Optics & Photonics News

RSS

Boeing Fires New Thin-Disk Laser

The Boeing Company fired its new thin-disk laser system repeatedly in recent tests, achieving the highest known simultaneous power, beam quality and run time for any solid-state laser to date.

4 Jun 2008

The Most Advanced Digital Displays in the World

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world's largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, and Outdoor Promotions, LLC, announced today that they are collaborating to line the Las Vegas strip with the most advanced digital displays in the world.

4 Jun 2008

Steerable Camera Pill

Images of the inside of the intestine can be obtained even today: The patient swallows a camera that is no larger than a candy. It makes its way through the intestine and transmits images of the intestinal villi to an external receiver which the patient carries on a belt.

4 Jun 2008

Sunovia Energy Awarded LED Lighting Contract

Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a LED lighting contract by the city of Fairview, Texas. The contract calls for Sunovia to provide its energy-efficient EvoLucia(TM) LED lighting products for street lighting within the city.

4 Jun 2008

Sumitomo Electric Reaches the 10 Million Milestone

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., today announced that it has now shipped more than 10 million units of optical transmitters/receivers/transceivers.

3 Jun 2008

Lamina Opens Product Showroom and Design Studio

Lamina Lighting Incorporated (Lamina), the world leader in the development and manufacturer of high-power LED light engines, today announced it has opened The Lamina Design Center, a product showroom and design studio at 336 West 37th Street in Manhattan.

3 Jun 2008

Search for Gravitational Waves has Revealed New Information

An analysis by the international LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration to be submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters has shown that no more than 4 percent of the energy loss of the pulsar is caused by the emission of gravitational waves.

2 Jun 2008

The First Dye Doped Graphite/Graphene Solar Cell

Photovoltaic Solar Cells Inc today announces that it has created a dye doped Graphite/Graphene only solar cell. This solar cell will be produced using the production tool that the company is building.

2 Jun 2008

Fraunhofer IPMS Achieves Major Milestone in OLED-Based Backlights

Fraunhofer IPMS has achieved a major milestone in OLED-based backlights for autostereoscopic 3D displays. For the first time a 3.5" 3D QVGA display will be presented, that is based on a highly-efficient, patterned and controllable OLED backlight.

2 Jun 2008

Contract has a Total Potential Value of $40.4 Million over Five Years

General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, has been awarded a contract by Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to provide the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) with support for submarine periscope, photonic, electro-optic and electromagnetic systems.

2 Jun 2008

KLA-Tencor Corporation Acquires ICOS Vision Systems Corporation

KLA-Tencor Corporation today announced that it has finalized its purchase of the shares of ICOS Vision Systems Corporation NV submitted by shareholders into the tender offer. As a result, effective May 30, 2008, KLA-Tencor owns over 96% of the outstanding shares of ICOS.

2 Jun 2008

Q-Factor Results for Norcada's Silicon Nitride Membrane Windows.

Norcada Inc., a MEMS product development company, announced today that reports out of Yale University show successful Q-factor results for Norcada's silicon nitride membrane windows.

2 Jun 2008

Optical Cable Corporation Acquires Leading Supplier of Fiber Optic Products

Optical Cable Corporation announced today that it has acquired Superior Modular Products Incorporated (doing business as SMP Data Communications), a leading supplier of fiber optic and copper connectivity products for the data communications industry. The transaction was consummated on May 30, 2008, and now SMP Data Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of Optical Cable Corporation.

2 Jun 2008

New Quantitative AFM Mode for High-Resolution Material Mapping

Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, today introduced HarmoniXTM, a powerful new atomic force microscope (AFM) technique for high-resolution nanoscale imaging and analysis. Veeco's HarmoniX Nanoscale Material Property Mapping enables AFM users to simultaneously, and in real-time, acquire high-resolution images as well as high-resolution, quantitative material property maps.

From Veeco 2 Jun 2008

AZoCleantech - The 6th Site in the AZoNetwork Portfolio

The 6th site in the AZoNetwork portfolio builds on the success of AZoM.com the A to Z of Materials, AZoNano.com - the A to Z of Nanotechnology and AZoOptics.com - the A to Z of Optics.

1 Jun 2008