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Panasonic Expands Use of Altera FPGAs by Choosing Low-Power Cyclone 3 Devices

Providing a low-power and quick-time-to-market solution, Altera Corporation announced today that Panasonic has selected Cyclone® III FPGAs for its P2 HD Professional-Broadcast High-Definition Camera-Recorders. The P2 HD AJ-HPX2700 and the P2 HD Handheld AG-HPX170 are part of a new series of tapeless cameras developed by Panasonic to meet the growing worldwide demand for high-definition (HD) broadcast.

28 Jul 2008

Saving Time and Space by Enabling One Optic to Handle Multiple LEDs

Future Lighting Solutions announced today the availability of the new Linear Optic 210 from Polymer Optics Limited designed specifically for linear arrays of LUXEON Rebel LEDs.

28 Jul 2008

Device Will Boost Widespread Adoption of Important Vehicle Safety Features

Renesas Technology America, Inc. today announced the SH77650, a single-chip SoC product optimized for image-recognition processing functions. The new device enables the production of more affordable vehicle information terminals, particularly the next-generation car navigation systems and peripheral devices that can help increase driving safety.

28 Jul 2008

Elbit Systems to Supply MARS to Israeli Defense Forces

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop Ltd. was selected by the Israeli Defense Forces as the supplier of Mars - an innovative thermal imaging and target acquisition system.

28 Jul 2008

Next Generation Optical Storage Systems using Electrically Powered Semiconductor Laser Diodes

Scientists have developed electrically powered semiconductor laser diodes that operate at a shorter wavelength than any others used today. The lasers, described online this week in Nature Photonics ("A 342-nm ultraviolet AlGaN multiplequantum-well laser diode"), could be used for the next generation of optical storage systems following today's Blu-ray disks, and will have applications in biomedicine, materials processing and microchip manufacture.

28 Jul 2008

Harvard University Demonstrates Highly Directional Semiconductor Lasers

Applied scientists at Harvard University in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, highly directional semiconductor lasers with a much smaller beam divergence than conventional ones. The innovation opens the door to a wide range of applications in photonics and communications. Harvard University has also filed a broad patent on the invention.

27 Jul 2008

Pirelli Group Forms Strategic Alliance in Integrated Photonics

The Pirelli Group and CyOptics, Inc. announce the formation of a strategic alliance in integrated photonics.

25 Jul 2008

ICOP Digital Receives Purchase Orders for Digital In-Car Video Systems

ICOP Digital, Inc., an industry-leading company engaged in advancing digital surveillance solutions, today announced that the Company has received purchase orders from two new customers in Alabama and Ohio for ICOP Model 20/20(R)-W digital in-car video systems.

25 Jul 2008

Fujitsu Expands Manufacturing Capacity at Richardson Headquarters

Fujitsu Network Communications, a leading supplier of innovative optical and wireless networking solutions, announced today that they are expanding manufacturing capacity at their Richardson, Texas, headquarters.

25 Jul 2008

Raytheon Showcases Third Generation Infrared Sensor Technology

Raytheon Company demonstrated its third generation infrared sensor technology to the Army last month at the Network Centric Systems production facility in McKinney.

25 Jul 2008

LDK Solar to Purchase Furnaces Used in the Manufacturing of ingots under Agreement

LDK Solar Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, announced today that it has signed a contract to purchase production equipment from China-based JYT Corporation.

25 Jul 2008

Hubble Space Telescope Providing Scientists With Largest Sample of Distant Galaxies

By using the gravitational magnification from six massive lensing galaxy clusters, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided scientists with the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to date. Some of the newly found magnified objects are dimmer than the faintest ones seen in the legendary Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which is usually considered the deepest image of the Universe.

24 Jul 2008

Innovative Glasses Making it Easier for People with Impaired Vision to Drive

Glasses embedded with a telescope promise to make it easier for people with impaired vision to drive and do other activities requiring sharper distance vision. Schepens Eye Research Institute scientists describe the advantages of these innovative glasses over earlier devices in an article published in the May/June issue of Journal of Biomedical Optics, mailed in print form to subscribers this month.

24 Jul 2008

High Heat Thermoplastic Light Bulbs Make Safe Replacements for Teflon Coated Glass Globes

Bravadus are manufacturing new high heat thermoplastic vapor-tight protective globe for industrial light fixtures. The Bravadus high heat thermoplastic globe replaces Teflon coated glass globes in food, beverage and pharmaceutical processing applications where containment of shattered glass is required to protect workers and products from contamination from broken glass.

24 Jul 2008

Versatile High Power LED Driver for Up to 30 Watts with Integrated MOSFET

Power Analog Microelectronics (PAM), a developer of innovative Class-D digital audio amplifiers and high- power LED display driver semiconductors, today announced its first high- voltage 30 watt LED Driver with integrated MOSFET based on the Bipolar-CMOS- DMOS (BCD) Technology developed at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC).

24 Jul 2008