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ESO’s Latest Facility Upgrade Features Four New TOPTICA Guide Star Lasers on Cerro Paranal

On April 26th, the impressive Four-Laser Guide Star Facility (4LGSF) was fully operational for the first time at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the Paranal Observatory in Chile. During the preceding verification phase, a team of TOPTICA and ESO engineers successfully completed the required system tests. This is a major step towards the completion of the Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF) and evident proof of the capability of TOPTICA’s ground-breaking guide star solution.

From TOPTICA Photonics 3 May 2016

Record Optical Nonlinearity Introduces New Paradigm in Photonics Applications

Photonics applications largely depend on nonlinear optics, which can be defined as the different way materials act based on the intensity of light that passes through them. The fact is that the more the nonlinearity, the more potential a material has for use in real-life applications.

3 May 2016

Frontier Communications to Deploy Additional Fiber Technology to Homes and Businesses in Hartford’s North End

Frontier Communications announced an additional investment in Hartford, Connecticut that will increase speeds and deploy additional fiber technology to businesses and homes in the north end of the city. Fiber-optic technology is the fastest and most reliable network to deliver vital broadband services.

3 May 2016

Amerlux Introduces Innovative Exterior Pedestrian Lighting for Commercial Markets

Integrating the utilitarian form factor of a post top lantern with the aesthetics of a glowing light stick, Amerlux introduces Lunetta as an innovative and impressive pedestrian-scale exterior luminaire family that self-illuminates a curved funnel shaped top head as well as the pole, creating a seamless, glare-free light post of varying heights.

3 May 2016

Larson Electronics Launches 18W industrial LED Spotlight for Outdoor Environments

Larson Electronics, an industrial lighting specialist, has announced the release of a new 18 watt magnetically mounted LED spotlight constructed for industrial use and approved for outdoor environments.

3 May 2016

POET Signs Definitive Agreement to Purchase DenseLight Semiconductors

POET Technologies Inc. (the “Company” or “POET”), a developer of opto-electronics fabrication processes for the semiconductor industry, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement (the "Agreement") to acquire all the shares of DenseLight Semiconductors Pte. Ltd. (“DenseLight”), a private designer, manufacturer and provider of photonic sensing and optical light source products.

2 May 2016

Northwestern University Researchers Use Light-Powered 3-D Printer to Develop Novel Terahertz Lens

From visible light to radio waves, most people are familiar with the different sections of the electromagnetic spectrum. But one wavelength is often forgotten, little understood, and, until recently, rarely studied. It's called terahertz, and it has important applications in imaging and communications.

2 May 2016

NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Helps Astronomers Connect Blazar Blast to Cosmic Neutrino

Nearly 10 billion years ago, the black hole at the center of a galaxy known as PKS B1424-418 produced a powerful outburst. Light from this blast began arriving at Earth in 2012. Now astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other space- and ground-based observatories have shown that a record-breaking neutrino seen around the same time likely was born in the same event.

30 Apr 2016

New High-Performance Sigma Global Vision Lens Converter Now Available for Sony E-Mount Cameras

Sigma Corporation of America, a leading DSLR lens, camera, flash and accessory manufacturer, today announced the immediate availability of its new high-performance Sigma Global Vision lens converter -- the Mount Converter MC-11 -- for Sony E-mount, full frame and APS-C sensor cameras.

30 Apr 2016

MDA US Systems to Build Camera Focus Mechanisms for NASA-JPL Mars 2020 Rover Instrument

Space Systems Loral (SSL), a leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced that MDA US Systems, a division of MDA managed by SSL, will design and build the camera focus mechanisms for the NASA-JPL Mars 2020 Rover instrument, named SHERLOC, which will be used to research the surface of Mars and to support the selection of return samples. The Company is providing the focus mechanism to Malin Space Science Systems, a leader in space camera systems working directly with JPL on the Mars Rover cameras.

30 Apr 2016

Ford Makes Strobe Warning LED Lights Available to F-150 Fleet Customers

Ford, America’s truck leader and the only automaker to offer an available factory-installed strobe warning LED light kit, is making strobe lights available to F-150 fleet customers for the first time.

30 Apr 2016

Enhancing Flaw Inspection With the Olympus IPLEX NX

Olympus has launched its new IPLEX® NX videoscope, featuring industry-leading image quality, manoeuvrability and intuitive operation to streamline the location, identification and measurement of previously undetectable flaws.

29 Apr 2016

EyeVision’s Image Processing Software Helps Ensure Zero Error Production in Bottling Plant

Quality control is essential in production plants. Also for the food and beverage production. It doesn't matter if it is packaging, labeling or the cap, zero error production is a necessity. To guarantee a zero error production the image processing software (such as the EyeVision software) and the appropriate hardware such as smart cameras are getting more and more powerful. This leads one to believe that there is already an image processing solution for each machine vision application.

29 Apr 2016

Glass Refractive Index Measurement Solution From CRAIC Technologies

rIQ™ from CRAIC Technologies is designed to help the forensic scientist measure the refractive index of glass quickly, accurately and easily using the ASTM E1967 methodology.

From CRAIC Technologies, Inc. 28 Apr 2016

Legrand Showcases New Wattstopper DLM Solutions at LIGHTFAIR International

Legrand, North America is exhibiting its newest solutions from leading product lines Wattstopper, Vantage and QMotion at Lightfair International Booth #4726 from April 26-28, 2016.

28 Apr 2016