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Carl Zeiss Launches A Purpose-Built Multiphoton Laser Scanning Microscope

Zeiss has overcome the challenges of imaging deep inside living tissues with the launch of the LSM 7 MP, a purpose-built multiphoton laser scanning microscope that, for the first time, incorporates two separate scanners.

20 Apr 2009

CIG Chooses BroadLight's BL2345/BL2348 for Its New Generation GPON ONTs and ONUs

BroadLight, the leading supplier of GPON semiconductors and software, today announced that Cambridge Industries Group (CIG) has selected BroadLight's second generation of GPON System on Chips, the BL2345 and BL2348, for its wide portfolio of GPON Customer Premises Equipment (CPE).

20 Apr 2009

GenOptics to Join HORIBA Scientific Business Segment

HORIBA Jobin Yvon (Longjumeau, France) a fully owned affiliate of HORIBA Ltd (Kyoto, Japan) and a leader in analytical instrumentation products and worldwide leader in optical spectroscopy, announced today, April 17th, 2009 the acquisition of GENOPTICS (Orsay, France).

20 Apr 2009

The Advanced ROADM Capability of 6400 OTP Provides Unmatched Flexibility for Service Offerings, Routing and Restoration

Xtera Communications, a global supplier of next generation optical solutions, today announced that Marcatel, a full service provider of Video, Voice and Data telecommunications services in the Mexican and US market, has selected and is deploying the Xtera 6400 OTP (Optical Transport Platform) as a cost-effective means of quickly introducing a broad range of media and communications services.

20 Apr 2009

Innovative Method for Controlling Light by Adopting Tuning Concepts from RF Technology

In a recent publication in Nature Photonics, a joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Centro de Física de Materiales of CSIC/UPV-EHU in San Sebastian (Spain), Harvard University (USA) and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich (Germany) reports an innovative method for controlling light on the nanoscale by adopting tuning concepts from radio-frequency technology.

19 Apr 2009

OptoElectronix Announces Breakthrough in LEDs for Illumination

OptoElectronix today announced a breakthrough in the use of LEDs for illumination: a new series of small, highly efficient, 180-degree LED modules ideal for retail display lighting, appliances, and task lights.

17 Apr 2009

Kruess Optronic Presents Flame Photometer

Hamburg based Kruess Optronic with its more than 200 years of experience in developing optical measuring instruments has once again proven its innovative strength - on the ACHEMA a flame photometer will be presented as a world novelty.

16 Apr 2009

Enhancing the Accuracy of Atomic Clock

Physicists have measured and controlled seemingly forbidden collisions between neutral strontium atoms-a class of antisocial atoms known as fermions that are not supposed to collide when in identical energy states.

16 Apr 2009

Step Closer to an Atomic Clock That is Now Three Times More Precise

A clock that is so precise that it loses only a second every 300 million years - this is the result of new research in ultra cold atoms. The international collaboration is comprised of researchers from the University of Colorado, USA and the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen and the results have just been published in the prestigious scientific journal, Science.

16 Apr 2009

Report Analyzes the Global Market for Non-Linear Optical Materials and Applications

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Non-Linear Optical Materials and Applications - Global Strategic Business Report" report to their offering.

16 Apr 2009

Using Colors of Light to Shrink the Size of Circuitry

A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light.

16 Apr 2009

ITT Corp Receives Multi-Million Order for Night Vision Goggles from U.S. Army

ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) has received a $121 million order from the U.S. Army Research, Development + Engineering Command Acquisition Center for the AN/PVS-14, ITT's most popular night vision goggle. This order represents the fifth largest ever received by the division.

16 Apr 2009