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Cree’s New LED Street Luminaire Provides Better Light at Warm Color Temperatures

Cree, Inc. introduces the Cree RSW™ LED Street Luminaire, the first of a new generation of streetlights that deliver LED energy savings and reliability in a warm color temperature that is preferred in many residential applications.

From WOLFSPEED, INC. 4 Mar 2016

SPIN-R’s Unique LED Lamp Features Custom Mood Lighting and 3D Animated Emojis

SPIN-R introduces Tittle Light (#TittleLight), a unique LED lamp that instantly transforms any home environment by titillating users’ senses with a variety of beautiful and custom mood lighting and 3D animated emojis.

4 Mar 2016

Ocean Optics’ Enhanced NIRQuest Series Features Replaceable Slit Design and Internal Shutter Option

Ocean Optics has enhanced the NIRQuest series of small-footprint near-infrared spectrometers. All NIRQuest spectrometer models now come with a replaceable slit design as standard, increasing measurement flexibility with easy user changes in the field. Additionally, the option of adding an internal shutter is now available to more effectively manage light throughput and dark measurements in experiment setups.

4 Mar 2016

Polatis Launches New Series of Fully Non-Blocking All-Optical Matrix Switch

Polatis, the performance leader in fiber layer switching solutions, has brought to market the industry's highest port count all-optical cross connect. The new Polatis Series 7000 Optical Circuit Switch (OCS) is a fully non-blocking all-optical matrix switch with up to 384x384 fiber ports and is available immediately. Occupying just 4RU of rack height, the Series 7000 packs 20% more capacity into 40% less space than alternative solutions, while maintaining the superior performance and reliability attributes enabled by Polatis' proven DirectLight™ optical switch technology.

4 Mar 2016

Windstream Announces 100G Network Expansion into McAllen Data Center

Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network communications, announced today its network expansion into McAllen Data Center in McAllen, Tex. Windstream will deploy diverse 100G-capable Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) routes, providing direct, low-latency transport from the McAllen Data Center to San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, and many other high-density data centers within our footprint.

4 Mar 2016

Fiber Optic Center Announces Fiber Blowing Solutions

Fiber Optic Center, Inc., (FOC), an international leader in distributing fiber optic components, equipment and supplies and recognized as one of the most technically savvy fiber optics companies in the world, announces a new line of Fiber Blowing Solutions to address challenges in existing infrastructure and in the ground.

From Fiber Optic Center, Inc. 3 Mar 2016

ADVA Optical Networking to Develop Next Generation Mobile Networks and Services

ADVA Optical Networking today announced its involvement in the 5G-XHaul project. The company's engineers and equipment are playing a central role in the EU-funded initiative to develop the next generation of mobile networks and services.

3 Mar 2016

Soraa Adds Lower and Higher Wattage 120V MR16 GU10 LED Lamps to its Product Portfolio

Soraa, the world leader in GaN on GaN™ LED technology, today announced it has added lower and higher wattage 120V MR16 GU10 LED lamps to its product portfolio. The 5W lamps are perfect replacements for 35W equivalent halogen lamps, and the 9W LED lamps replace 65-75W halogen lamps. These two new lines join the company’s existing line of 7.5W lamps (50W halogen equivalent). Soraa’s VIVID GU10 LED lamps produce unmatched peak intensity at a 25° beam angle; provide flawless beam definition and smooth beam edges; and have exceptional color (CRI of 95 and R9 of 95) and whiteness rendering.

3 Mar 2016

New Computational Physics Research Could Lead to New Devices for Use in Fiber-Optic Communications

New computational physics research at the University of Arkansas shows that applying electrical fields and changing temperature could lead to new devices for use in fiber-optic communications.

3 Mar 2016

OIF to Showcase Pluggable Coherent Optics and 56G Electrical Interfaces

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) today released the slate of public demonstrations that it will conduct at OFC in Anaheim, March 22-24, 2016. The demo will showcase multi-vendor interoperability of two key technologies; Pluggable Coherent Optics and 56G Electrical Interfaces. These technologies will cover a range of channel reaches from Very Short Reach (VSR) to Long Reach (LR) and includes using both NRZ and PAM4 modulation formats.

3 Mar 2016

Lumileds to Roll Out Multiple New LED Products in Mid Power March

Lumileds today kicks off Mid Power March, a month-long event to introduce a variety of mid power products that feature breakthrough performance and unmatched product reliability.

3 Mar 2016

PI-SCALE Project to Create Open Access European Flexible OLED Pilot Line

Europe’s technology leaders in the development of flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for lighting and signage applications have joined together in a consortium to develop an open access pilot line that will accelerate the commercial adoption of this promising new technology.

3 Mar 2016

NanoPoint-0201: World's Smallest LED from SunLED

As new product designs become smaller and more compact, the need for smaller components has become more prevalent. We have seen the optoelectronics industry go from a 1206 sized LED down to an 0402 size where footprint reduction technology has come to a halt for the past many years. SunLED is excited to make this remarkably unprecedented, groundbreaking announcement of the world's smallest LED - the 0201 LED.

3 Mar 2016

Dialog Semiconductor Announces New Driver Controllers for High-Power Commercial LED Lighting Applications

Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC power conversion, solid state lighting (SSL) and Bluetooth(R) Smart technology, today announced two new driver controllers for high power commercial LED lighting applications up to 90W.

2 Mar 2016

Larson Electronics’ New Mini LED Light Tower Features Four 400W LED Lamp Heads

Larson Electronics announced the release of a mini LED light tower featuring four 400 watt LED lamp heads, a 3,000 KVA generator, and an adjustable tower built on a wheeled frame for portability.

2 Mar 2016