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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. |
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December 2009
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How to Stop a Hurricane With Cold Water Intellectual Ventures is in the business of chasing wild scientific ideas and finding out how feasible they are. This article describes their latest project -- how to stop hurricanes with cold water -- and future projects. |
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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 |
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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. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2007
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T-Rays vs. Terrorists Terahertz radiation lets security screeners find bombs and weapons wherever they're hidden. |
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. |
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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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2004
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The Airborne Laser: It's Huge, it Flies, and it Blows up Missles The world's largest directed-energy weapon, the U.S. Defense Department's Airborne Laser, employs hundreds of complicated optics and several lasers to track down and destroy incoming missiles, and it is expected to be deployed by the end of the decade. |
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Laser Safety Guidelines for understanding the dangers of lasers and the importance of working with them safely... |
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October 5, 2004
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Know Your Camera This article will help explain your camera's settings and the magic going on between the camera's optics and electronics. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2007
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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
January 2008 |
Products Adimec introduces OPAL-1000m, fast 1-megapixel cameras... Impulse adds two members to the Titan range of connectors... Cedip offers thermal surveillance system for military applications... Sensor fusion in a HUD... etc. |
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. |
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
March 2008
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Shortwave Infrared Laser Detection and Tracking on the Battlefield As warfare modernizes, improved pointing and targeting while remaining covert to the enemy from far away is critical to ensuring success. New shortwave infrared (SWIR) technology is helping to meet these critical goals. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
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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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Itchy For more than 100 years, a swat team of brilliant scientists, pest-control shock troops, and eggheads with bizarre schemes have been waging a global war against mosquitoes. Why are the pests still winning? |
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January 20, 2004
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Look Into The Camera New technologies can dramatically improve your photos. We discuss developments that will help with image artifacts, inaccurate color, poor contrast, and much more. |
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December 22, 2004
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Troubleshooting Your Images Learning to correct digital-imaging problems now may prove vital when the shot really counts. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2010
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The Laser at 50 It's the golden anniversary of this fundamental technology |
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. |
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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. |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2006
David Cardinal |
More Cool Digital Camera Projects Make a pinhole camera, and discover the secrets of under-water, macro, and infrared photography. |
Popular Mechanics
June 26, 2009
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6 Wildest Bug Zappers You Can Buy Now Assuming that you're not buying a zapper for the sheer pleasure of watching a bug explode, there are many alternatives to buying an electric zapper. |
National Defense
August 2010
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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. |
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. |
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August 2001
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Beam On Want your own private fiber node? Has Novalux got an extended-cavity surface-emitting laser for you! |
Popular Mechanics
June 2006
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October 2008
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Laser Cinema, Coming Someday to a Theater Near You--Maybe Engineers in China have built a laser digital cinema projector |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2012
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Pixels: Size Matters A camera's sensor area, not its pixel count, determines the quality of a photograph |
PC Magazine
July 11, 2007
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How We Test Digital Cameras The secret of testing digital cameras... Canon PowerShot A630... Casio compact Exilim EX-S770... Samsung NV10... Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3... Canon PowerShot SD1000... Olympus Stylus 770 SW... Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T100... |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2006
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A Tabletop UV Microscope With the recent demonstration of a high-resolution ultraviolet microscope that fits on a tabletop, semiconductor manufacturing and basic science researchers alike may soon have a far easier time getting the images they need. |
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... |
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March 13, 2007
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How to buy: DSLR cameras To get high-quality images and to maintain maximum creative control over your photos, you'll need a digital single-lens reflex camera. Here are some tips on selecting the right one for you. |
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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. |
PC Magazine
July 11, 2007
Terry Sullivan |
Buying Guide: Point-and-Shoot Digicams Before you buy a camera for your next vacation, here are the eight questions to consider... Canon PowerShot A630... Casio Exilim EX-S770... Samsung NV10... |
National Defense
January 2011
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Beam Me Up Some Power To give the remotely operated planes better endurance in the skies, scientists are developing battlefield lasers to recharge the batteries in flight. |
PC Magazine
September 2, 2003 |
Snap Happy Style, simplicity, and smashing picture quality put the fun into digital photography as never before. Think compact and you can't go wrong. |
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Digital Camera Blockbuster Don't believe the hype. The right digital camera for you might not be the one with the most megapixels or the heftiest price tag. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2004 |
Briefs Lasers to be a $3 billion market by 2008... Department of Defense chooses Sensors Unlimited to develop high-speed camera... JPSA Laser announces laser refurbishment services... |
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
September 2004 |
Briefs LED photometric detector meets CIE 127-1997... Laser nanosensor for measurement applications... All-in-focus high-speed microscopy camera... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2005
Adrian Carter |
New technology advances applications for high-power fiber lasers Since introduced by Nufern as a standard product in late 2002, LMA fibers have enabled a power-scaling revolution, and have produced near-diffraction-limited beam quality at powers approaching 1 kW and slope efficiencies of around 75 percent. |
PC Magazine
June 8, 2004
Grotta & Wiener |
More Than Just Megapixels Image size is important in selecting a digital camera, but it's far from the complete picture. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
Chris A. Mack |
Seeing Double Someday, chips might be made with X-rays. Until then, double-patterning lithography will be the only game in town. |
PC Magazine
May 4, 2004
David Cardinal |
Cool Camera Projects From taking product shots for eBay to shooting the Moon, here are some ways to put your digital camera to creative use. |
