- Kirkwood now home to new company Boston Laser SLI
KIRKWOOD - Boston Laser, Inc., formed in January 2000 by Aharon Meytahl, has acquired the Semiconductor Laser International (SLI) Corporation and moved its headquarters to Kirkwood. The new company is now known as Boston Laser SLI. "Boston Laser's entrance to this market brings new life to a local business," says ......
- Spectra-Physics announces major expansion in
China.
Spectra-Physics (Mountain View, CA, www. spectra-physics), a desiger, developer, manufacturer and distributor of solid-state and high-power semiconductor lasers, gas lasers and ultra-fast systems, has announced a major expansion of its operations in China with the creation of a new subsidiary that provides in-country sales, service and support from its Beijing ......
- The Brighter Side of Semiconductors
The vast majority of activity in the semiconductor industry revolves around silicon. However, the other semiconductors are not to be overlooked. “Compound semiconductors are like salt is to food,” said Professor Manijeh Razeghi, director of the Center for Quantum Devices at Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Each play an important role, ......
- Organic semiconductor lasers go electric
Organic-crystal lasers require light energy from other lasers to pump or excite the crystals into emitting the desired coherent wavelength. At least that's what researchers thought until recently when a team at Bell Labs demonstrated the first electrically powered organic laser made from tetracene, a semiconductive crystal. Tetracene's four connected ......
- Vertical lasers could cut telecom network costs
The cost of high-speed fiber-optic connections could come down thanks to engineers at Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, N.M. They have developed the first 1.3-(mu) electrically pumped, vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) grown on gallium arsenide. This new laser will be simpler and less expensive to build than standard edge-emitting ......
- New laser could cut costs of fiber optics connections
Albuquerque, N.M.-A new 1.3-micron, electrically pumped vertical-cavity surface-- emitting laser (VCSEL) grown on gallium arsenide could potentially reduce the cost of high-speed fiber optics connections, said researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories. Working through a cooperative research and development agreement with Cielo Communications Inc., Sandia developed ......
- Laser Boost
Osram Opto Semiconductors ( www.osram-os.com ) has developed an optical pumped semiconductor (OPS) disk laser prototype that puts out 8W of 980-nm optical power from 19W of pumping power. This is an order of magnitude more efficient than previous semiconductor lasers. One key to success is highly effective heat dissipation ......