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Future Lighting Announces Availability of Pre-Bundled Reference Design 'Quick Kits' from NIC Components

Future Lighting Solutions today announced the availability of pre-bundled reference design 'Quick Kits' from NIC Components that speed the process of prototyping solid-state lighting applications.

17 Jun 2009

Fluoptics' Industry-First Optical Imaging System Enhances Detection and Helps Surgery

Leti, a leading global research center committed to creating and commercializing innovation in micro- and nanotechnologies, announced today that it has launched a new company, Fluoptics, that will improve surgery of some types of cancers.

17 Jun 2009

Oclaro Introduces New Focus 1064nm High Power Laser

Oclaro, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCLR) , the newly named optics and photonics company following the merger of Bookham and Avanex, has introduced a 1064nm capability to its portfolio of New Focus(TM) high power SWL-7500 single wavelength lasers for Raman spectroscopy.

17 Jun 2009

Coherent Introduces First Fiber-Delivered 1 kW Direct Diode Laser System

Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) has introduced its first, fiber-delivered 1 kW direct diode laser system for industrial applications. In a highly reliable design based on closed-loop cooling, the HighLight™ 1000F offers a flexible, mobile solution for today's industrial applications.

17 Jun 2009

Fujifilm Begins Full Operation of New Plant for Wide-View Film for LCDs

FUJIFILM Corporation will start full operation of plant No.9 for WV (wide-view) Film, which widens viewing angles of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) in early July 2009. The new plant will be located on the compound of Fujifilm Opt Materials Co., Ltd., one of the main production bases for flat panel display materials.

16 Jun 2009

Light Emitting Probes Represent Significant Step in Scrutinizing the Behaviors of Proteins

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created bright, stable and bio-friendly nanocrystals that act as individual investigators of activity within a cell.

16 Jun 2009

Nemotek's Wafer-Level Optics Solutions are Fully Qualified and Available to Customers

Nemotek Technologie, manufactures customized Wafer-Level Cameras for portable applications, today announced its Wafer-Level Optics (WLO) solutions are fully qualified and now available to customers. Producing thousands of lenses simultaneously on a single wafer, Nemotek Technologie streamlines the manufacturing process delivering a more cost effective and miniaturized wafer level based on reflow compatible materials.

16 Jun 2009

SmartPod Luminaire Revolutionizes HID Lighting with up to 60-Percent Energy Savings

HID Laboratories, a provider of intelligent high-intensity lighting solutions, today unveiled the lighting industry's first high-efficiency, high-performance smart lighting and control platform.

16 Jun 2009

Increasing the Power of X-Rays

Three-dimensional, real-time X-ray images of patients could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a pair of Russian institutes.

16 Jun 2009

Brookhaven Lab Begins Construction of Conventional Facilities at the National Synchrotron Light Source II

The U.S. Department of Energy’'s Brookhaven National Laboratory announced today that it is beginning construction of the conventional facilities at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a project that will advance energy research for the nation and create hundreds of jobs for Long Island over the next several years.

15 Jun 2009

Scientists Break Light Modulation Speed Record

Researchers have constructed a light-emitting transistor that has set a new record with a signal-processing modulation speed of 4.3 gigahertz, breaking the previous record of 1.7 gigahertz held by a light-emitting diode.

15 Jun 2009

Bayer MaterialScience and Add-Vision Sign License Agreement

Bayer MaterialScience AG signed a technology and patent license agreement with Add-Vision Inc., a Delaware corporation based in Scotts Valley, California. The agreement grants Bayer MaterialScience and its affiliates certain rights to manufacture and sell flexible polymer organic light-emitting diode (P-OLED) displays using Add-Vision's technology and intellectual property (IP) portfolio.

15 Jun 2009

NKT Photonics Will Build Lasers That Can See in the Infrared Spectrum

Imagine that you could detect gases far in the distance or detect fat content in real-time on the spot instead of going through the tedious process by first taking a sample out and then placing it under a microscope in a remote lab.

15 Jun 2009

New Generation Provides More Efficient Fiber Coupling

The new generation of mini laser bars from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors offers exceptional brilliance in the wavelength range from 910 to 1020 nm.

15 Jun 2009

Scientist Honored for his Contributions to Development of Scalable High Energy Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Lasers

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is pleased to announce that Dr. Charles W. Clendening, ABL-NGAS Chief Scientist, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, Calif., has won the 2009 AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Award.

15 Jun 2009