Postings from October, 2006

Advanced Photonix to explore feasibility of terahertz technology for military applications

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Electro-optics engineers are determining the feasibility of using terahertz (THz) technology for defense applications under SBIR contracts with the U.S. Navy and Air Force.

LEOS Annual 2006

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

LEOS 2006 is the 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society. This year the conference will be held from 29 October to 2 November in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

A pixel worth a thousand words – The Economist

Friday, October 27th, 2006

A new type of camera that could detect explosives and other hidden items

NESC Discipline Expert – Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) — NASA Langley Research Center

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

The Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) Expert uses non-damaging interrogating energy to characterize properties, detect damage, or assess the integrity of materials, structures and systems.

Faculty Position, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Division, University of Michigan

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Areas of particular interest include MEMS, RF circuits/systems, VLSI systems, microwave/terahertz devices, energy (control or electronic aspects), signal processing, ultrafast optics and nanophotonics.

Experts create invisibility cloak

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

A US-British team of scientists has successfully tested a cloak of invisibility in the laboratory.

Terahertz technology safer, more effective than X-ray

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Terahertz frequencies, which are higher than microwaves but lower than potentially harmful infrared rays, are being studied for their implications in investigative searches.

EOS Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Optics: From Sources to Guided Waves

Monday, October 16th, 2006

This conference will address various aspects of basics and applications in modern nonlinear optics. Paris (Porte de Versailles), France. October 16th 2006 – October 19th 2006.

Multicolor Scientific Opportunities at CIRCE and the ALS

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

This workshop will explore scientific directions with multi-color spectroscopies covering wavelengths from the terahertz, infrared, visible, VUV and soft X-ray.

Nobel Prize for THz Cosmic Background Work

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

George F. Smoot of LBNL and UC Berkeley, and John C. Mather of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, have been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.”