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Soraa Launches Flicker Free MR16, at Light + Building Frankfurt Fair

Nobel Laureate Prof. Shuji Nakamura will join Soraa, the company he co-founded and world leader in GaN on GaN™ LED technology, to reveal true advancements in lighting technology at Light + Building, March 13-18 at the Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre, Germany.

14 Mar 2016

NASA Selects Ball Aerospace to Deliver Concept Study for WFIRST Observatory

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by NASA to deliver a concept study for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Wide Field Instrument (WFI), the agency's next major astrophysics project to follow the 2018 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.

14 Mar 2016

OFS to Showcase New TrueLase Active and Passive Optical Fibers at LWPC 2016

OFS, a leading designer, manufacturer, and supplier of innovative fiber optic products will showcase its new TrueLase 10/130 Active and Passive LMA Double-Clad Optical Fibers at the Laser World of Photonics China exhibition in Shanghai, China from 15 through 17 March 2016.

14 Mar 2016

Lunera Lighting Launches LightStream Lighting as a Service

Lunera® Lighting, Inc., a leader in lighting innovations accelerating the transformation to advanced LED technology, is pleased to introduce LightStream™ Lighting as a Service (LaaS). Available now, LightStream is a turnkey service that allows building owners and operators to upgrade their commercial lighting infrastructure to LED with zero capital expense (CapEx).

11 Mar 2016

Synopsys Introduces Latest Version of RSoft Photonic Component Design Suite

Synopsys, Inc. today announced the latest release of its RSoft™ Photonic Component Design Suite, the company's industry-leading software for the design of photonic devices and components used in optical communications, optoelectronics and semiconductor manufacturing.

11 Mar 2016

Urban Solar Receives UL Safety Approval for LED Transit Lighting System

Urban Solar's solar powered LED transit lighting system has been given the nod of approval by the global independent safety giant UL.

11 Mar 2016

Major Asian Foundry Places Follow-on Order for Ultratech’s Laser Spike Anneal System

Ultratech, Inc., a leading supplier of lithography, laser-processing and inspection systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs), as well as atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, today announced that it has received a follow-on order from one of the largest foundries in Asia for its LSA101 laser spike anneal system.

11 Mar 2016

Molex’ Nano-Pitch I/O 80-Circuit Interconnect System for SAS and PCI Express Applications

At DesignCon 2016, Molex, LLC introduced the Nano-Pitch I/O™ 80-Circuit Interconnect System, which offers the highest port density (number of high-speed differential lanes) and speed (25 Gbps per lane) in the smallest package available. A multi-protocol pinout concept enables compatibility with all known SAS, SATA and PCIe protocols and provides enhanced signal integrity in an extremely compact form factor. The connector is ideal for SAS and PCI Express applications, including storage-to-controller, server-to-server, server-to-switch, switch-to-switch, and mobile/enterprise.

11 Mar 2016

Light Stimulates Switching Speed in Transistor Laser

Light and electrons interact in a complex dance within fiber optic devices. A new study by University of Illinois engineers found that in the transistor laser, a device for next-generation high-speed computing, the light and electrons spur one another on to faster switching speeds than any devices available.

11 Mar 2016

Larson Electronics Introduces WAL-SL-51-PAR38-LED-12.4 Temporary Tunnel String Light Set

Larson Electronics has announced the release of a temporary tunnel string light set that is designed for high output illumination and daisy chain connections across a total length of 510’ away from the power source.

10 Mar 2016

The Optical Society Announces 2016 Recipients of its Coveted Awards and Medals

The Optical Society (OSA) is pleased to name the 2016 recipients of its prestigious awards and medals.

10 Mar 2016

Molex Offers Transcend Network Connected LED Lighting System to Cisco Digital Ceiling

Molex, LLC confirms its participation in the Cisco® Digital Ceiling partner community, which debuted at Cisco Live! Berlin on February 17. Molex, developer of the Transcend® Network Connected LED Lighting System, announced a solutions technology collaboration with Cisco in November 2015. As a member of the Digital Ceiling partner community, Molex is involved in helping customers embrace digital transformation of their buildings by creating a Digital Ceiling.

10 Mar 2016

GEODIS’ Asset Recovery Center Reduces Power Consumption with Digital Lumens’ Intelligent LED Lighting System

Digital Lumens, the market leader in intelligent LED lighting systems, together with its German partner SchahlLED Lighting, today announced it has equipped international transportation and logistics service provider GEODIS with an intelligent LED lighting system. Deployed at GEODIS' Asset Recovery Center location in Nieder-Olm, the project has enabled GEODIS to decrease power consumption and reduce the cost of lighting by 70,000 EUR in the first year while improving employee safety and productivity with high quality lights and LightRules software platform for seamless system management and configuration.

10 Mar 2016

Laser Research Optics Introduces New Service to Refurbish Customer Supplied Amada Mounts

Laser Research Optics has introduced a service that completely refurbishes customer supplied Amada® laser mounts with new CO2 focusing lenses and returns them, ready to use, within a week.

10 Mar 2016

OFC 2016: Teledyne LeCroy, Anritsu, Coherent Solutions and Oclaro to Demonstrate Latest 400G Test Platform

Teledyne LeCroy, Anritsu Company, Coherent Solutions Ltd. and Oclaro, Inc. today announced a new joint effort to demonstrate the highest performance single-carrier 16QAM signal generation and analysis capabilities available at 56Gbaud. The demonstration of the partners' latest optical communications test equipment platform takes place at OFC 2016 in Anaheim, CA, USA in the Teledyne LeCroy booth #1115.

10 Mar 2016