LaLuz Applies for Technology Maturation Fund
LaLuz Technologies has applied for a 2006 Technology Maturation Fund grant through Technology Ventures Corporation.

LaLuz Technologies' Sister Comapny Achieves WBENC Certification
Entereza, a sister company of LaLuz Technologies, achieved WBENC certification. The WBENC certification for women-owned businesses is one of the most widely recognized and respected certifications in the nation.

Today, no small reasonably priced system can detect clear air turbulence (vortex, wind shear, microbursts, gust fronts, turbulence, and crosswinds). These weather phenomena present tremendous danger. In addition, existing systems do not report micrometeorology, including the wind speed and direction at intervals as small as 100 feet. The need is applicable to launch and landing sites for airplanes, helicopters, UAVs, and missiles. Technology has advanced to a point where it is now possible to provide more accurate wind turbulence detection capabilities at a lower price. LaLuz is poised to address this need.

The LaLuz technology modulates a laser beam in such as way that it is compared to a very stable reference-an atomic clock. The returned beam is compared to the same clock. Therefore, the stable element in the system is the clock, not the laser as is the case with competitive lidar systems. This is the specific technology that we refer to as "Profiler." The details of our Profiler technology is a trade secret.

The Profiler laboratory prototype is located in the Entereza optics laboratory and is an operating system. At this time, the LaLuz Technologies Profiler team is engaged in a phased approach to completing the laboratory proof-of-principal demonstration. We anticipate that the prototype test series will be completed within 6 the next months.