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Using Lasers to Encode Information Underwater

Technologies that use underwater acoustics -- for sonar, communications, or navigation -- often require a piece of hardware in the water to create sound remotely. Physicist Ted Jones and his team at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, are working on ways to use flashes of laser light instead.

26 Apr 2009

Sentinel Feature Eliminates Costly Binning and Provides Full Control for Lighting Designers and Fixture Makers

Enfis Lighting (LSE: ENF), an innovator of intelligent LED lighting systems and technologies, today announced a strategic partnership with Chicago-based North Star Lighting, to jointly introduce the latest version of the highly popular Enfis Sentinel LED lighting control technology which eliminates the need for costly binning and the potential for color shifting over the lifetime of the LED lighting system.

23 Apr 2009

Leadis Technology Announces Sample Availability of Innovative Inductor-Based High-Efficiency LED Driver

Leadis Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: LDIS), an analog and mixed-signal semiconductor developer of LED drivers, and Touch ICs for mobile consumer electronic devices, today announced sample availability of the LDS8710, an innovative inductor-based, high-efficiency LED Driver that eliminates the expensive external Schottky diode normally used in the rectification loop.

23 Apr 2009

Coherent Ships AVIA Laser to Solar Industry for Manufacture of High-Efficiency Solar Cells

Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) today announced it has shipped its 100th AVIA™ laser into the solar industry for use in the manufacture of high-efficiency solar cells and panels.

23 Apr 2009

IPOS Announces Launch with One-Day Symposium on The Photonic Universe

The Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), the newest institute in the University of Sydney and the only one of its kind in Australia, launched this week with a one-day symposium The Photonic Universe - Faster, Further, Smarter.

23 Apr 2009

Laser System Offers New Insight into the Formation of Our Early Solar System

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:ESIO), a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for microengineering applications, today announced that its New Wave Research (NWR) Division's UP213 laser ablation system helped enable the dating of ancient asteroids at the Department of Geology at the University of Maryland.

22 Apr 2009

Industry's Premier Architectural Outdoor Lighting Manufacturer Marks Its 75th Anniversary With Its Biggest Launch in Company History

Kim Lighting, the premier manufacturer of architectural outdoor lighting, announced today the launch of the much-anticipated WARP9 LED, the first low glare, high performance outdoor area light to effectively capitalize on the incredible efficiency, life and output of new LED technology.

22 Apr 2009

Fast Photochromic Molecule That Colors Only under UV Light

Researchers in Japan are reporting development of a new so-called "photochromic" material that changes color thousands of times faster than conventional materials when exposed to light.

22 Apr 2009

Carl Zeiss Introduces LSM 700 Laser Scanning Microscope

Carl Zeiss is setting a new performance standard for entry-level confocal microscopy with the introduction of the LSM 700 Laser Scanning Microscope, which uses proven modules from the world's largest range of fluorescence and laser scanning microscope systems to offer radical flexibility in both application and system structure.

22 Apr 2009

Optical Sensors Enhancing Aircraft Safety

TECNALIA is taking part in the European "Super Sky Sense" project led by the INTERLAB Group and which aims to enhance aeronautical safety by installing alternative optical and biochemical sensors in the aircraft to monitor hydraulic fluids.

22 Apr 2009

AMS Technologies Introduces Compact High Performance Laser Diode Controller

The Vue-LV-15 is a high performance, low cost 15A, 2.5V laser diode controller based on a powerful new microprocessor. It uses a precise crystal oscillator time base for direct computer control of the switching power stage and a patent-pending software algorithm that produces extremely low noise current without dangerous overshoots or start-up delays.

21 Apr 2009

New Era of Research Begins as World's First Hard X-ray Laser Achieves "First Light"

The world's brightest X-ray source sprang to life last week at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) offers researchers the first-ever glimpse of high-energy or "hard" X-ray laser light produced in a laboratory.

21 Apr 2009

New Technique That Scrambles Light May Lead To Sharper Images

When photographers zoom in on an object to see it better, they lose the wide-angle perspective -- they are forced to trade off "big picture" context for detail. But now an imaging method developed by Princeton researchers could lead to lenses that show all parts of the scene at once in the same high detail.

21 Apr 2009

Technique Might be Used as a Tool for Measuring Patients' Response to Chemotherapy

By examining the patterns in which light bounces off cell surfaces, researchers may be able to assess chemotherapy's success in inducing cancer cell death, according to a study led by investigators in the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and Duke's Pratt School of Engineering.

21 Apr 2009

Olympus Introduces Latest Version of the Highly Successful LEXT Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope

Olympus has introduced the LEXT OLS4000, the latest version of the highly successful LEXT confocal laser scanning microscope metrology system. The OLS4000 brings a number of additional features and enhanced functionality, including near-vertical slope capabilities, larger optical zoom and navigation overview window.

21 Apr 2009