News Watch

• Two Dimensional Photonic Band Gap Defect Mode Laser
• Under Pressure, CO₂ Gives Harmonic Surprise
• 3D Camera With No Lens
• Physicists Tame a Single Photon
• Laser Generated X-rays Watch Atoms Move
• Ultrastable CO₂ Laser Trapping of Lithium Fermions
• Fractals are Discovered in Laser Modes
• Laser Drill Reduces the Pain of Heart Disease

Article

• Optics and Lasers 2000

• Fast Scan Submillimeter Spectroscopy Technique

  S Albert, D T Petkie, R P A Bettens, S P Belov, and F C De Lucia

• Reduction in the Speed of Light

Arup Banerjee

• Table Top Terawatt Lasers

  Boby Joseph

Laser Pioneer Passes Away

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• Dr. I.Mukhopadhyay, Editor

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