Optics & Photonics News

RSS

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

Cornell Researchers Developed Ultrafast Optical Oscilloscope

As photonics -- using beams of light in place of electricity for communications and computing -- becomes more common, engineers need new tools for troubleshooting. Now researchers at Cornell have created a way to plot the waveform of an ultrashort-lived optical signal with a resolution of less than a trillionth of a second.

5 Nov 2008

Dupont Teijin Films Joins Holst Centre Program on Flexible Organic Lighting and Signage

DuPont Teijin Films, the world's leading differentiated producer of PET and PEN polyester films, joins the Systems-in-Foil program of Holst Centre, a research initiative of the Flemish and Dutch research centers IMEC and TNO. By getting a major substrate vendor on board, Holst Centre gathers the entire ecosystem of industrial players around its Systems-in-Foil program line.

5 Nov 2008

Canadian Scientists Report Progress Toward a New Type of "Liquid Mirror"

Scientists in Canada are reporting progress toward a new type of "liquid mirror" - mirrors made with highly reflective liquids - whose shape can be changed to provide superior optical properties over conventional solid mirrors.

5 Nov 2008

Researchers Develop Multifunctional and High-Energy Laser Beam System

Researchers with the State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, the CAS Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, have been successful in developing a multifunctional and high-energy laser beam system (also known as the ninth laser beam) at the Shenguang-II Laser Facility (SGII).

5 Nov 2008

Cost-Saving 8-Bit Controllers Drive More LCD Segments with Fewer Pins for Wide Range of Applications

Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are proliferating in an ever-growing array of consumer and industrial products. To help meet the demand for efficient, affordable LCDs, Freescale Semiconductor has introduced three 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) families designed to reduce system cost and power in LCD-based embedded applications.

4 Nov 2008