Optics News / Photonics News The Key Behind High Performance, Small Size and Low Power BroadLight, the leading supplier of GPON semiconductors and software, today announced that Askey Computer has selected its BL2348 Residential Gateway (RG) SoC for its new line of high-performance CPE products. Full Optics News Story Industry-Leading CIGS Photovoltaic Cell Efficiency Announced at Conference Applied Materials Signs Multiyear Agreement with Solar Company in Spain Transmitting Uncompressed HD Feeds Simultaneously Across Several Kilometers New Technique for Measuring Light TFT LCD Modules Feature High Brightness and Low Power Consumption Spire Semiconductor to Present its Custom Concentrator Solar Cell Solutions Intematix Introduces Complete Line of Patented Chip on Ceramic LEDs and LED Arrays Intematix Corp., a leading innovator in materials, phosphors, LED lighting components and integration services, today announced a broad expansion of its product offerings with the introduction of a complete line of patented "chip on ceramic" LEDs and LED arrays. Full Optics News Story Higher Temperatures Yield Tunable, Supersensitive Hyper-CEST MRI Standard magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, is a superb diagnostic tool but one that suffers from low sensitivity, requiring patients to remain motionless for long periods of time inside noisy, claustrophobic machines. Full Optics News Story Molecular Dimmer Switch Controlling Flow of Solar Energy In a study of the molecular mechanisms by which plants protect themselves from oxidation damage should they absorb too much sunlight during photosynthesis, a team of researchers has discovered a molecular "dimmer switch" that helps control the flow of solar energy moving through the system of light harvesting proteins. Full Optics News Story How Does Light Pass Through a Tiny Hole Student Project Aims to Develop Cost-Efficient Solar Power For a project that could be on the very cutting edge of renewable energy, this one is actually decidedly low tech--and that's the point. Full Optics News Story Indium Nitride-Based Quantum-Dot Solar Cells Potentially Provide High Efficiency Chipset Simplifies System Design by Being Fully Programmable Device to Directly Measure Complex Ultrashort Light Pulses at and Near Focus Lasers that emit ultrashort pulses of light are used for numerous applications including micromachining, microscopy, laser eye surgery, spectroscopy and controlling chemical reactions. Full Optics News Story Computed Radiography System Helps Uncover Secrets from the Past Digital medical imaging and information technology from Carestream Health, Inc., is playing a key role in helping The Field Museum of Chicago discover and analyze secrets hidden within its world-class collections. Full Optics News Story Alliance to Focus on Reducing OLEDs Production Costs The Brightest LCD Panel in the World Intent on producing the most innovative technology for digital information displays (DIDs), Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world's largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, today announced that it has begun mass producing a 46-inch "high bright" digital signage panel - the brightest LCD panel in the world. Full Optics News Story New Signature Series of Elite KURO Monitors Tailored Specifically for Custom Installers Crown Royal Wins Gold Award at Popai OMA Awards Alluma Tech announced that it has received a Gold Award for its Crown Royal LED sign at the recent Popai, 2008 OMA Awards. It was the first Gold award for Alluma Tech's new line of energy efficient Lite Tech products. Full Optics News Story Raytheon Signs Cooperative Development Agreement for Semiactive Laser Guided Rockets On the Not So Bright Side of Compact Fluorescent Light Extending the Development Resources Available to the Lighting Community Philips Lumileds today introduced new online tools that simplify the development of general lighting and other solutions utilizing the company's high-power LUXEON LEDs. Full Optics News Story Agreement Enables MTI Micro to Evaluate Mobion Technology for Precision Imaging Applications Deal will Put a High-Definition Display at Almost Every Hole Mitsubishi Electric, the Official High-Definition Television and the Official Large Outdoor Video Display Provider of the PGA TOUR, is supplying 11 additional state-of-the-art Diamond Vision(TM) LED high-definition scoreboards for PGA TOUR events. Full Optics News Story GT Solar Signs Contract to Supply DSS450 Furnaces and Accessories to Nexolon Manufacturing Facility to Support Rapidly Growing PV Solar Energy Industry DuPont today announced it will soon begin construction on a research center in Hong Kong and a manufacturing facility in Shenzhen to support the rapidly growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy industry. Full Optics News Story New Light Engines Provides a Very High Power, Cost-Effective Spot Source AMS Technologies announces the availability of a new product range of light engines of the British manufacturer Enfis Ltd. Full Optics News Story Ultrafast Laser Offers High Speed, Short Pulses and High Average Power Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an ultrafast laser that offers a record combination of high speed, short pulses and high average power. Full Optics News Story MagnaChip Begins Shipping its Medium-Sized AMOLED Display Driver ICs LDK Solar to Deliver Approximately 540 MW of Multicrystalline Solar Wafers to Qimonda Latest Cutting Edge Developments of Solar Energy and Photovoltaics Green Living Ideas, the world's most comprehensive green living website, and SPG Solar, Inc., the industry's leading integrated developer, designer, and installer of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, announce SPG Solar's exclusive sponsorship of GreenLivingIdeas.com's Solar Energy/Photovoltaic education center. Full Optics News Story Compact Ultra-Thin Design Provides Narrow Light Radiation Pattern for Autofocus Flash Function in Digital Cameras Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced a new miniature autofocus light emitting diode (LED) for use in ultra-slim digital still camera and cell phone designs. Full Optics News Story Agilent Technologies Introduces Multi-wavelength Laser Combiner for Microscopy Applications Agilent Technologies Inc., a leader in precision optics, today announced the availability of a Multi-wavelength Laser Combiner for microscopy applications. Full Optics News Story LED Light Fixture Suppliers Predict Strong Export Growth Eighty-one percent of Greater China LED light fixture suppliers predict strong export growth of 10 percent or more in the next 12 months, due primarily to a wider range of LED-based general lighting applications. This is according to Global Sources' China Sourcing Report: LED Light Fixtures. Full Optics News Story CN 4200, CoreDirector and CoreStream Pass Rigorous JITC Evaluation Providing University Significant Upgrade in Available Bandwidth Helping LCD TV Manufacturers and Brands Reduce Power Consumption of LCD TVs Product Based on Hazard-Detection Technology Developed for U.S. Army Company to Now Integrate Optical Bonding into Customer Offerings Industry’s Smallest and Highest-Power Solar Array Simulator Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced a modular solar array simulator that offers the most power (up to 1200W) in the smallest package (2U high). Full Optics News Story The Much Anticipated and Only 1.5” Displays Are Now Available to Consumers Indium Nitride-Based Quantum-Dot Solar Cells Potentially Provide High Efficiency and Resistance to Extreme Conditions Energy Innovations Announces Availability of RayTracker GC Solar Tracker Silfab to Produce 2500 Tons of Solar Grade Polysilicon Annually from 2009 Microscopic X-Ray CT is Expected to Help Scientists Testing Gene Function A technique called microscopic X-ray computed tomography (microCT) is affording scientists the ability to visualize even the subtlest birth defects in prenatal and postnatal bats, mice, opossums and primates, which one day may lead to new understandings about human birth defects, said Charles Keller, M.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Full Optics News Story The Relationship Between Migratory Birds, Light and Earth's Magnetic Field A team of researchers at Arizona State University and the University of Oxford are the first to model a photochemical compass that may simulate how migrating birds use light and Earth's weak magnetic field to navigate. Full Optics News Story DRS Technologies Announces Contract to produce Thermal Weapon Sights PLCC-6 Package Provides Better Color Control and Reliability Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today introduced a new family of compact high-brightness tricolor surface mount (SMT) LEDs for indoor and outdoor full color signs and video displays. Full Optics News Story New Patented Film Has the Highest Reported Water Vapour Barrier Performance The Calix 760 ONTs Target Underserved and Growing Commercial Market State-of-the-Art Electro-Optic System Allows Greater Flexibility in Boat Design Zecotek to Exhibit at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Zecotek Photonics Inc. today announced it will be exhibiting select imaging and laser products during the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, May 6-9, 2008 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. Full Optics News Story Unique Test Calibrate Optical Imaging and Monitoring Instrumentation for Returning Shuttles NASA has once again turned to Sandia's National Solar Thermal Test Facility - aka the Solar Tower - to help evaluate new technology for future space shuttle missions. NASA's most recent testing series in early March evaluated the HYpersonic AeroTHermodynamic InfraRed Measurements (HYTHIRM) systems. Full Optics News Story Installation by Leading Research Center Signifies Increased Adoption of XLR Technology Key Global Semiconductor Customer Accepts Veeco's New Insight 3D AFM Veeco Instruments Inc., announced today that its new InSight(TM) 3D Automated Atomic Force Microscope (3DAFM) Platform has been accepted by a key global semiconductor customer. Full Optics News Story Making Medical Imaging Accessible to Billions of People Around the World Next Wave of Mass-Market Residential and Business Lighting New Generation of Single Chip LED Able Achieve Better Homogeneous Illumination DOMINANT going offering higher brightness white and warm white LED in SPNovaLED-1 Watt product range. With an operating current of only 350mA, this new generation of single chip LED able to achieve 80lm/w in cool white and 50lm in warm white. Full Optics News Story Simmtronic Supplied Lighting Controls for Two Prestigious Office Buildings in Spinningfields Simmtronic has supplied its SPECS3 fully addressable, digital lighting controls for two more prestigious office buildings at Spinningfields - Allied London's 4.6 million sq. ft. business district development in Manchester. Full Optics News Story Systems Optimized for Moving Small Objects such as Optical Fibers Fast and Precisely PI's patented P-653 piezo motor linear slide is significantly smaller than other miniature linear stages and provides significantly higher velocities and resolution. Full Optics News Story Improving Our Understanding of How Light Interacts with Matter Phase III SBIR contract from the US Army for Cadmium Telluride on Silicon Night Vision Applied Energetics Awarded Contract from Army for Laser Guided Energy Technology Applied Energetics, Inc., today announced it has been awarded a $4.5 million Sole Source Contract from the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (ARDEC - Picatinny, NJ) for the development and advancement of the company’s Laser Guided Energy technology. Full Optics News Story Calix Announces its FTTP Solutions are Deployed Across the State of Texas Innovative Image Enhancement Technology Enables 3X Zoom Capabilities for Camera Module and Handset Manufacturers Optical Feedback Support To Help LED Designers Maintain Perfect Color Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced significant enhancements for its award winning EZ-Color(TM) design solution for intelligent color and white LED lighting systems. The new ColorLock(TM) feature enables designers to use optical feedback to automatically ensure precise color points over time and temperature for applications such as LCD backlighting, architectural lighting and more. Full Optics News Story Solar Power Focused with Operations Based in Spain and Italy DRS Technologies Receives Order for Long Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System Subassemblies Combining Clinical Benefits of Dual Wavelengths Through Patented MultiPlex Technology Nanowires Could Lead to Longer Lasting Displays XenICs Now Certified According to ISO 9001:2000 XenICs, Europe's leading developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared detectors and customized imaging solutions covering the LWIR to the visible realm, is now certified according to ISO 9001:2000. The award includes all of XenICs' corporate functions and departments. Full Optics News Story Fresh Insights into the Composition of Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Global Polysilicon Market Will Be Eased off in 2009 Innovation Increases Street Lighting Levels and Safety Replacing Electronics with Optics for Processing Data in Computers is A Step Closer Company Signed Long-Term Polysilicon Supply Agreement with SILFAB S.p.A. Zecotek Granted Australian Patent for 3D2D Display System Aviation + Safety Division to Deploy High-Performance Tactical Lighting Systems to Support Facilities Cameras Offer an Extended Range of User-Convenient Benefits Meiji Techno announces the latest in CMOS digital camera technology: With scientific grade, defect free sensors, these high quality cameras are designed to be a cost-effective versatile solution for documentation of microscopy imaging where high resolution is required. Full Optics News Story Industry Leader in Silicon Photonics Ready for Rapid Growth Fiber Laser Pump Engine Designed for Next Generation Airborne Weapons Applications MSPP LED Spot Projectors Offer Amazingly Bright Illumination Moritex, specialists in machine vision and inspection, has announced the new MSPP Series of LED Spot Projectors designed to replace conventional halogen point light sources as well as fibre optic illumination solutions. Full Optics News Story Leading Supplier Issued Patent for LED String Driver Architecture Aegis Lightwave Acquires an Emerging Leader in Next-Generation Optical Channel Monitors Aegis Lightwave, a company focused exclusively on providing a wide range of optical monitoring solutions to the fiber-optics communications industry, announced today the acquisition of CardinalPoint Optics, an emerging leader in next-generation optical channel monitors. Full Optics News Story OEM Lenses for Customers Seeking to Replace Hard to Source or Obsolete Optical Components Resolve Optics Ltd., specialists in OEM lens design and manufacture, have built an international reputation with company's faced with replacing hard to source or obsolete optical components within their camera, sensor and instrument systems. Full Optics News Story VLBA's Unrivaled Resolution Unveils Workings of Giant Galactic Particle Accelerators At the cores of many galaxies, supermassive black holes expel powerful jets of particles at nearly the speed of light. Just how they perform this feat has long been one of the mysteries of astrophysics. Full Optics News Story Digital Density Meter from A. Kruess Optronic GmbH that Requires only 1.5mL of Sample On the Analytica A.Kuess Optronic GmbH presents a its latest novelty: a digital density meter, which gets along with only 1.5 ml of sample quantity! Full Optics News Story Carl Zeiss Officially Opened its New North American Headquarters SEI Announces Expansion of Optical Device and Optical Transceiver Manufacturing in China CFL Giveaways Should Not Wind Up as Mass Throwaways Improved OLED Sealing Process Reduces Moisture Intrusion and Improve Device Lifetime Researchers have developed an improved organic light emitting diode (OLED) sealing process to reduce moisture intrusion and improve device lifetime. Full Optics News Story L-3 Communications Announces Acquisition of Northrop Grumman’s Electro-Optical Systems Bring the Sun’s Power to the People Promising to transform solar power from a "boutique" option to an affordable, dependable, mainstream energy solution, MIT and the Chesonis Family Foundation today launched a "solar revolution" with the ultimate aim of making solar energy America's primary carbon-free fuel. Full Optics News Story New Building a Necessity in Order to Secure Future Growth Potential The microscope manufacturer WITec has begun construction of a new headquarters building in Ulm, Germany including research, production and office facilities. The official ground breaking ceremony with the mayor of Ulm occurred on Friday April, 18. 2008. Full Optics News Story OSRAM Debuted the New SYLVANIA Micro-Mini Twist Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Researchers Have Built a Rechargeable Microscope Illumination System for NASA Scientists Auburn University researchers have built a rechargeable microscope illumination system for NASA scientists who are using it during Antarctic expeditions. Full Optics News Story Axion Spatial Imaging Terminates All LOI and Focus on Health Oriented Opportunities Unique Collaborative Effort to Develop a New Generation of High-Brightness Lasers VECTOR Uses OpVista2000 in Networking Projects Throughout Eastern Europe   Click here to view the news archive.

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