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...HighWave Optical Technologies Public company based in Lannion, France CEO: Eric Delevaque What it does: Makes specialty fibers, passive components and Erbium-doped amplifiers for the deployment of high-speed optical telecommunications infrastructure Why it is hot: It was ranked as the No. 1 tech ipo in Europe last year by Tornado-Insider.com and in the fourth quarter posted a 1467% increase in revenue over the previous year www.highwave-tech.com...
...Teem Photonics Private company based in Meylan, France CEO: Antoine Kevorkian What it does: Produces highly compact components for fiber networks, such as Erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers and splitters Why it is hot: One of the first companies to recognize the need for amplifier arrays, which generate enormous savings on networking costs within cities www.teemphotonics.com
...prevent wrinkles from forming, liposuction on her stomach and thighs, fat transferred from her behind to her face--and lots of laser work. She's had pulse lasers to erase broken blood vessels in her cheeks, diode lasers to remove the hair on her upper lip and an Erbium laser to zap the crow's-feet around her eyes. "It's unbelievable. It took 10 minutes, and then you go home," says Bank, whose husband David, a dermatologist, did the work. "No hospital, no anesthesia, no stitches. It's just a little beam of light and it's gone...
...other hand, there's Carol Pighini, 43, a mother of three from Florida. Bothered by some broken capillaries on her face, she picked a dermatologist in Tampa through an ad for gentler Erbium YAG laser treatments. To her horror, her face blistered for three days afterward, her eyes were swollen shut, and pits formed in her skin. "When the laser started hurting, I asked what was happening, and they said they had 'turned it up.'" She says with a sigh, "All this because I couldn't stand wearing makeup." Lancer, the Beverly Hills dermatologist, is now removing the damage with...
...good skin-care follow-up, which usually involves great globs of Vaseline or special creams and a mask. Patients can be left raw and oozing for weeks or, even worse, end up looking like the Phantom of the Opera. Skin heals faster (often in a week) with the newer Erbium lasers, which are cooler and can be used on the thinner surface of the neck and chest as well as the face, as long as the doctor exercises caution. Yet even these supposedly gentler lasers can sting and, in inexperienced hands, burn and scar if they penetrate too deep. Worse...
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