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Bausch + Lomb to Celebrate Ground-Breaking Crystalens at ASCRS Meeting in Boston

Crystalens®, the only FDA-approved accommodating intraocular lens (IOL), will celebrate its tenth anniversary at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Annual Meeting in Boston.

12 Apr 2010

FDA Approved Laser Vision Correction Technology Adopted by 25 U.S. Centers

In 1985 a haunting close up photo of an Afghan refugee girl appeared on the cover of National Geographic Magazine.

12 Apr 2010

New OpenGear Platform from EMCORE Supports Fiber Optic Video Transport Solutions

EMCORE Corporation, a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components, subsystems and systems for the fiber optics and solar power markets, announced today the launch of a new video transport platform based on the popular openGear format of terminal equipment.

12 Apr 2010

ReLEx Femtosecond Laser Vision Correction Method Now Available for Sale Outside U.S.

Carl Zeiss Meditec today announced that ReLEx, the first femtosecond-only method of laser vision correction, is now available for sale outside the United States.

12 Apr 2010

OFS to Showcase HCXtreme Optical Fiber Designed for Medical Industry

OFS, Specialty Photonics Division (OFS), a leading provider of specialty optical fiber, cable, and assemblies, will exhibit for the first time at the 2010 American Society for Laser, Medicine, and Surgery Conference (ASLMS); located in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 15-17.

12 Apr 2010

New Single Chip LED from Cree Delivers 750 Lumens at 2 A

Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED lighting, announces a breakthrough new lighting-class LED platform, the XLamp® XM LED.

12 Apr 2010

Level 3 Communications to Enhance Vyvx VenueNet Fiber-Based Infrastructure Services

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced it will significantly upgrade its Vyvx VenueNet infrastructure. VenueNet+ will introduce new and enhanced services in venues nationwide, designed to support innovation in broadcast delivery.

12 Apr 2010

Fully CMOS-Compatible Laser Source to be Presented at SPIE Photonics Europe 2010

Leti announced today that it has demonstrated a fully CMOS-compatible laser source coupled to a silicon waveguide, a major milestone toward the WADIMOS project’s goal of fabricating an optical interconnect network on a chip in CMOS foundries.

12 Apr 2010

Pinnacle to Deliver New Home Security Touch Screen in U.S. and Canada

Pinnacle Security, a leader in the North American residential security market, today announced the arrival of an innovative new home security touch screen.

12 Apr 2010

GE Lighting to Present OLED Technology with Konica Minolta

Imagine the impact on the lighting design industry—and life as a consumer of lighting—if there was a flexible, energy-efficient, paper-thin light source that could be produced economically.

From Konica Minolta Sensing Americas 12 Apr 2010

Ingo and Novaled to Showcase OLED Lamps at Light+Building 2010

Ingo Maurer, internationally renowned designer and producer of exceptional lamps and lighting systems, will exhibit two OLED lamps which are the result of joint efforts with Novaled on the Light + Building trade show in Frankfurt.

12 Apr 2010

Mindspeed Unveils World’s First 288x288 Crosspoint Switch for Optical Transport Networks

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced the world’s first 288x288 asynchronous non-blocking crosspoint switch.

12 Apr 2010

Optical Switching Network Operator MediaXstream Changes Name to Hibernia Media

Hibernia Atlantic, the only diverse transAtlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider, today announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, MediaXstream, will now be branded as Hibernia Media.

12 Apr 2010

Heidelberg Engineering Introduces SPECTRALIS Tracking Laser Tomographer

Heidelberg Engineering is introducing SPECTRALIS®, an office-based imaging device for tracking and measuring axonal change, at the 2010 meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Toronto.

12 Apr 2010

PresbyLens Clinical Study Commenced by ReVision Optics

ReVision Optics, a leading company in the research, development and manufacture of custom optical products to correct and maintain vision, announced today that it has begun its US clinical trial of the PresbyLens® corneal inlay.

12 Apr 2010