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Dual-Use Housing Provides Multi-Lane and Multi-Vehicle Speed Enforcement

An innovative next-generation solution from VITRONIC now enables police forces to provide fixed and mobile speed enforcement from a single solution. The 'dual-use' housing system consists of LIDAR (laser-based) technology which captures speeding vehicles on up to 3 lanes in a single direction.

23 Sep 2008

Industry’s First 5-Megapixel SOC With 1/4" Optical Format

Aptina Imaging, a leading provider of CMOS image sensors to the industry's most popular, mainstream and high-end mobile phone manufacturers announced today the launch of the industry's first 5MP SOC (System on a ...

23 Sep 2008

AMO Names Dr. Simon Kilvington Director of Microbiology

Advanced Medical Optics, Inc., the global leader in advanced refractive technologies for eye care professionals and patients, has named Simon Kilvington, Ph.D., director of microbiology.

23 Sep 2008

OmniVision Introduces World's First 1/3-inch 8 Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading independent supplier of CMOS image sensors, today introduced the world's first 1/3-inch, 8 megapixel CMOS image sensor. The new OV8810 is the company's first CameraChip product to use its recently launched 1.4 micron OmniBSI(TM) backside illumination technology.

23 Sep 2008

New Ultra Low Loss ROADM Meets Requirements for 40 Gbps Operation in Next Gen Networks

NeoPhotonics and ECI Telecom today announced here at the European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2008) that NeoPhotonics' new Ultra-Low Loss Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) modules are being used in ECI Telecom's XDM® Optical Networking Platform. The Ultra-Low Loss ROADM incorporates NeoPhotonics' advanced planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology to significantly reduce the insertion loss and increase the pass band, thus meeting the requirements for next generation 40 Gbps optical transmission systems.

23 Sep 2008

Applied Optoelectronics Announces Pluggable Transceiver for WDM-PONs

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AOI), a leading manufacturer of laser diodes, photodetectors, and optical modules for fiber optic communications systems, today announces a small form-factor pluggable transceiver designed for operation in colorless Optical Networking Terminals (ONTs) used in Wavelength Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Networks (WDM-PONs).

22 Sep 2008

CO2 Laser Scalpel Provides Surgeons with No-Touch Surgical Tool For Precision Brain and Spine Surgery

OmniGuide, Inc., announced today the introduction of the new BeamPath NEURO(TM), the first flexible CO2 laser scalpel for neurosurgery. The BeamPath NEURO fiber provides surgeons with a precise, no-touch microsurgical tool for various central nervous system (CNS) procedures, including intracranial tumor surgeries, spine tumor surgeries and transnasal pituitary surgeries. BeamPath NEURO is designed for operating near critical structures, for accessing difficult to reach regions of the brain and for minimizing thermal injury to adjacent healthy tissue of the brain or spine.

22 Sep 2008

Miniature Image-Capturing Technology Powered by Water, Sound, and Surface Tension

New miniature image-capturing technology powered by water, sound, and surface tension could lead to smarter and lighter cameras in everything from cell phones and automobiles to autonomous robots and miniature spy planes.

22 Sep 2008

Schreiner ProTech Applying Revolutionary Laser Technology to ImprovE Airbag Reliability

Schreiner ProTech today announced it is applying a revolutionary laser technology-based manufacturing process to the production of automotive airbag wraps, improving airbag reliability and production efficiency.

22 Sep 2008

Using Sun's Rays to Make Variants of Vitamin A

Chemists have traded their white coats for swim shorts at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu - they've shunned the lab so they can swim out to the breakers with a test-tube built into a boogie-board.

22 Sep 2008

University of Essex Awarded Prestigious EU Marie Curie Fellowship to Study Lasers

The Department of Computing and Electronic Systems at the University of Essex has received over £120,000 for a prestigious EU Marie Curie Fellowship.

22 Sep 2008

JDSU Creates Breakthrough New Photonic Integrated Amplifier Platform

JDSU(R) today announced that it has created several new features that will be a critical part of its new photonic integrated amplifier (PIA) platform that was also announced today. These technologies will contribute to the decreased size, improved cost savings, increased performance and reconfigurability of the new amplifier platform that will re-energize weakened network signals traveling long distances over dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) networks.

22 Sep 2008

First-to-Market Extended Reach GPON Radically Changing FTTP Deployment Economics

Calix, the worldwide leader in overall gigabit passive optical network (GPON) equipment revenue (Dell'Oro Group, August 2008), today announced its latest access innovation - a first-to-market Extended Reach GPON technology based on ITU-T standards.

22 Sep 2008

CoreOptics and Partner to Enable Plug-and-Play Metro Optical Networks Based on MLSE-2

CoreOptics Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of 40 Gbps and 10 Gbps optical networking subsystems, and ADVA Optical Networking today announced joint development of the second generation of 10 Gbps Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE-2) technology on ADVA Optical Networking’s FSP 3000 Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) platform.

22 Sep 2008

New Multi-rate 10G Physical Layer Devices Reduce Power Consumption Compared to Competing Solutions

Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced the industry's first family of 65 nanometer (nm) 10 Gigabit (10G) physical layer (PHY) devices that support data rates ranging from 9.953 Gigabits per second (Gbps) to 11.35 Gbps. Combining the industry's lowest power consumption with industry-leading long reach jitter performance, these next generation PHYs are fully integrated, Multi Source Agreement (MSA)-compliant devices that support multi-rate applications including OC-192 SONET/SDH, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), 10G Fibre Channel (10FC), and optical transport networks (OTN).

22 Sep 2008

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Dual-Use Housing Provides Multi-Lane and Multi-Vehicle Speed Enforcement

Industry’s First 5-Megapixel SOC With 1/4" Optical Format

AMO Names Dr. Simon Kilvington Director of Microbiology

OmniVision Introduces World's First 1/3-inch 8 Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor

New Ultra Low Loss ROADM Meets Requirements for 40 Gbps Operation in Next Gen Networks

Applied Optoelectronics Announces Pluggable Transceiver for WDM-PONs

CO2 Laser Scalpel Provides Surgeons with No-Touch Surgical Tool For Precision Brain and Spine Surgery

Miniature Image-Capturing Technology Powered by Water, Sound, and Surface Tension

Schreiner ProTech Applying Revolutionary Laser Technology to ImprovE Airbag Reliability

Using Sun's Rays to Make Variants of Vitamin A

University of Essex Awarded Prestigious EU Marie Curie Fellowship to Study Lasers

JDSU Creates Breakthrough New Photonic Integrated Amplifier Platform

First-to-Market Extended Reach GPON Radically Changing FTTP Deployment Economics

CoreOptics and Partner to Enable Plug-and-Play Metro Optical Networks Based on MLSE-2

New Multi-rate 10G Physical Layer Devices Reduce Power Consumption Compared to Competing Solutions

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