With total funding of EUR14.7 million, the So-Light project brings together eleven German companies and research institutes to work closely together on OLED lighting and displays.

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The first broadband stimulus grants and loans made under the Recovery Act indicate that the agencies responsible for those programs are looking to fiber-optic technology to meet the goals of job creation and economic development, according to the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council.

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An emerging optical technology that can potentially be used to observe rapidly changing scenes is successfully demonstrated at wavelengths from 8.4 to 11.6μm.

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The motion of a single atom in an optical trap has been controlled by the use of a fast feedback logic loop developed at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) by scientists who also showed that the detection of just a few photons is all that’s needed to keep the atom under control.

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Improved device designs will boost the efficiency of white organic light emitters to exceed that of conventional lighting sources.

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A cross-disciplinary EU-funded project, NEMIS, was set up to study the problem and develop a working model of a new type of optical sensor based on recent advances in laser technology and photonics.

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LIFT -Leadership In FibreLaser Technology, is a collaborative, large-scale integrated project funded by the NMP Directorate in the 7th Framework Programmeof the European Commission. The 16 Million Euro project will expand the limits of advanced materials processing applications through a new generation of high-brilliance fibre-based lasers.

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Against this background, two European funded research projects, ILO and OLAS, were set up to explore and identify more efficient ways to generate light from organic thin films. These are organic because they are carbon-based plastics, and the material is processed into a very thin film of a micron or less which is deposited onto a surface, or substrate – in this case a silicon wafer.

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