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TSB Invests £10 Million for More Energy Efficient Lighting, Lasers and Displays

Research and development into the integration and advancement of more energy efficient lighting, lasers and displays is set to be stimulated through a £10 million investment by the Technology Strategy Board.

7 Jan 2008

Breakthrough in Ultra-Compact LED-Illuminated Projection Engine

3M is now providing consumer electronics manufacturers with a revolutionary advancement in the emerging field of miniature projection technology. 3M scientists developed a breakthrough ultra-compact, LED-illuminated projection engine designed for integration into virtually any personal electronic device.

6 Jan 2008

Fibre Lasers Opens the Door to New Applications

The two main goals of the project were to develop ultra-fast laser systems operating at different wavelengths, and to develop and test broadband fibre sources.

6 Jan 2008

ESI Announces Initiative to Increase Global Sales and Support Infrastructure

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for micro-engineering applications, today announced that it will directly represent its memory repair products in Japan and separate from Canon Marketing Japan Inc., its distributor.

6 Jan 2008

Ondax Introduces Wavelength Stabilized Laser Diodes

Ondax, a leading manufacturer of Volume Holographic Gratings, expands its product portfolio with the introduction of Wavelength Stabilized 405nm Laser Diodes. The stabilized lasers have a single-mode, narrow linewidth, very low temperature dependence and a coherence length of 1 meter. The lasers exhibit stable interference fringes after greater than 6 meters path length difference.

5 Jan 2008

Switched On To New Technology

Researchers are developing new technology that could replace the household light-bulb within three years.

5 Jan 2008

FTTH Expands Its Reach into Asia-Pacific

Broadband access in the Asia-Pacific region has experienced significant growth in the past decade, as operators have upgraded their networks in anticipation of future demand for high-bandwidth services. In a new study focused on residential FTTH in APAC, ABI Research finds that different markets within the region are currently in very different stages of broadband growth.

5 Jan 2008

Cobra Electronics Announces Newly Designed Full-Color Radar Detectors

Chicago-based Cobra Electronics today announced the launch of its new Super-Xtreme Range Superheterodyne(TM) Maximum Performance 12 Band(TM) 2008 radar line. Following the success of the wireless remote controlled XRS R9G, the new line once again offers drivers detection of the fastest radar and laser guns -- including POP Mode and KU-Band-high-resolution full-color displays and other Cobra radar mainstay features drivers have come to rely on. Cobra's 2008 radar products offer maximum performance at prices that challenge competitors' products with less features and higher prices.

4 Jan 2008

HiperScan Showcases Compact and Rugged Near-Infrared Spectrometers

HiperScan GmbH is presenting their Scanning Grating Spectrometers at PittCon Exhibition 2008, March 2-7 at New Orleans.

4 Jan 2008

OSRAM Wins Prize for Their Development of LED-Based Illumination Modules

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has carried out pioneering work in the development of thin-film LEDs – supported by Fraunhofer researchers from Jena. The team of researchers has won the German Future Prize 2007 for their development of LED-based illumination modules.

4 Jan 2008

KITECH Licenses Visual Pattern Recognition Technology

Evolution Robotics, Inc., a leading provider of breakthrough robotic technologies for consumer products, today announced that the Korean Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) has licensed their ViPR® visual pattern recognition technology for incorporation into KITECH's national robot platform Software Development Kit (SDK).

3 Jan 2008

Mobius Photonics Enters Exclusive Licensing Agreement with Harvard University

Mobius Photonics Inc. announced today that it has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Harvard University regarding United States patent #5,745,284. The patent is based on the pioneering work of Lew Goldberg, Dahv Kliner, and Jeffrey Koplow. It broadly covers UV laser sources based on the harmonic wavelength conversion of the output of a seeded amplifier, particularly a fiber amplifier.

3 Jan 2008