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Pacnet Accelerates Network Upgrades With Infinera's Digital Optical Networking System

Pacnet has selected Infinera as one of its key suppliers to enable rapid network capacity upgrades across strategic parts of its networks in Asia and US.

30 Sep 2008

BAE Developed and Delivered to U.S. Army New Helmet-Mounted Night-Vision Goggle

BAE Systems has developed and delivered to the U.S. Army a new helmet-mounted night-vision goggle system that combines visible, low-light, and infrared imagery for all-weather use in darkness and in other visibility-limiting conditions.

30 Sep 2008

Lucid Receives FDA Clearance to Market VivaScope in U.S.

Lucid, Inc. today announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance to market its VivaScope® System. VivaScope confocal imagers provide noninvasive, in vivo cellular resolution images of skin and are now specifically cleared "...for review by physicians to assist in forming a clinical judgment."

30 Sep 2008

Strategic Analysis of the European Automotive Interior Lighting Markets

Novel interior lighting solutions will radically transform vehicle interiors, while enhancing comfort and convenience. Vehicle manufacturers' (VMs') strategy to adopt different styling cues in interior lighting such as ambient lighting will further boost the penetration of innovative lighting technologies such as light emitting diodes (LEDs). Furthermore, the shift in consumer preference from performance and fuel economy of the vehicle to comfort and convenience will significantly affect the market for interior lighting.

30 Sep 2008

World's First Dot Sight for Heavy Machine Guns

Dong In Optical, a manufacturer of Dot Sights for various military arms in South Korea, introduced their new Dot Sight for heavy machine guns named Model DCL120. This latest invention from Dong In Optical is the world's first Dot Sight for heavy machine guns and will be distributed to various armed force markets in Europe and Northern America.

30 Sep 2008

LayTec Develops new in-situ Sensor for the Photovoltaic Market

LayTec is happy to announce that the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology has approved funding for the development of a new insitu sensor for the photovoltaic market! In collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), Germany, a research project has been launched to improve the in-situ monitoring of MOVPE processes for triple-junction photovoltaic cells being developed at Fraunhofer ISE.

30 Sep 2008

OV5642 Incorporates both OmniBSI(TM) technology and TrueFocus ISP

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading independent supplier of CMOS image sensors, today introduced the world's first 1/4 inch, 5 megapixel system-on-chip (SOC) image sensor based on OmniVision's new OmniBSI(TM) technology. The new OV5642 represents OmniVision's most advanced sensor to date, combining its 1.4-micron OmniBSI pixel with its top of the line TrueFocus(TM) image signal processor (ISP).

29 Sep 2008

Avago Technologies Announces Industry's Smallest Optical Isolation Amplifiers

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced a new series of competitively priced miniature isolation amplifiers in stretched small outline-8 (stretched SO-8) packages for use in a variety of electronic motor drives used in industrial applications.

29 Sep 2008

Future Lighting Solutions Enhances LRCs for LED Lighting Designers

Future Lighting Solutions has enhanced its Lighting Resource Centers (LRCs) for LED lighting designers by investing in state-of-the-art equipment, expanding the workspace, and adding dedicated thermal, optical and electronics engineers. The centers, located in Montreal, Canada, and Shenzhen, China, provide services that help customers reduce the time and expense of implementing LED designs.

29 Sep 2008

Canadian Patent Office Issues Notice of Allowance to Zecotek for LFS Scintillation Material

Zecotek Photonics Inc. today announced that the Canadian Patent Office has issued Notice of Allowance to Zecotek Imaging Systems Singapore Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary, for its LFS scintillation material. This application is identical to the LFS scintillation applications that have been issued or allowed in the U.S., Russia, China, Europe and Japan.

29 Sep 2008

InGaN White Midi DomiLED Developed to Provide Exceptional Quality and Reliability

The InGaN white Midi DomiLED, the newest member of our DomiLED product range from DOMINANT Semiconductors, was developed to provide exceptional quality and reliability by using a small standard footprint providing design flexibility for all applications where space is a decisive factor.

26 Sep 2008

ITT Awarded $153 Million U.S. Army Contract for Night Vision Monoculars

ITT Corporation today announced that its Night Vision business was awarded an order from the U.S. Army Research, Development + Engineering Command Acquisition Center for the AN/PVS-14 night vision monocular. This order for ITT’s most versatile night vision unit is valued at $153 million and is the latest under the Omnibus VII contract awarded by the U.S. Army in September 2005.

25 Sep 2008

Physicists Unveil Novel Process that Promises to Kick-Start Quantum Technology Sector

For years, physicists have been heralding the revolutionary potential of using quantum mechanics to build a new generation of supercomputers, unbreakable codes, and ultra-fast and secure communication networks.

25 Sep 2008

OLED Lighting Market to Reach US $4.5 Billion by 2013

According to a new report from NanoMarkets LC, an industry analyst firm based here, the OLED lighting market will reach almost US $4.5 billion ($US) by 2013 and grow to $5.9 billion by 2015. The firm claims that in the past year the prospects for OLED lighting have made great leaps forward due to improvements in OLED performance and manufacturing.

25 Sep 2008

AMS Technologies Announces Availability of HyBoard Hybrid PIC Platform Throughout Europe

CIP Technologies (CIP) has officially launched the HyBoard(TM) hybrid Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) platform, which is available from AMS Technologies throughout Europe.

25 Sep 2008