on money could soon reveal if it's the real deal or counterfeit thanks to a beetle-inspired ink that reversibly changes color in response to humidity.
Technology Research News June 18, 2003 Eric Smalley	Chip sorts colors The simple concept of proportionality is the key to a significant advance in the emerging field of integrated optics -- chips that control light rather than electricity.
Chemistry World November 11, 2011 Charlie Quigg	Invisible ink for the 21st century Scientists from China have developed a new lithographic printing technique to layer a pattern onto photonic paper.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008	Global Market for Photonic Crystals Set for High Growth Through 2013 The market segments are applications of light emission, information technology, optical sensing, energy conversion, light energy delivery, and other applications.
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Mark Anderson	Two Steps Toward a Terabit Internet Nonlinear optics tricks bring terabit-per-second bandwidth within reach
Chemistry World March 10, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Cell's Protein Factory Seen in Action Researchers have observed one of nature's most remarkable molecular machines in action.
Chemistry World December 20, 2011 Simon Hadlington	pH adjustable protein micro-lenses Scientists in China have used a common protein to create tiny optical lenses, a few tens of micrometres in diameter, whose focus can be adjusted simply by changing the pH of the surrounding medium.
Technology Research News May 18, 2005	Thin Silver Sheet Makes Superlens Researchers have fashioned a superlens from a thin sheet of silver that resolves images as small as 60 nanometers using 365-nanometer light.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005	Optoelectronics In Brief Photonic Products to offer Panasonic aspherical lenses... Opto Diode completes California-based LED wafer fab... etc.