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Infinera Reports One Billion Hours of Failure-Free Operations of Photonic Integrated Circuits

Infinera Reports One Billion Hours of Failure-Free Operations of Photonic Integrated Circuits

Infinera, a leading provider of Intelligent Transport Networks™, announced today that Infinera's photonic integrated circuits (PICs) recently surpassed one billion hours of failure-free operation in live networks worldwide. This achievement underscores the reliability of Infinera's PICs and the key role they play in creating Intelligent Transport Networks. [More]

Altechna Purchase Major Share of Optida, Optical Coatings Manufacturer

UAB Altechna, Lithuanian manufacturer and distributor of laser optics, optoelectronics and laser components, has purchased the major stake of optical coating company Optida Co Ltd. By this investment Altechna is s... [More]
Display Taiwan 2013 & Photonics Festival in Taiwan to be Held in June

Display Taiwan 2013 & Photonics Festival in Taiwan to be Held in June

Display Taiwan 2013 will be inaugurated on June 18th at Nangang Exhibition Hall with joint effort from four leading industry groups- PIDA, SEMI, TAITRA, and TCA in Taiwan. This year, the organizers proudly announced that Hon-hai, the largest OEM/ODM contractor for electronics products has promised to join this expo to exhibit its industry leading 70 inch TV. [More]
Xenon Ships Pulsed Light Technology-Based SINTERON 5000 System for RFID Production

Xenon Ships Pulsed Light Technology-Based SINTERON 5000 System for RFID Production

Xenon Corporation, the world leader in pulsed light technology, today announced the first shipment of its SINTERON™ 5000 system designed for high-speed sintering of silver inks in printed electronics production lines. [More]
New Large Format Frame Cameras from Leica Geosystems for Airborne Applications

New Large Format Frame Cameras from Leica Geosystems for Airborne Applications

Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce that the new Z/I DMC IIe large format frame camera series can be operated fully integrated inside a Leica Geosystems aircraft installation. [More]
InfoComm 2013: Canon to Exhibit Innovative New Projection and HD Camera Products

InfoComm 2013: Canon to Exhibit Innovative New Projection and HD Camera Products

Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, will exhibit innovative new projection and HD camera products at InfoComm 2013, at the Orange County Convention Center (booth # 3729) from June 12-14, in Orlando, FL. [More]
X-rays Help Reveal Cherubini’s Damaged Musical Score

X-rays Help Reveal Cherubini’s Damaged Musical Score

At first glance the beautifully bound 1797 Luigi Cherubini opera Médée looks like an impeccably preserved relic of opera's golden age. However, flip to the final pages of the aria "Du trouble affreux qui me dévore" ("The terrible disorder that consumes me") and you see the problem: Thick smudges of carbon completely black out the closing lines. [More]
Advances in Temporal Cloaking, Optofluidics, and Cryolasers to be Presented at CLEO: 2013

Advances in Temporal Cloaking, Optofluidics, and Cryolasers to be Presented at CLEO: 2013

CLEO: 2013, the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics, brings together the world’s foremost scientists and engineers working in the field of laser science. From June 9-14, in San Jose, more than 1,800 technical presentations, with content stemming from fundamental laser science to photonic applications and products will be presented in such fields as ultrafast lasers, energy-efficient optics, quantum electronics, biotechnology and more. [More]
Effective Optical Cloaking Devices with Inexpensive Materials

Effective Optical Cloaking Devices with Inexpensive Materials

John Howell, a Professor of Physics at the University of Rochester, decided to tackle an unusual DIY project. With the help of his 14 year-old son, Benjamin, he built three simple, but surprisingly effective optical cloaking devices with inexpensive, off-the-shelf materials. [More]
Millenniata Completes New 25GB Blu-ray Optical DISC

Millenniata Completes New 25GB Blu-ray Optical DISC

U.S.-based Millenniata today announced the completion of its new 25GB M-DISC Blu-ray, with mass production to begin in early August 2013. [More]
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