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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

DOE Approves Construction Start of NSLS-II Project at Brookhaven National Laboratory

To advance its science mission that focuses on critical national challenges, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has approved the construction start of the state-of-the-art National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

12 Jan 2009

Solutions Enable Tunable White Lighting with Highest-lumen LEDs

Cypress's intelligent lighting solutions simplify white lighting designs by giving users the ability to select white light temperatures points on a gamut in PSoC Designer 5.0 software. Cypress has integrated the XLamp device specifications and temperature characteristics into the content library of PSoC Designer 5.0 software, which supports Cypress's EZ-Color™ LED controllers.

12 Jan 2009

QED Technologies Announces Release of Aspheric Stitching Interferometer

QED Technologies (QED), provider of Magnetorheological Finishing (MRF®) polishing and Subaperture Stitching Interferometry (SSI®) metrology platforms for the precision optics industry, today announced the release of its Aspheric Stitching Interferometer (ASI™), the newest in its line of metrology systems.

12 Jan 2009

3M MicroTouch DST Selected as Touch Interface for New Commercial Display by ViewSonic

3M Touch Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 3M Company and a leading innovator and manufacturer of touch technology, and ViewSonic® Corporation, a leading global provider of visual display products, join in announcing today at the 2009 International CES that ViewSonic has selected the 3M MicroTouch DST Touch System as the touch interface for its new commercial display, the CD4220T.

11 Jan 2009

Infrared Mapping of Strain Fields in Semiconductors

A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale resolved infrared mapping of strain fields in semiconductors.

11 Jan 2009

Researchers Illuminate Important Details About Class of Enzymes

Using two simultaneous light-based probing techniques at the U.S. Department of Energy' (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, a team of researchers has illuminated important details about a class of enzymes involved in everything from photosynthesis to the regulation of biological clocks.

10 Jan 2009

Scientists Discover Way to Detect and Pinpoint Excavation of Tunnels

With the same type of fiber optic cables used in telecommunications systems, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a way to detect and pinpoint the excavation of tunnels during times of war, such as those used for smuggling weapons into Gaza. The findings will be presented at the Defense, Security and Sensing Conference of SPIE (an international society advancing light-based research) in April 2009 in Orlando, Florida.

9 Jan 2009

Optical Interconnects Foreseen as Potential Solution to Improve Performance on PWB

Optical interconnects are foreseen as a potential solution to improve the performance of data transmission on printed wiring boards (PWB). Optical interconnects carry data signals as modulation of optical intensity, for instance through an optical waveguide, thus replacing traditional electrical interconnects.

9 Jan 2009