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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

Company Ships More Than 750,000 10G Transceivers

Opnext, Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacturing of optical modules and components, today announced that the Company has shipped more than 750,000 10G transceivers to its global customer base. As an industry leader in 10G and above transceivers, Opnext offers a broad portfolio of products in the 10G family including 300 pin, XENPAK, X2, XPAK, XFP and SFP+, encompassing all port types within these form factors.

22 Sep 2008

Paving the Way for Next Generation Optical Networks

A new EU-funded project to boost the capacity and efficiency of the next generation of optical networks has just got underway. The PHASORS ('Phase sensitive amplifier systems and optical regenerators and their applications') initiative is funded under the 'Information and communication technology' (ICT) Theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to the tune of EUR 3.9 million.

21 Sep 2008

New Line of Silicon-Based Products and Ultra VOA Arrays Now Available from AMS Technologies

A new line of silicon-based products and ultra VOA arrays is available from AMS Technologies in Germany. The manufacturer is Kotura, Inc. is a worldwide leader in silicon photonics.

20 Sep 2008

TNO's Star Separators Successfully Tested

The PRIMA facility with TNO's Star Separators was successfully tested during a "first light" test at the beginning of September. PRIMA will set a new benchmark in astrometry and will enable exoplanet detection with high precision astrometric measurements as well as imaging of faint objects.

19 Sep 2008

First Light for the PRIMA Instrument

The PRIMA instrument of the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) recently saw "first light" at its new home atop Cerro Paranal in Chile. When fully operational, PRIMA will boost the capabilities of the VLTI to see sources much fainter than any previous interferometers, and enable astrometric precision unmatched by any other existing astronomical facility.

19 Sep 2008

SOLX Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance to Perform Titanium:Sapphire Laser Trabeculoplasty

SOLX, Inc. announced today U.S. Food and Drug (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the SOLX 790 to perform Titanium:Sapphire laser trabeculoplasty (TLT). The 510(k) clearance was based on the results of a multi-center, international clinical trial that established equivalency of TLT to ALT in the ability to reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients having primary open angle glaucoma and poorly controlled IOP on maximally tolerated medications and/or prior failed trabeculoplasty. The laser had previously been approved for sale in Europe and Canada.

18 Sep 2008

Zecotek Achieves Breakthrough Performance With 3D2D Display System

Zecotek Photonics Inc. today announced the latest performance parameters of its 3D2D Display System and that the Company is preparing for negotiations with selected OEMs. The enhancements to the 3D technology include significant improvements in overall clarity, increasing concurrent perspectives twofold (from 40 to 80) and increasing the effective 3D viewing angle from 25 to 40 degrees.

18 Sep 2008

Popular Voting Open for Annual Competition of Photography Under the Microscope

For the second consecutive year, Nikon Instruments is opening up its Small World Photomicrography Competition for the public to choose its favorite image for recognition as the Popular Vote winner. Visitors to www.nikonsmallworld.com have until 5:00 pm EDT on Friday, October 10th to vote for their favorite "winning image" from among the top 115 finalists chosen by this year's panel of judges from over 2,000 entries.

18 Sep 2008