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Latest Optical and Laser Technology Showcased at Frontiers in Optics 2009

From scopes that help premature babies breathe to techniques for imaging live neurons and beating hearts as they develop, the latest optical and laser technology being deployed in medicine and the biosciences will be on display at the Optical Society's (OSA) Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO), which takes place Oct. 11-15 at the Fairmont San Jose Hotel and the Sainte Claire Hotel in San Jose, Calif.

29 Sep 2009

Navitar Celebrates Twenty Five Years of Manufacturing High Magnification Video Microscope Lenses

Navitar Inc., a manufacturer of precision optical and opto-electronic systems, welcomes their twenty-fifth anniversary of manufacturing high magnification video microscope lenses.

From Navitar Inc. 24 Sep 2009

A Tiny, Tunable Well of Light, and a String Theorist's Toolbox

Photonics, the science of using photons to carry information, promises to continue improving a wide variety of technologies, from computing to high-speed communication.

21 Sep 2009

Optics Made to Measure

If you are in the business of developing high-speed electronic components, it pays not to lose sight of the electrons. To keep track of them you will need to use dedicated optical elements, such as those now on offer from UltraFast Innovations GmbH

16 Sep 2009

Specialised Imaging Announces New Technological Innovation for its SIR2 Camera

Specialised Imaging Ltd. has announced a new technological innovation for its SIR2 camera that enables researchers to accurately record and analyse projectiles with unpredictable velocities.

16 Sep 2009

Leading European Supplier of Superior Quality Custom Lenses for Critical Machine Vision Applications

Resolve Optics Ltd. is a leading European designer and supplier of superior quality, high resolution custom lenses for a variety of critical machine vision applications.

16 Sep 2009

Researchers Discover New Way of Storing and "Echoing" Pulses of Light

A new way of storing and 'echoing' pulses of light has been discovered by a team from The Australian National University, allowing bursts of laser to work as a flexible optical memory and potentially assist in extending the range of quantum information systems.

9 Sep 2009

Light at the Speed of a Bicycle and Much More

The speed of light, 300 million metres per second, was long thought an immutable constant and has defined our understanding of matter and energy but recent research in the area of optics and photonics is proving that we can manipulate light to some ingenious and hugely lucrative ends.

9 Sep 2009

First Product Released by New Optical Equipment Manufacturer

Zemetrics, an optical metrology product company founded last year to provide new concept surface metrology systems, has brought its first system, ZeMapper, to the precision engineering and R and D market.

7 Sep 2009

Patterning Photonic Crystal Structures Help Boost Effieciency

Currently there is a tremendous incentive to increase the efficiency of LEDs as they continue to find application in more and more areas such as consumer products, residential and consumer lighting and automotive industry.

4 Sep 2009