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Collaborative Agreement Focusing on Optical Packet Switching Technologies

Alcatel-Lucent and NTT today announced that they have signed a collaborative agreement focusing on optical packet switching technologies. The collaborative agreement was signed yesterday between Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs research organization and NTT's Photonics Labs in a private signing ceremony.

14 May 2008

New 5th Generation Laser Essential Part of iLASIK Technology Suite

Advanced Medical Optics, Inc., a global leader in ophthalmic surgical devices and eye care products, today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for the iFS Advanced Femtosecond Laser.

14 May 2008

Technique Could Revolutionize Human Protein Imaging

Protein crystallographers have only scratched the surface of the human proteins important for drug interactions because of difficulties crystallizing the molecules for synchrotron x-ray diffraction.

13 May 2008

PhotoMedex Receives FDA Clearance to Market New Excimer Laser

PhotoMedex, Inc., a leader in the development of proprietary excimer laser and fiber optic systems as well as techniques directed toward dermatological applications, today announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510k clearance to market the new, more powerful, faster XTRAC® Velocity(TM) excimer laser system to treat psoriasis, vitiligo, atopic dermatitis and leukoderma.

13 May 2008

Significantly Reduce Development Period of Image Interface and Processing Algorithm

Tokyo Electron Device Limited (TED) has today announced the inrevium "TB-3S-1400AN-IMG/TB-3S-3400DSP-IMG", an imaging application evaluation platform equipped with Xilinx Spartan-3 AN/A-DSP FPGA.

13 May 2008

Small Package, Minimal External Components Help Drive Down Costs

Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc., a developer of power management semiconductors for mobile consumer electronic devices, announced today the AAT3102 and AAT3103 constant frequency, charge-pump-based, current source white LED (WLED) drivers.

13 May 2008

Avago Technologies Announces New Compact Optical Incremental Encoder Modules for Automation Equipment

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced a new series of compact three-channel high temperature optical incremental encoder modules for use in industrial and factory automation equipment.

13 May 2008

Firecomms Bringing High Speed Plastic Optical Fiber Networks into Residential, Offices and Institutions

Firecomms Ltd., a leading developer of high speed Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) transceivers and Visible Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs), and Information Systems Management Solutions (ISMS), a world renowned leader in the design and deployment of broadband community IP networks, today announce an alliance to bring high-performance plastic optical fiber networks based on Firecomms technology into residential (single family-and multiple dwelling units), offices and institutions for the support of broadband applications.

13 May 2008

Ultra Compact Red-Green-Blue Chip-Based Lasers for Miniature Projectors

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer electronics, industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced that it will exhibit at the Society of Information (SID) Display Week 2008 in booth 659 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA and will host private demonstrations of its high power miniature prototype BrightLase® Red-Green-Blue "RGB" laser.

13 May 2008

The World’s First High Definition CT Scanner

GE Healthcare, a global leader in imaging and in dose reduction technologies, has announced U.S. Food + Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of the LightSpeed CT750 HD, the world's first high definition CT scanner. LightSpeed CT750 HD will set the new standard for CT clarity, delivering the vision and the tools to allow clinicians to diagnose quickly and confidently.

13 May 2008

Concentrating and Directing Light Precisely to Where it is Needed

Light-emitting diodes save energy. In terms of their light output, however, they have so far been unable to compete with light bulbs. A new, low-priced optical component is set to change that situation: It concentrates the light and directs it precisely to where it is needed.

13 May 2008

Soldering Optical Components Instead of Gluing

Lenses in optical devices are kept in place by adhesives. This can cause problems when the microscopes and cameras are employed inside a vacuum, as the adhesives may release gases that contaminate the lenses. One alternative is to solder them instead.

13 May 2008

Using Lasers to Exchange Data

Satellites currently use radio waves to exchange data. Now the data rate has been increased a hundredfold by using lasers instead of radio signals. Two test satellites each carried a diode laser pump module developed with the help of Fraunhofer researchers.

13 May 2008

Manufacturer's First Choice in Inspecting Mission-Critical Parts, Components and Assembled Products

Moritex has announced a new technical report entitled 'Borescope inspection critical to vital manufacturing processes' for engineers and technicians involved with inspecting parts, components and products manufactured by metal machining, welding, casting and electric discharge machining (EDM).

13 May 2008

Sunfilm's Annual Capacity to Over 120MWp with Second Production Line

Due to strong demand for its solar modules, Sunfilm AG announced today that it has awarded Applied Materials, Inc. a contract for a second Applied SunFab(TM) Thin Film Line. This second production line will be installed next to Sunfilm's first line in Grossroehrsdorf, near Dresden, Germany.

13 May 2008