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Consarc Opens New PV Division

Consarc Corporation, an Inductotherm Group (IG) Company, has announced the formation of a new division dedicated solely to the Photovoltaic (PV) industry. Consarc, coordinated with the efforts of other IG companies, will apply its 45+ years of experience in advanced vacuum and controlled atmosphere furnace technologies to the mass production and processing of solar grade silicon.

22 Jan 2008

New Solution Speeds Electromagnetic Simulation of Image Sensors by Up to 20 Times

Acceleware Corp., a leading developer of high performance computing (HPC) applications, and Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, today announced a new hardware solution that enables up to 20-times faster electromagnetic simulation of optoelectronic devices such as CMOS image sensors.

22 Jan 2008

World's Smallest Widely Tunable Transmitter Optical Subassembly

JDSU today announced that it has created the world’s smallest widely tunable transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) for the dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) transceiver market.

22 Jan 2008

New Pump Laser Provides More than 1 kW of Pump Power

Avensys Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Avensys Corporation today announced that its R&D partner, ITF Laboratories Inc. (ITF Labs) has successfully passed all the Telecordia GR-1221-CORE qualification requirements and therefore added another key product to its high power end-coupled fiber combiner family.

22 Jan 2008

Viaspace Enters into Distribution Agreement and Receives Order for Laser Humidity Instrument

VIASPACE Inc., a company that transforms proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions, announced today that the company has entered into a distribution agreement and has received an order for its laser based HS-1000 VIASENSOR relative humidity instrument from Weis Scientific of Israel.

22 Jan 2008

Laserline Selects Bookham's VHB Bar to Support High Brightness Laser Systems

Bookham, Inc., a leading manufacturer of optical components for industrial applications, today announced that Laserline has selected its Very High Brightness (VHB) bar to support their high brightness direct diode laser systems.

22 Jan 2008

IPG Latest Compact Fiber-Coupled Laser Diodes Offers Ultra-Reliable Output Power

IPG Photonics today announced that it is now selling the most powerful and highest brightness fiber-coupled laser diodes on a merchant basis to OEM customers in a variety of industries.

22 Jan 2008

Nichia Begins Shipment of Semiconductor Laser

Nichia Corporation has succeeded in developing 488nm blue-green GaN-based laser diode, will start its shipment from March.

22 Jan 2008

IAM Offers New Laser Training Curriculum

The Institute for Aesthetic Medicine (IAM) announced today the acquisition of Medical Laser Dynamics (MLD). The acquisition delivers a new, full-spectrum laser training program for plastic surgery and dermatology professionals. Participants now have a single laser training resource dedicated to improving patient safety and minimizing professional liability.

22 Jan 2008

Precision Optics Announces Sale of Thin Film Products Optometrics Corporation

Precision Optics Corporation, Inc. today announced the sale of its custom optical thin film product line to Optometrics Corporation, located in Ayer, MA, a subsidiary of Dynasil Corporation of West Berlin, NJ.

22 Jan 2008

DMD Discovery Developer Platform Drives High Performance and Resolution

DLP(R) Technology from Texas Instruments (TI), is highlighting the latest Discovery(TM) 4000 development platform at the Photonics West Show this week -- Booth #5036. The Discovery 4000 enables extremely fast, high contrast and high resolution display applications with an optical semiconductor module that allows developers to manipulate light digitally.

22 Jan 2008

World's First Digital Camera to Hit the One-Million Pictures-Per-Second Mark

Vision Research, a leading manufacturer of high speed digital imaging systems, today marked another world's first with the launch of the Phantom® V12, a revolutionary new high-speed digital camera that can record an amazing 1,000,000 pictures-per-second (pps).

22 Jan 2008