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Canon Eyecare Solutions Help Bring True High-Res Digital Imaging to the Physician's Desktop

At the American Academy of Ophthalmology's (AAO) Annual Meeting, Canon U.S.A., Inc., will showcase its complete line of total digital imaging and workflow management solutions for eyecare professionals in booth #720 at the Georgia World Conference Center in Atlanta (November 8th - 11th).

8 Nov 2008

New Fiber Inspection Tool from JDSU Helps Accelerate FTTx Installations

JDSU today announced the release of the HD3-P to help prevent one of the leading causes of network downtime: contaminated, or "dirty," fiber.

8 Nov 2008

Yingli Green Energy Signs Long-Term Polysilicon Supply Agreement with Wacker Chemie

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, one of the world's leading vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturers, today announced it has entered into a new long-term polysilicon supply agreement with Wacker Chemie AG.

8 Nov 2008

Telcordia Hosts 7th FSAN Gigabit Passive Optical Networking Test Event

With economic considerations on the minds of operators worldwide, now more than ever, it is imperative for communications service providers and equipment vendors to ensure their networks' integrity and minimize deployment risks through cost-effective testing. Recognizing this, Telcordia, acknowledged in the industry for its expertise in testing cutting-edge technologies, which has included FTTx optical systems and components, recently hosted the 7th Full Service Access Network (FSAN) Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON) Test Event at its U.S. Headquarters.

7 Nov 2008

BNL Begins Construction of its Newest Research Facility, the National Synchrotron Light Source II

Site preparation work for construction of BNL's newest research facility, the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), is set to begin next week, subject to approval of the contractor safety plan. The project, expected to be completed over the next six years, will include the construction of conventional facilities, installation of the accelerator and experimental equipment and the startup, testing and commissioning of all systems.

7 Nov 2008

Scientific Community Celebrating 7 Years of High-Res Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery from CHRIS

The scientific community is celebrating 7 years of high resolution hyperspectral satellite imagery from the highly successful CHRIS multi-spectral payload imager.

7 Nov 2008

10,000th Carl Zeiss Meditec's IOLMaster Placed at Customer Site

Carl Zeiss Meditec AG achieved its 10,000th IOLMaster® placement earlier this month. The IOLMaster® is a diagnostic system to calculate all necessary eye measurements for determining the most appropriate replacement implant lens during cataract surgery, the most frequently performed surgery worldwide.

7 Nov 2008

Intersil's Tiny ISL29020 Features Best-in-Class Low-Light Sensitivity and Ideal Spectral Response

Intersil Corporation, a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance analog semiconductors, today announced one of the industry's best performing and easiest-to-use light-to-digital sensors, the ISL29020.

6 Nov 2008

New Micro-CT System Produces Images Sharp Enough to Detect Motion of Arteries in Rats and Mice

A RIKEN-led team has designed and constructed a high-resolution, computed tomography (CT) system that can visualize the motion and deformation of the heart, coronary arteries and small airways of live rats and mice, the animals most often used as models for human disease.

6 Nov 2008

Coherent's New AVIA 532-45 - The Most Powerful Diode-Pumped Solid State Green Laser Currently Available

The new AVIA(TM) 532-45 from Coherent, Inc. is the most powerful diode-pumped, solid state green laser currently available that delivers diffraction limited output. Specifically, this new laser provides 45W of average power (at 120 kHz) at 532 nm, in a single mode output beam (M2 < 1.3), making it over twice as powerful as the nearest competitive model.

6 Nov 2008

Tiny Solar Cells as a Power Source for Microscopic Machines

Some of the tiniest solar cells ever built have been successfully tested as a power source for even tinier microscopic machines. An article in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (JRSE), published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP), describes an inch-long array of 20 of these cells -- each one about a quarter the size of a lowercase "o" in a standard 12-point font.

6 Nov 2008

Carl Zeiss Introduces Super Wide Angle Lens for Industrial Applications and Technical Automation

Carl Zeiss has now introduced the Distagon T* 3,5/18 ZF for industrial applications and technical automation - a compact wide angle system covering an extremely wide image angle.

6 Nov 2008

Camera Based Identification Systems Read Barcodes at the HUB in Chilly-Mazarin

After performing extensive comparison tests, the French logistics company Chronopost decided in favor of the camera-based identification technology from VITRONIC. In its new distribution center in Chilly-Mazarin/France, up to 30,000 packages per hour are sorted at during peak times.

6 Nov 2008

Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Ultrasound to Relieve Cancer Pain

Physicians at The Methodist Hospital in Houston are studying ways to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound to relieve some of the most intense pain resulting from cancer that has spread to the bones.

6 Nov 2008

Vertilon Launches SIB2316 Sensor Interface Board for SensL SPMArray

Vertilon Corporation announced today that it has launched the SIB2316 sensor interface board for the SensL SPMArray 16 element silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) array. The first of its kind product supports up to two SPMArrays and provides the necessary interface and signal processing circuitry to capture high speed pulsed optical events such as those found in PET, SPECT, and radiation detection applications.

5 Nov 2008

Optics & Photonics News

Canon Eyecare Solutions Help Bring True High-Res Digital Imaging to the Physician's Desktop

New Fiber Inspection Tool from JDSU Helps Accelerate FTTx Installations

Yingli Green Energy Signs Long-Term Polysilicon Supply Agreement with Wacker Chemie

Telcordia Hosts 7th FSAN Gigabit Passive Optical Networking Test Event

BNL Begins Construction of its Newest Research Facility, the National Synchrotron Light Source II

Scientific Community Celebrating 7 Years of High-Res Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery from CHRIS

10,000th Carl Zeiss Meditec's IOLMaster Placed at Customer Site

Intersil's Tiny ISL29020 Features Best-in-Class Low-Light Sensitivity and Ideal Spectral Response

New Micro-CT System Produces Images Sharp Enough to Detect Motion of Arteries in Rats and Mice

Coherent's New AVIA 532-45 - The Most Powerful Diode-Pumped Solid State Green Laser Currently Available

Tiny Solar Cells as a Power Source for Microscopic Machines

Carl Zeiss Introduces Super Wide Angle Lens for Industrial Applications and Technical Automation

Camera Based Identification Systems Read Barcodes at the HUB in Chilly-Mazarin

Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Ultrasound to Relieve Cancer Pain

Vertilon Launches SIB2316 Sensor Interface Board for SensL SPMArray

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