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Coherent Launches New Product Catalog

A new product catalog from Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) provides detailed specifications for the company's expanded offering of laser power and energy measurement tools.

15 Apr 2009

Lite-Inside Wardrobe Rails Honored as One of Building Products Top 100 products

Hettich America's innovative Lite-Inside wardrobe rails has been honored as one of Building Products Top 100 products. The 2009 Top 100 award is an editorial award recognizing products that generated the most editorial inquiries in 2008.

14 Apr 2009

Novaled Introduces Novel Defect Tolerant OLED Structure at Finetech Japan

Novaled's Defect Tolerant OLEDs maintain the appearance of a homogeneously lighted-up surface even in the case of electrical shorts, thanks to the use of its proprietary electrode design. One OLED element consists of two comb-shaped interlocked electrodes, which give a uniform light emission.

14 Apr 2009

Solid-State, Fiber, Gas and Dye Lasers Market Expect to Reach $3.3 Billion by 2015

Laser technologies are increasingly providing solutions that replace as well as complement traditional production technologies. Increasing competitiveness of laser technology provides benefits such as enhanced automation of work processes, increased product quality and flexibility, as well as progressive miniaturization.

14 Apr 2009

First Experimental Proof of All-Optical Silicon-Based Integrated Circuits

The paper results from the collaboration between University of Karlsruhe, Germany; IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; Lehigh University, USA and ETH Zürich, Switzerland. The achievements are a key step towards the development of complex silicon-based photonic integrated circuits.

14 Apr 2009

Singular Software Releases PluralEyes

Singular Software Inc. has released PluralEyes™, a new product that automatically synchronizes audio and video clips without the need for timecode. Targeted at the independent video professional, PluralEyes™ drastically simplifies multicamera productions, both during filming and in post-production.

13 Apr 2009

Daylight Solutions Introduces its Latest Mid-Infrared High Power Laser System

Daylight Solutions, Inc., the leading manufacturer of advanced molecular detection and imaging solutions in the Mid IR, today announced deliveries of its latest mid-infrared, high power laser system.

13 Apr 2009

Reducing Future Visual Burden of Age-Related Eye Disease

The prevalence of the eye disease age-related macular degeneration is projected to increase substantially by 2050, but the use of new therapies is expected to help mitigate its effects on vision, according to results of simulation modeling reported in the April issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

13 Apr 2009

Active Optical Clock - Concept, Principles and Techniques

Institute of Quantum Electronics, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, has proposed the concept, principles and techniques of active optical clock. The study is reported in Issue 54 (February, 2009) of Chinese Science Bulletin because of its significant research value.

13 Apr 2009

DARPA Selects Pranalytica to Develop Beam Combining for High Power Quantum Cascade Laser Arrays

Pranalytica, Inc. today announced that it has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program to participate in Phase I of the Beam Combining of High Power Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) Arrays project for the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM).

13 Apr 2009

Using Lasers to Design and Control Polarization

Applied scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, lasers in which the direction of oscillation of the emitted radiation, known as polarization, can be designed and controlled at will.

13 Apr 2009

Important Step for Making Light Crystals

Ohio State University researchers have developed a new strategy to overcome one of the major obstacles to a grand challenge in physics.

9 Apr 2009

Silicon Constellations' LUXEON Rebel Based Noveseo Light Modules Reduce Cabinet Depth by 50%

New 4"-deep illuminated way finding signs at the Mineta San Jose International Airport in California are half the depth of standard signage in the same class, thanks to LUXEON Rebel based light modules designed by Silicon Constellations of Santa Clara, California.

9 Apr 2009

Extragalactic Survey Reveals Half the Universe's Starlight

After two years spent analyzing data from BLAST, the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope, physicists are releasing the first results.

9 Apr 2009

Renovated Facility and DOE Investment Strengthen Company's Leadership in Efficient Lighting

OSRAM SYLVANIA has opened an expanded clean room dedicated to solid-state lighting research and announced research and product development awards from the U.S. Department of Energy totaling nearly $2 million.

9 Apr 2009