Chief Editor Stephen G. Anderson and Senior Editor John Wallace bring you the latest in photonics news in our monthly News Nuggets series. ; Catch up on the latest news with Chief Editor Stephen G. Anderson and Senior Editor John Wallace.; Anthony Johnson heads the Center for Advanced Studies in Photonics Research (CASPR) at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD. Johnson and members of his team describe the center's femtosecond laser.; LFW Chief Editor Steve Anderson and ILS Chief Editor David Belforte report on opening day of Laser, World of Photonics in Munich, Germany.; Pangolin's LASORB provides electrostatic discharge protection for all types of laser diodes.; Gordon McKenzie or Michelson Diagnostics discusses the Michelson OCT system and its use for skin imaging.; A collaboration between Andor Technologies, Fairchild Imaging, and PCO, newly developed "scientific CMOS" offers high-resolution rapid imaging with low noise and wide dynamic range.; Chris Risser and Stefano Noto discuss Universal Laser Systems' line of CO2 marking and engraving lasers for OEMs; CO2 lasers; laser engraving; laser marking; OEM lasers; Universal Laser Systems; Optimax has the expertise to make a broad range of custom optics with high tolerances and with fast delivery times.; Tom Hausken updates his market forecast during CLEO 2009.; Dr. Alexander Laskin provides an overview of MolTech and discusses the company's beam shaping optics products.; beam shaping; Laser Munich; MolTech; optics; Herman Chui of Newport describes the Alliant fiber laser and other lasers introduced by Newport at Laser Munich.; Catch up on the latest news with Chief Editor Stephen G. Anderson and Senior Editor John Wallace.; Jason Eichenhholz, CTO, highlights some of Ocean Optics' new products at Laser Munich.; ILS Chief Editor David Belforte and LFW Chief Editor Steve Anderson report on day 1 of Laser World of Photonics in Munich, Germany; economy; industrial lasers; Laser Munich; Laser World of Photonics; View some of the highlights from the exhibit floor of CLEO 2009 held June 2-4 in Baltimore, MD.; Francois Salin, Vice President & CTO of Eolite Systems, describes the Octopus Multi Fiber Rod Type Fiber Laser.; RenewableEnergyWorld.com talks with Chris Anderson from Borrego Solar about his off grid home in Peterborough, New Hampshire.; bioenergy; solar energy; IPG Photonics, KMLabs, Orbits Lightwave, and TOPTICA Photonics received honorable mentions in the 2009 PhAST/Laser Focus World Innovations Awards announced at CLEO 2009.; Animation of the Linac Coherent Light Source at the Stanford Linear Accelerator in Menlo Park, CA.; Karsten Konig, CEO of JenLab Group, explains his company's system for high-resultion cellular imaging of skin.; Fedor Karpushko, CEO, describes how Klastech's light sources are able to provide high efficiency with low power.; LFW_ CLEO09_newport; Stuart Woods of Coherent describes new lasers introduced at Laser, World of Photonics 2009.; The American Physical Society (APS) and The Optical Society (OSA) are organizing LaserFest, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the laser through a series of events and programs in 2010.; A pco.dimax camera from PCO Imaging (Kelheim, Germany) captures toy cars breaking through a small brick wall. The 1920x1080-pixel-resolution capture was recorded at 200 frames/s and is played at 25 frames/s. ; The OPTOmism conference, presented by OIDA, begins on May 18 in Santa Clara, CA, with an Executive and Investor Forum, and continues May 19-20 with a comprehensive Technical Conference.; Red wine spilling from a falling wine glass is captured by the high-speed Weisscam HS-1 from Weisscam (Munich, Germany) at 950 frames/s. The Weisscam HS-2 has frame rates up to 4000 frames/s.; UCLA researchers? novel, continuously-running camera, based on photonic time stretch, captures images at 6 million frames per second.; 6 million fps; 6 million frames per second; camera; ccd; CMOS; optical; optics; photonic time stretch; UCLA; UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science; University of California-Los Angeles; World's fastest camera; Watch an animation of the beamline at the National Ignition facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Construction of the NIF was recently completed, and the official dedication of the facility is scheduled for May 29.; David Clarke of Litron Lasers (Rugby, England) demonstrates the ruggedness of his company?s lasers, but in a way that will make any laser engineer cringe. ; Laser Focus World; lasers; The OL 490 Agile Light Source redefines existing technologies and unlocks new capabilities for programmable spectral sources. It produces high-resolution spectra via a flexible liquid light guide from 380 to 780nm with under 5 nm FWH bandwidth peaks.; OptoIQ Laser videos are aggregated video content from ten optoelectronics related PennWell websites.