UK government awards police forces in England funding to purchase 37 laser scanners to ease traffic congestion caused by road closures.

Venture-backed US firm gets 510(k) approval for its femtosecond laser / optical coherence tomography combination system.

European Commission launches green paper and consultation on solid-state lighting, with vice president Neelie Kroes backing a major expansion.

Infrared specialist will supply up to 22 mercury cadmium telluride detectors for next generation of Meteosat imagers.

Fourteen of the UK company's high-end CCD devices will feature in an ambitious new astronomical project.

Twin IR detectors mounted under an airplane's wings can spot dangerous ash particles from 100 kilometers away.

'VICTUS' platform, which performs both cataract and refractive procedures, set to ship by year-end.

US Army orders more than 12,500 of the Redmond, WA, firm's diverging green lasers for initial delivery, with more to follow.

A 500kW Soitec installation will provide electricity to the United Nations' latest climate-change conference in Durban, South Africa.

A $2M development led by Lockheed Martin will commercialize autonomous vehicle for inspecting deep-sea oil and gas infrastructure.

Winning Austrian development team and its partner expect to launch a commercial scanner next year.

SiOnyx says that texturing with a picosecond-pulsed laser boosts silicon cell efficiency and improves production uniformity.