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Kotura Announces Partnership to Bring New Silicon Photonics Products

Kotura, Inc., a leading provider of silicon photonic components, and Oki Optical Components, a leading supplier of very high speed optical and IC components for Ethernet and Telecom applications, today announced that they are partnering to bring new products to the market place.

21 Feb 2008

Fiber Optic Splicer Provides Greater Thermal Control and Lower Insertion Loss

In the world of fiber optic splicing, it’s been the choice of two technologies: electric arc fusion or filament splicing. Not anymore.

21 Feb 2008

Camera Revealed Some Amazing Things

Venus Express has revealed a planet of extraordinarily changeable and extremely large-scale weather. Bright hazes appear in a matter of days, reaching from the south pole to the low southern latitudes and disappearing just as quickly. Such 'global weather', unlike anything on Earth, has given scientists a new mystery to solve.

21 Feb 2008

X-Rayed the Dark Matter

A University of British Columbia astronomer with an international team has discovered the largest structures of dark matter ever seen. Measuring 270 million light-years across, these dark matter structures criss-cross the night sky, each spanning an area that is eight times larger than the full moon.

21 Feb 2008

Unleashing Powerful Bursts of X-Rays

Observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have revealed that the youngest known pulsing neutron star has thrown a temper tantrum. The collapsed star occasionally unleashes powerful bursts of X-rays, which are forcing astronomers to rethink the life cycle of neutron stars.

21 Feb 2008

Creating Lasers Working at Wavelengths Currently Inaccessible

Scientists hope that research being conducted in Binghamton University’s Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy will create lasers that work at wavelengths currently inaccessible.

21 Feb 2008

New Cornell Electron Microscope Takes Color Pictures

A new electron microscope recently installed in Cornell's Duffield Hall is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms in a crystal and see how those atoms bond to one another. And in living color.

21 Feb 2008

Giant Camera will Survey the Sky 1000 Times Faster

Today (21 February 2008) the Science and Technology Facility Council's UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh shipped its biggest and most complex ever instrument.

21 Feb 2008

Solar Cell Efficiency Boosted by Nanoparticles

The electrons in nanoparticles of noble metal oscillate together apace with the frequency of the light. This phenomenon can be exploited to produce better and cheaper solar cells, scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have shown.

21 Feb 2008

Helping Customers to Select the Right Component

The Machine Vision Lenses & Peripherals Catalogue from Moritex has been designed as an informative technical resource to help customers select the correct components to achieve an optimised imaging solution for their Machine Vision application.

21 Feb 2008

World’s First MRI-Compatible Image-Guided Surgical Robot

Johnson Medtech, the medical products network of Johnson Electric, one of the world’s largest providers of motion actuators, today announced its participation in creating the neuroArm, the world’s first MRI-compatible image-guided surgical robot capable of both microsurgery and stereotaxy.

21 Feb 2008

Cymer Today Announces Shipment of its 100th XLA 6kHz Laser

Prior to SPIE Advanced Lithography 2008, Cymer, Inc., the world's leading supplier of light sources used in semiconductor lithography, announced today the shipment of its 100th XLA 6kHz laser - the industry's first production-worthy light source for 45nm immersion lithography - to a high-volume manufacturer.

20 Feb 2008

Creating a Strong Impact in the Automotive Industry

The Electronics & Security practice at Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce its 2008 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on the Automotive LED Market to be held on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 8:00 a.m. PST.

20 Feb 2008

Tunable Lasers Becoming Key Element in Fiber Optic Measurement and Sensing

Luna Innovations Incorporated announces its highly anticipated tunable laser product, the Phoenix 1000, under its Luna Technologies brand of test and measurement products.

20 Feb 2008

GVI Provides Video Surveillance Security Solutions for Pharmacy Retailers

GVI Security Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of video security surveillance solutions featuring the complete Samsung Electronics line of products, today announced that it will provide a video surveillance security solution for over eighty locations of a Major Nationwide Pharmacy Retailer.

20 Feb 2008