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iTool Video Borescope Provides Superior Image for the Most Demanding Inspector

iTool videoscopes are intended for industrial remote visual borescope inspection of the interior of aircraft turbine engines,power generation turbines, piping, boiler tubes, condensers, industrial lines, rotating machinery and other difficult-to-access areas.

14 Jan 2009

Alfalight Announces Availability of Wavelength-Stabilized 0.65 W Pump Diode Laser

Alfalight, Inc., a leading supplier of highly efficient high-power diode lasers, announced today the availability of a wavelength-stabilized 0.65 W, 808 nm single-emitter pump diode laser packaged on a small form factor 3-mm Q-mount. The device extends the proven benefits of Alfalight's Wavelength Stabilization Technology (WST) to high-efficiency, temperature-stable DPSS micro-laser applications such as pico-projector and laser display systems.

14 Jan 2009

Lenox Extendable Video Borescope Provides Lower Cost Alternative in Straight Inspection Applications

Lenox Instrument Company, the manufacturer of the original borescope, today announced the Lenox Extendable Rigid Video Borescope with enhanced digital recording capabilities to the company's extensive line of rugged, high performance sectional, extendable borescopes.

13 Jan 2009

BetaLED Luminaires Key to Efficient Lighting at Parking Structure

BetaLED luminaires were unveiled yesterday at the University of California, Davis' Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center For The Performing Arts' parking structure, Davis, CA. LED fixtures, featuring activity-sensing technology adapted and developed at the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) at UC Davis, provide enhanced nighttime visibility and reduce energy consumption by up to 80 percent.

13 Jan 2009

Matisse Networks Receive Patent for Optical Burst Receiver

Matisse Networks, pioneer in the field of optical burst switching (OBS) and the unique EtherBurst® packet WDM system, announced today that it has been awarded a patent (U.S. Patent No. 7,436,920 B2) on optical burst receiver technology that provides key functionality for optical burst switching. The patent covers an innovation on receiving optical burst transmissions using a charge pump PLL with loop stabilization to improve the reliability and performance of the receive function of the optical burst transponder.

13 Jan 2009

Photonics Innovation Awards will be Presented at Photonics West 2009

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Laurin Publishing, publisher of Photonics Media, have announced the 67 finalist companies for the 2008 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, the premier competition for the photonics industry worldwide.

13 Jan 2009

Visually Challenged MIT Poet's 'Seeing Machine' Allows Sight-Impaired to Take Photos

The demonstration comes more than 20 years after Goldring, a senior fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and colleagues began work on a "seeing machine" that can allow some people who are blind or visually challenged to access the Internet, view the face of a friend and much more.

13 Jan 2009

Researchers Use Streamlined Polarization to Boost Performance of LEDs

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed and demonstrated a new type of light emitting diode (LED) with significantly improved lighting performance and energy efficiency.

13 Jan 2009

Flexible photodetectors Could Revolutionize Photography and Other Imaging Technologies

Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past. University of Wisconsin-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma and colleagues have developed a flexible light-sensitive material that could revolutionize photography and other imaging technologies.

13 Jan 2009

New Application of PAT Worth its Weight in Gold to Breast Cancer Patients

Information obtained from a new application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in gold to breast cancer patients.

13 Jan 2009

Finding Opens Way to Large Number of Promising Applications

Terahertz cascade lasers are a new family of semi-conductor lasers which emit in the frequency range of the terahertz, or 1012 hertz. Because of their potential applications, they currently raise considerable interest, despite one major drawback: their output beam is markedly divergent.

13 Jan 2009

Avo Photonics Celebrates Its 5th Year of Continuous Operations

Avo Photonics was founded November, 2003 by Dr. Joseph Dallas and Mr. David Winick as an advanced custom opto-electronic design and contract manufacturing house serving customers in the military, aerospace, medical, and telecommunications markets.

13 Jan 2009

GigOptix GX6155 Shipping Production Quantity to Global Customers

GigOptix, Inc. (OTCBB:GGOX) a leading provider of electronic engines for the optically connected digital world announces that their GX6155, ceramic packaged Mach-Zehnder modulator driver integrated circuit (IC) is now shipping in full production. The GX6155 has successfully passed 1000 hours of High Temperature Operating Life (HTOL) Test and has begun volume shipments to global customers.

13 Jan 2009

Patients and Astronauts Benefit from NEI-NASA Collaboration

A compact fiber-optic probe developed for the space program has now proven valuable for patients in the clinic as the first non-invasive early detection device for cataracts, the leading cause of vision loss worldwide.

12 Jan 2009

NIST Award Granted to DST for Civil Infrastructure Fiber Optic Sensing System Development

On January 6, 2009, NIST announced that it created nine awards under its newly formed Technology Innovation Program (TIP), for developing the next generation of structural health monitoring systems for large infrastructure elements. Distributed Sensor Technologies, Inc. (DST), of Santa Clara, Calif., has been selected as a recipient for a program entitled "Fiber Sensing System for Civil Infrastructure Health Monitoring."

12 Jan 2009