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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

Zecotek Photonics Announces Market Response to New Continuous Wave Narrow-Band Ti: Sapphire Laser

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that the market response to its new Continuous Wave Narrow-Band Ti: Sapphire Laser, the Tisarius-D-scan narrow-line laser, endorses Zecotek's growing reputation as a provider of leading edge photonic research tools.

15 Jun 2009

JDSU Announces Availability of IDL 200 Series Systems and Modules

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU) today announced availability of the Industrial Diode Laser (IDL) 200 Series systems and modules that will help end users and systems integrators improve the uptime of their instruments and lower maintenance costs when compared to the use of similar bar-based products.

15 Jun 2009

Lightwave Logic Re-Confirms Previous r33 Test Results of its 'Next Generation Electro-Optic Material Platform'

Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LWLG), a development stage company, moving toward prototype demonstration and commercialization of its high-activity, high-stability organic polymers for applications in electro-optical device markets, announced today current tests results support the earlier results (r33) of its Perkinamine class materials.

14 Jun 2009

Panels with LED Backlights Reached 10.6 Million Units in Q1'09

LED backlights are growing rapidly in large-area (10"+) TFT LCD displays. Panels with LED backlights reached 10.6 million units in Q1'09, up 63% Q/Q and 780% Y/Y, according to the latest DisplaySearch Quarterly LED Backlight Panel Shipment + Forecast Report.

14 Jun 2009

Worldwide Shipments of Large Size Flat Panel Displays Grew 2 Percent Y/Y

While "flat is the new up" for many technologies as the global recession continues, current results show that the flat-panel digital signage market continues to grow with larger-size commercial LCD products outpacing shipments of commercial plasma products 2-to-1 in Q1'09.

14 Jun 2009

Navitar Assisting Defense Contractors in Need of Independent Optical Solutions Provider

In light of recent mergers and acquisitions in the defense industry, Navitar, a leading manufacturer of precision optical systems, stands ready to assist defense contractors and others in need of an independent optical solutions provider.

From Navitar Inc. 14 Jun 2009

New Approach to Common Cause of Blindness

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in collaboration with lead investigators at the University of Kentucky have identified a new target for the diagnosis and treatment of age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in older Americans.

14 Jun 2009