Optics & Photonics News

enXco Signs Deal to Supply PV Modules to Suntech Power Holdings

enXco – an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company (PARIS: EEN) announced today that it has entered into a sales agreement with Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), to supply up to 115 megawatts of photovoltaic modules in 2010.

Research Report on Technologies and Markets for Optical Coatings

Optical Coatings: Technologies and Global Markets Covers the global optical coatings market, focusing on optical coatings used in telecommunications, transportation, defense, photography, electronics and medical markets

Cypress Semiconductor Unveils High-Sensitivity, High-Speed CMOS Image Sensor

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY), today introduced a high-sensitivity, high-speed CMOS image sensor targeted for the machine vision market. The new 1.3-megapixel VITA 1300 sensor combines a pipelined and triggered global snapshot shutter with a high frame rate of 150 frames-per-second (fps) for undistorted images and fast readout. The pipelined snapshot shutter capability enables exposure during read-out to reduce motion blur. The sensor also works in a rolling shutter mode with Correlated Double Sampling (CDS) to reduce noise and increase dynamic range. The new VITA 1300 family builds on the success of Cypress’s IBIS5 imagers in the machine vision market, and also addresses barcode scanning, motion monitoring and security applications.

Ampulse Announces Closing of $8 Million Series A Funding

Ampulse Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of solar cell solutions based on proprietary and patented crystalline-silicon (c-Si) thin-film technology, today announced it has closed an $8 million Series A funding co-led by Globespan Capital Partners and El Dorado Ventures, and joined by existing investors Battelle Ventures and its affiliate fund, Innovation Valley Partners.

NRL Developed SSULI Provides Unique Technique to Sense Ionosphere and Thermosphere from Space

Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct. 18, 2009, the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by NRL's Space Science Division and Spacecraft Engineering Department offers a first of its kind technique for remote sensing of the ionosphere and thermosphere from space.

Laser-Scanning Microscope Helps to Image Brain Cells in Moving Animals

The majority of our life is spent moving around a static world and we generate our impression of the world using visual and other senses simultaneously. It is the ability to freely explore our environment that is essential for the view we form of our local surroundings. When we walk down the street and enter a shop to buy fruit, the street, shop and fruit are not moving, we are. What our brain is probably doing is constantly updating our position based on the information received from our sensory inputs such as eyes, ears, skin as well as our motor and vestibular systems, all in real time. The problem for researchers trying to understand how this occurs has always been how to record meaningful signals from the brain cells that do the calculations while we are in motion.

Singapore IBN and NUH Open IBN iCare and NUH Eye Centre @ Biopolis

Marking a significant bench to bedside research milestone in Singapore, the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world's first bioengineering and nanotechnology research institute, and the National University Hospital (NUH) launched the IBN iCare and the NUH Eye Centre @ Biopolis at an official opening ceremony officiated by the Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Education, S. Iswaran, at the Biopolis on Nov. 3, 2009.

Carmanah Installs Bus Stops in Off Grid Locations of LA with Solar Powered Lights

The City of Los Angeles is working with Carmanah Technologies (TSX: CMH) to illuminate off grid locations with solar power. As part of a green streetlight program, the City is replacing high pressure sodium lighting fixtures with hardwired LED streetlights such as the LEDway™ luminaire from BetaLED — and lighting nearby bus stops with solar powered EverGEN™ lights from Carmanah.

SRS Energy to Exhibit its First BIPV Roofing Product at Greenbuild

SRS Energy, US Tile will Feature Solar-Powered Roofing Tile among Fellow Green Building Peers

Sokkia Launches New Enhancements to NET05 and the NET1 Automated 3D Stations

The NET05 features 0.5” angle accuracy and sub-millimeter EDM for maximum precision, while the NET1, a 1” model, incorporates longer range EDM and a new laser option designed for precise measurement in tunnel and general construction applications.

Maxatec Launches New Series SUMO Digital Signage Displays

Today Maxatec announces the introduction of a new series of SUMO digital displays for digital signage and in-store advertising display applications. The company's product portfolio will now include the SUMO ST8A (acrylic) and SUMO ST8MS (metal). These screens are fully customisable and will display product advertising or information directly to customers through still images, video and audio.

NetLogic Microsystems Introduces NLP1220 Dual-Port 8.5Gbps FibreChannel PHY Repeater Devices

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:NETL), a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks, today announced the production availability of the NLP1220 dual-port 8.5Gbps FibreChannel PHY repeater device with an integrated low-power equalization engine. The NLP1220 offers best-in-class power consumption and latency to customers developing next-generation data center switches and storage Host Bus Adapters (HBAs).

MRV COMMUNICATIONS CTO to Participate in Discussion at Ethernet Expo 2009

MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC., today announced that its Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Optical Networks, Brandon Pemberton, will participate in a roundtable discussion at Light Reading’s Ethernet Expo 2009. MRV is a leading networking company with a full line of packet-optical transport (P-OTS), carrier Ethernet, 40G networking and out-of-band networking products.

Ultra-Portable, Personal Projector for Projecting Everyday Moments

A Personal, Ultra-Portable Projector for Anyone’s Lifestyle

Visioneer Launches New Mobile Duplex Color Scanner for Windows and Mac

Scan at Your Desk or Away From the Office. At the Push of a Button, the Strobe 500 Ejects From Its Desktop Docking Station to Become a Full Function Mobile Scanner.