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InfoComm 2016: 3M Unveils New Multi-Touch PCAP Display with Ultrafine Metal Mesh Design

When it comes to upholding multi-touch display performance in heavy-use commercial settings, quality touch performance, design and dependability is key. Debuting this week at InfoComm 2016 in 3M booth N1947 is the 3M Multi-Touch Projected Capacitive (PCAP) Display C6587PW 65-inch with Ultrafine Metal Mesh Design.

8 Jun 2016

Swiss Researchers Develop New Design for X-Ray Spectrometers

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute’s Swiss Light Source in Villigen, Switzerland, have developed a new design for X-ray spectrometers that eschews a commonly utilized component to lowers overall production costs and increase the efficiency of x-ray flux, which may lead to faster acquisition times for sample imaging and increased efficiency for the system.

8 Jun 2016

Laser Research CO2 Laser Optics for Promoting Sharper Cuts with Fewer Passes

A line of CO2 laser optics optimized for 10.6 microns that are in-stock for popular etching, marking, and thin metal cutting lasers are available from Laser Research Optics of Providence, Rhode Island.

8 Jun 2016

Researchers Develop Inexpensive, Versatile Micro-Raman System

Raman spectroscopy has the ability to provide detailed chemical information. It also holds the potential to analyze biological samples non-destructively in combination with a microscope.

7 Jun 2016

Breakthrough Method Could Produce Purer, More Stable Pulses in X-ray Lasers

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have developed a method that could open up new scientific avenues by making the light from powerful X-ray lasers much more stable and its color more pure.

7 Jun 2016

Elemental LED Announces Collaboration with Legacy Lighting

Elemental LED, a leading U.S. based engineering and technology company that manufactures LED lighting solutions announced today a partnership with Legacy Lighting that extends its Diode LED product brand into Austin, TX and the surrounding area.

3 Jun 2016

French Laser Society Meeting to Feature Presentation on New Clinical Results of UltraPulse CO2 Laser System

Lumenis Ltd., the world’s largest energy-based medical device company for surgical, aesthetic and ophthalmic applications, announced that results from the clinical case series analyzing the UltraPulse® CO2 laser system will be presented at the upcoming Journee Parisienne Du Laser, a French laser society meeting that will be held in Paris from June 3-4, 2016.

3 Jun 2016

Researchers Demonstrate First Planar Lens Working with High Efficiency in Visible Spectrum

Curved lenses, like those in cameras or telescopes, are stacked in order to reduce distortions and resolve a clear image. That’s why high-power microscopes are so big and telephoto lenses so long.

3 Jun 2016

Scientists Fabricate Tiny Lasers Directly on Silicon

A group of scientists from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; the University of California, Santa Barbara; Sandia National Laboratories and Harvard University were able to fabricate tiny lasers directly on silicon -- a huge breakthrough for the semiconductor industry and well beyond.

3 Jun 2016

Äpre Instruments Introduces New Affordable, High Performance Interferometer

Äpre Instruments, a leader in interferometry for research, quality control and high volume production, introduced today their new S100 | HR high performance laser Fizeau interferometer for optical manufacturing.

3 Jun 2016

Optogenetics Could Help Treat Fear-Related Diseases

Raül Andero Galí, a researcher at Harvard University and one of the heads of the "Neurobiology of Stress and Addiction" research team at the Institut de Neurociències (INc) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), published a research paper in which memory was increased using optogenetics. This is the first time light stimulation has been utilized to boost memory.

2 Jun 2016

Optovue Announces Commercial Availability of AngioVue Retina Imaging System

Optovue, the global leader in the development of optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography (OCTA), today announced immediate availability of AngioVue™ Retina, a proprietary imaging system that provides retina specialists with a non-invasive, dyeless way to quickly visualize blood flow in the retina, the light sensitive portion in the back of the eye.

2 Jun 2016

CIOE Announces Launch of CIOE Photonics Innovation Pavilion at 2016 Show

Optoelectronics/photonics technology has rapidly advanced in terms of innovation and application over the last several years, covering applications in communications, consumer electronics, displays, defense & security technology, and measurement and remote sensing.

2 Jun 2016

Advanced Optical Techniques Enable Researchers to Image Explosions at High Resolution

Director David Lean found it easy to wreck a train with great precision during the filming of "Lawrence of Arabia".

1 Jun 2016

ISSI Launches New LED Driver IC for Automotive Interior Lighting

A single chip solution for automotive interior lighting has been launched by Integrated Silicon Solution (ISSI), a key provider of sophisticated memory and analog IC solutions.

1 Jun 2016