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Camera Commander System Increases Sensor Quality Control with Automated Analysis for Dramatically Reduced Testing Time

Sarnoff Corporation today announced the launch of Camera Commander™, a complete CMOS and CCD imaging device and camera testing system for camera manufacturers and their users.

27 Jan 2009

SiOnyx Boosts CMOS Sensor Team, Opens West Coast Office

SiOnyx, Inc., the leading innovator in shallow junction photonics - a patented semiconductor process coined 'black silicon' that radically alters the photonic properties of semiconductor devices - has added several leading image sensor scientists and engineers to its team and opened an engineering office in Beaverton, Oregon.

27 Jan 2009

CU-Boulder Professor Wins $3 Million Fellowship from DoD

University of Colorado at Boulder physics Distinguished Professor Margaret Murnane has been named a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow by the U.S. Department of Defense.

27 Jan 2009

Bookham Introduces 25W Multi-Emitter Fiber Laser Pump Module

Bookham, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKHM), a provider of optical components for industrial applications, has launched a high power multi-emitter pump module capable of delivering 25W out of a 105um fiber with 0.15NA. The product meets fiber laser manufacturers' demands for increased output power and brightness, compact pump configurations, and reduced overall system cost.

27 Jan 2009

Alfalight Unveils Breakthrough in Laser Diode Technology for Lower-Cost, High-Power Laser Systems

Alfalight, Inc., a leading supplier of highly efficient high-power diode lasers, announced today the first details of its breakthrough Surface-Emitting Distributed Feedback (SE-DFB) laser diode technology. This technology uses a significantly different approach at the wafer level to provide a lower-cost system solution with enhanced brightness and ruggedness compared to the edge-emitting laser technology.

27 Jan 2009

NEC LCD Technologies Introduces Two New Amorphous-Silicon TFT-LCD Modules with White LEDs

NEC LCD Technologies, together with its sales and marketing channels in the Americas and Europe, NEC Electronics America, Inc. and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, today introduced two new amorphous-silicon thin-film-transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) modules incorporating white LED backlights for industrial applications.

26 Jan 2009

Air Force Researcher Develops Satellite Imaging Technology

A research associate at the U.S. Air Force Academy's Laser and Optics Research Center here is developing a new capability that will allow satellites to be seen and see clearer.

26 Jan 2009

Eco-Snow Systems Introduces New, Automated Technology for Cleaning Image Sensors

Eco-Snow Systems™, an affiliate of The Linde Group, has introduced a new, automated technology for cleaning image sensors. Eco-Snow Systems is the leading supplier of automated, carbon dioxide (CO2) snow based cleaning tools and processes to the micro-electronics industry.

26 Jan 2009

Canadian Photonics Industry Shines a Ray of Light Amid Economic Gloom

The Canadians are gathering at Photonics West 2009 in San Jose, CA with OCRI representatives to build on what a new industry report says is a shining success. In its survey entitled "Illuminating a World of Opportunity," the Canadian Photonics Consortium states Canada has 370 photonics companies employing some 20,000 people who collectively generate close to $4.5 billion annually, with approximately 85% from exports including 50% to the U.S.

26 Jan 2009

Bookham Achieves Output Power of 200W with a 10mm Laser Diode Bar

Bookham, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKHM), a provider of optical components for industrial applications, has achieved an output power of 200W with a 10mm laser diode bar - believed to be the industry's most powerful commercially available continuous wave (CW) single bar product.

26 Jan 2009

Blue Laser Diode Bringing the World One Step Closer to a Vision of Tiny Projectors

An optimized TO38 package makes the blue laser diode from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors the smallest in its class, bringing the world one step closer to a vision of tiny projectors that can be integrated into mobile devices such as cell phones and digital cameras.

26 Jan 2009

Keithley Releases New 2009 Test and Measurement Product Guide

Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE: KEI), a leader in solutions for emerging measurement needs, announces the release of its 2009 Test and Measurement Product Guide. The 144-page guide offers details and technical specifications on Keithley's general-purpose and sensitive sourcing and measurement products, DC switching, RF switching and measurement, data acquisition solutions, semiconductor test systems, and optoelectronics test.

From Keithley Instruments Inc. 26 Jan 2009

JDSU Introduces New Ultraviolet Filter

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU and TSX: JDU) today announced at the SPIE Photonics West availability of a new ultraviolet (UV) filter, an optical component critical to instrument makers and used for applications such as environmental monitoring, genetic research, biomedical instrumentation, and medical/aesthetic laser instrumentation.

26 Jan 2009

OPKO Receives FDA Clearance for Spectral OCT SLO Combination Imaging System

OPKO Health, Inc. (NYSE Alternext US:OPK) today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to begin marketing in the United States its Spectral OCT SLO Combination Imaging System.

23 Jan 2009

Brookhaven Lab Receives $28 Million to Support X-ray Crystallography Research at National Synchrotron Light Source

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory received grants from DOE and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling $28 million to support an X-ray Crystallography Research Resource at the Laboratory's National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS). The grants of $15 million from DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research and $13 million from NIH's National Center for Research Resources will fund five years of operations and research.

23 Jan 2009