Contents: March 2001 edition

17 Jun 2002

The search for new life

The success of a space mission searching for new life outside our solar system depends on Europe's optics community solving some difficult engineering problems.

Free-space lasers solve last-mile bottleneck

Cities around the world are beginning to use roof-top systems to solve the last-mile bandwidth bottleneck that many network operators experience. Ian Murphy reports.

A bright future for flexible displays

Europe is up there with the US and Japan in the development of flexible organic displays. Rob van den Berg looks at the work of the pioneer firms in this field.

Blue diodes infiltrate the domestic market

Blue and white light-emitting diodes have come a long way in the last two years. Roy Szweda looks at the developments that have been taking place around the world. The first edition of the European Optical Society's new-look newsletter features articles from members of the Swiss Society for Optics and Microscopy, which is one of 15 societies that make up EOS. News Applications
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