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VoIP Experts Bring PC-to-PC Video Conferencing and Real-Time Mobile Video to VoiceCON

Global IP Solutions (Oslo Børs: GIPS), the leading provider of IP multimedia processing solutions, announced today its plans to demonstrate real-time video, from the desktop to mobile devices at VoiceCON Orlando, March 30-April 2, 2009.

25 Mar 2009

New Way to Produce Electronic Components Can Lead to Flexible Display Screens

Flexible display screens and cheap solar cells can become a reality through research and development in organic electronics. Physicists at Umeå University in Sweden have now developed a new and simple method for producing cheap electronic components.

25 Mar 2009

DILAS Offers the Broadest Range of Horizontal Stacked Arrays

DILAS, the diode laser company, offers the broadest range of horizontal stacked arrays, from two through thirteen bars available at 808nm and 940nm.

25 Mar 2009

JDSU Introduces First Monolithically Integrated and Tunable Optical Transceiver

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU) today announced the industry's first monolithically integrated and tunable optical transceiver. The JDSU tunable XFP transceiver is 85 percent smaller than previous tunable products, allowing network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) to pack more transceiver interfaces into a system or to deploy smaller systems within a network node.

24 Mar 2009

New Surface Treatment that Boosts Light Absorption of Silicon Photovoltaic Cells

Using two different types of chemical etching to create features at both the micron and nanometer size scales, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a surface treatment that boosts the light absorption of silicon photovoltaic cells in two complementary ways.

24 Mar 2009

EMCORE Corporation Announces New Tunable TOSA 10 Gb/s Optical Component Platform

EMCORE Corporation (NASDAQ: EMKR), a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber optic and solar power markets, today announced its plans to release a new full-band tunable TOSA (transmit optical sub-assembly) product line.

24 Mar 2009

Major Goal of this Report is to Analyze and Quantify the Markets for OPV Materials of all Kinds

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Organic Photovoltaic Materials Markets: 2009 - 2016" report to their offering.

24 Mar 2009

LOT-Oriel Representing International Light Technologies Measurement Instrumentation

LOT represent International Light Technologies in the UK/Ireland for the following products - Light Meters, Spectroradiometers, Belt Radiometers, Detectors.

From Quantum Design UK and Ireland Ltd 23 Mar 2009

NeoPhotonics Expands Portfolio of GPON Transceivers for Next Generation FTTP Networks

NeoPhotonics announced today a new line of "pluggable" GPON OLT transceivers, compliant with the ITU-T G.984.5 Class B+ and C+ networking standards, to augment its portfolio of widely-deployed GPON modules used in "fiber to the premise" (FTTP) networks around the world.

23 Mar 2009

World's Longest Active Optical Cable to Meet Design Demands of Data Centers

Luxtera today launched the world's longest Active Optical Cable (AOC), Blazar. Extending up to four kilometers, this 40 Gigabit InfiniBand and Ethernet-ready cable meets the growing demand from data centers for long range connectivity.

23 Mar 2009

Agilent Technologies Introduces Photonic Application Software for Next-Generation-Network Component Test

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced a photonic application software suite that supports high accuracy and high-speed measurements in R+D and manufacturing of optical components and modules for the next generation network (NGN).

23 Mar 2009

New Materials Boost Efficiency of Blue OLEDs by 25 Percent

Lighting consumes one-fifth of the electricity generated in the United States. Solid-state lighting offers tremendous potential to improve the situation - once major research challenges are overcome.

22 Mar 2009

High-Tech Photonics Exhibition to Include Special Section

A high-tech Photonics exhibition, which is to be held at Expocentre (Moscow) on April 20 - 23, 2009, will include a special section. It will be completely devoted to laser nanotechnologies, which are considerably transforming the image of modern electronics.

20 Mar 2009

New Lens from Carl Zeiss for Image Processing in Industrial Applications

The new lens from Carl Zeiss for image processing in industrial applications, the Distagon T* 2,8/21 ZF, establishes new standards: thanks to its outstanding correction of chromatic aberration, the Distagon T* 2,8/21 ZF enables results without color fringes even in the difficult light conditions in production halls.

20 Mar 2009

New Online Tool Making it Easy to Search for the Perfect Vehicle Lighting

Cars and commercial vehicles have a whole number of different light sources and lamps – from indicators to full beam and dipped headlights to reverse warning lights. But finding the right lamp right away is often not easy. At www.osram.com/applicationguide OSRAM now has a new online tool that simplifies product classification and selection.

20 Mar 2009