Andy Choi

Articles from Andy

Cobolt Launches Single Longitudinal Mode Lasers with True Fiber Pigtailed Option

The Cobolt 04-01 single longitudinal mode laser series from Cobolt will now have a true fiber pigtailed option.

8 Mar 2011

Toshiba Sells Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment to Sony for $646 Million

Toshiba has announced that the equipment for manufacturing semiconductors is being handed over to Sony for $646 million (¥53 billion).

8 Mar 2011

Photonics Company, Alfalight Signs Investment and Technology Agreement with In-Q-Tel

Alfalight, an aluminum-free laser diode manufacturer, has announced an investment and technology agreement with In-Q-Tel, the technology investment firm of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

7 Mar 2011

Imec Deploys ASML’s NXE:3100 Scanner for EUVL Research Program

The President and CEO of Imec, Luc Van den Hove has announced that the installation process of the NXE:3100, ASML’s Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography scanner (EUVL), has begun in its facility at Leuven.

7 Mar 2011

Innovative Floating Solar Technology Offers a New Paradigm in Energy Production

Solaris Synergy, an Israel-based company, EDF Group, a French-based firm, have collaborated to develop floating solar power plants.

7 Mar 2011

Researchers Devise Better Biocompatible Retinal Implants

Vision loss due to degenerative eye diseases like macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa has been restored with retinal implants in the past. Now new research suggests a way to make higher-quality, more biocompatible retinal implants by integrating living neural cells with a soft organic polymer semiconductor.

2 Feb 2011

Corning Optical Fibre Selected for Australia's National Broadband Network

The Australian government's National Broadband Network (NBN) initiative to bring high-speed broadband services nationwide has commenced with Corning Cable Systems Pty. Ltd.,( part of Corning Incorporated’s 'Telecommunications' segment) being chosen as the primary NBN Co supplier of optical fibre cable and hardware for the project.

19 Jan 2011

Super Smart Contact Lenses, 3D and Health Diagnostics

The New Scientist is reporting on the latest technology to take the world of augmented vision by storm! We now have smart contact lenses that monitor eye health with special 'in-eye' 3D image displays also being developed.

18 Jan 2011

Graphene Electrical Properties Controlled with Light: 'Next Gen' Optoelectronics

The UK's National Physical Laboratory, along with a team of international scientists, have shown that when graphene is combined with particular polymers, its electrical properties can be precisely controlled by light and exploited in a new generation of optoelectronic devices.

16 Jan 2011

Highly Collimated Uni-Directional Microlasers Demonstrated

Utilizing a century-old phenomenon discovered in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, highly collimated uni-directional microlasers were demonstrated, for the first time by applied scientists at Harvard University.

14 Dec 2010