SPIE Photonics West—the world’s leading photonics, laser, and biomedical optics event. 2010 is the golden anniversary of the laser. This year Photonics West was taking place in Moscone Center in San Francisco. Del Mar Photonics www.dmphotonics.com announced several new products at the Photonics West 2010. Scenes from Goldfinger. Wikipedia: Goldfinger (1964) is the third spy film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title character along with Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and was the first of four Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton. The story has Bond following gold smuggler Auric Goldfinger, who plans a nuclear detonation inside the Fort Knox gold depository. The film was the first official Bond blockbuster and made cinematic history by recouping its production costs in record-setting time, despite a budget equal to that of the two preceding films combined. Goldfinger was also the first Bond film to use a pop star to sing the theme song during the titles, a hallmark that would follow for every Bond film since except On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Bond sneaks into Goldfinger’s plant and overhears him talking to a Red Chinese agent about “Operation Grand Slam.” Leaving, he encounters Tilly as she is about to …