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Optical Surfaces Optics Help ESO FEROS Spectrograph Find New Star Optical Surfaces Ltd. has provided the 'Hot Star Group' led by Prof. Bernhard Wolf at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg (LSW) in Germany with a series of very high precision optics that have been used in the Fibre-fed Extended Range Optical Spectrograph (FEROS) at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in La Silla, Chile. Read Article

LIDAR System Uses Optical Surfaces Off-Axis Beam Expander to Monitor Inner City Atmospheric Pollution Optical Surfaces Ltd. have collaborated with the Remote Sensing Group at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (D.E.R.A., Malvern, England) and the Civil Engineering Department of Salford University (Manchester, England) to develop high performance off-axis beam expanders for integration into a new generation of pulsed coherent LIDAR systems. Read Article

Optical Surfaces Radiometer Optics Help Long Term Climate Monitoring Optical Surfaces Ltd. have provided the Space Science department at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), Didcot, England, with three identical 110mm diameter Off-axis Paraboloids for use in three generations of their Along Track Scanning Radiometers (ATSR). Read Article

Fast Focusing Parabolic Mirror from Optical Surfaces Helps Vulcan Laser Achieve Interaction With Atomic Nuclei

JAERI Selects Optical Surfaces to Supply Critical Optical Components for X-Ray Laser

TopSat Earth Observation Satellite Benefits from Optical Surfaces Aspheric Mirrors Optical Surfaces Ltd. (Kenley, UK) has supplied three high precision aspheric mirrors that form key elements at the heart of the advanced optical system to be used by the novel low-cost TopSat Earth Observation satellite. Read Article

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ADC to Display FTTP/FTTH Solutions at RIITA Conference and Exposition ADC (NASDAQ: ADCT), today announced that it will feature its portfolio of fiber-to-the-x (FTTX) solutions at the Rural Iowa Independent Telephone Association (RIITA) Conference and Exposition, March 9-11, at the Polk County Convention Complex in Des Moines, Iowa, Booth #213. Full Story

Kenneth Cole, Marcolin Renew Licensing Agreement for Prescription Frames and Sunglasses Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. (NYSE:KCP), the New York-based fashion house, and the Marcolin Group, a leader in the eyewear industry, announce the advance renewal of their licensing agreement for production and distribution of prescription frames and sunglasses under the Kenneth Cole New York and Kenneth Cole Reaction labels through 2014. Full Story

Multivendor Demonstration Marks an Important Step in Advancing 100G Transmission

Broadcom Acquires Teknovus, Supplier of EPON Chipsets and Software Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Teknovus, a leading supplier of Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) chipsets and software. Full Story

In-Depth Analysis of Photocopiers in the U.S. Market

Picometrix and u2t Introduce CCRx MSA for Fiber Optic Receivers Picometrix, an Advanced Photonix company and u²t Photonics have completed the CCRx (Compact Coherent Receiver) multisource agreement (MSA) which defines an industry standard, cost-effective form factor for coherent fiber optic receivers for use in both 100G and 40G DP-QPSK telecommunication systems. Full Story

KDDI Deploys ADVA FSP 3000 Platform to Deliver Reliable Enterprise Solution ADVA Optical Networking today announced that KDDI Corporation (KDDI), one of Japan’s largest communications service providers, has deployed the ADVA FSP 3000 Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) solution as the platform for delivery of its high-availability enterprise solution called “Managed WDM Service”. Full Story

Selex Galileo Acquires Lasertel Lasertel today announced that the planned acquisition by SELEX Galileo Inc. reported in November has now been completed. Full Story

Tamron's Vari-Focal Lenses Delivers Enhanced Resolution Performance Tamron Co., Ltd. (headquarters: Saitama City; President: Morio Ono) today announced the development of two 1/3"-format 3.0-8mm F/1.0 Vari-Focal lenses that are fast and IR-Corrected while supporting 650 TV-lines resolution performance. Full Story

Ricoh's New Digital Imaging System Ideal for High-Volume Environments

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Photonics: Principles and Practices Since the invention of the laser, our fascination with the photon has led to one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing fields of technology. An explosion of new materials, devices, and applications makes it more important than ever to stay current with the latest advances. Surveying the field from fundamental concepts to state-of-the-art developments, Photonics: Principles and Practices builds a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of photonics from the basics of light waves to fiber optics and lasers.

Handbook of Optical Metrology: Principles and Applications The field of optical metrology offers a wealth of both practical and theoretical accomplishments, and can cite any number of academic papers recording such. However, while several books covering specific areas of optical metrology do exist, until the pages herein were researched, written, and compiled, the field lacked for a comprehensive handbook, one providing an overview of optical metrology that covers practical applications as well as fundamentals.

Solid State and Quantum Theory for Optoelectronics Solid State and Quantum Theory for Optoelectronics presents a logical progression of material from the mathematics of linear algebra and Hilbert space to fundamental and perturbed solutions of the Schrödinger wave equation to multi-particle systems, second quantization, and Feynman Path integrals. This book provides applications to bonding, energy band theory including tight binding and k-p theory, electrical transport and density of states, and tensor effective mass. Covering recent developments in quantum computing and teleportation, it also includes a discussion of statistical mechanics and entropy to deduce the Fermi-Dirac and Boltzman distributions.

Optical Methods of Measurement: Wholefield Techniques, Second Edition Optical Methods of Measurement: Wholefield Techniques, Second Edition provides a comprehensive collection of wholefield optical measurement techniques for engineering applications. Along with the reorganization of contents, this edition includes a new chapter on optical interference, new material on nondiffracting and singular beams and their applications, and updated bibliography and additional reading sections.

Handbook of Optical Sensing of Glucose in Biological Fluids and Tissues Although noninvasive, continuous monitoring of glucose concentration in blood and tissues is one of the most challenging areas in medicine, a wide range of optical techniques has recently been designed to help develop robust noninvasive methods for glucose sensing. For the first time in book form, the Handbook of Optical Sensing of Glucose in Biological Fluids and Tissues analyzes trends in noninvasive optical glucose sensing and discusses its impact on tissue optical properties.

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