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ON Semiconductor Introduces Next Generation Optical Image Stabilization/ Auto Focus (AF) Driver

ON Semiconductor, driving energy efficiency innovations, introduces its next generation Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) / Auto Focus (AF) driver, the LC898123AXD, to its portfolio, offering a premier digital still camera and video experience for smart phones, tablets, notebooks and wearables, by using advanced auto-focus and optical image stabilization technologies to overcome the performance limitations of traditional camera modules.

23 Feb 2016

Larson Electronics Introduces Vapor Proof LED Handheld Trouble Light for Food Handling Applications

Larson Electronics has announced the release of a 25 watt LED handheld trouble light that is vapor proof, food safe, and approved for damp locations.

23 Feb 2016

Ultra Stable Microscope Platforms for Electrophysiology & Neuroscience

Prior Scientific’s Z-Deck rangeis a high quality, height adjustable platform designed specifically for upright microscopes widely used in electrophysiology and neuroscience, including the Nikon FN1/Ni, the Olympus BX51WI / BX61WI, and the Zeiss Axio Examiner microscopes.

From Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd. 22 Feb 2016

ZTE’s Spro Plus Portable Smart Projector Provides Unlimited Entertainment and Business Opportunities

ZTE Mobile Devices today unveiled the Spro Plus portable smart projector, following the acclaimed Spro 2. Spro Plus is a new category of the Spro family, and ZTE aims to provide a high level of entertainment and business opportunities for users. Spro Plus helps business associates and friends meet anywhere at any time, with its leading voice conference, projection, touch-screen and innovative visual design features. The external USB camera also allows for multi-party video communication via applications like Skype.

22 Feb 2016

Lux Review Adds OPPLE Lighting to Global Hotlist of Lighting Companies 2015

Lux Review, an independent media covering energy-efficient lighting, recently unveiled Lux Review’s Global Hotlist of Lighting Companies 2015. As one of the biggest lighting companies in China, OPPLE Lighting entered the hotlist for its remarkable achievements in the global lighting market.

22 Feb 2016

Sigma Announces Two New Global Vision Lens Bundles

Sigma Corporation of America, a leading DSLR lens, camera, flash and accessory manufacturer, today announced two new Global Vision Lens bundles: the 150-600mm F5-6.3 Sports Lens and TC-1401 1.4X Teleconverter bundle and the 150-600mm F5-6.3 Telephoto Contemporary Lens and TC-1401 1.4X Teleconverter bundle. Expanding the focal range from 150-600mm to 210-840mm F6.3-9, the new bundles offer Canon, Nikon and Sigma camera users more choices, configurations and shooting options when investing in Sigma.

22 Feb 2016

Accessbolaget to Provide High-Speed Connectivity to More Locations in Sweden Using ADVA FSP 150

ADVA Optical Networking announced today that Accessbolaget, Sweden's newest telecommunications service provider, is leveraging its technology to deliver wholesale Carrier Ethernet services to customers across the country. The newly established Ethernet provider is utilizing the ADVA FSP 150, together with an existing national backbone built on the ADVA FSP 3000, to provide high-speed connectivity to more locations in Sweden than ever before.

22 Feb 2016

LSI Industries to Provide LED Lighting for Phillips 66 Program

LSI Industries Inc. today announced that it has been selected as the provider of LED lighting for a Phillips 66 program available to branded customers to encourage installation of canopy, site, and interior LED lighting. The program is designed to help sites elevate the consumer experience by providing a brighter, safer image, while also significantly reducing electrical and maintenance spend for many years into the future.

22 Feb 2016

Silver Spring Networks’ LED Lighting Solution to Interoperate with Philips Advance Xitanium SR Driver

Today, Silver Spring Networks, Inc., a networking leader for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced that it is developing a networked LED street lighting solution that will interoperate with the Philips Advance Xitanium SR driver for outdoor lighting, developed by Philips Lighting, a Royal Philips company and global leader in lighting.

22 Feb 2016

Excelitas Technologies Introduces High-Repetition Rate LINOS Double BBO Pockels Cells for Fast Q-switching Lasers

Two Crystals in Optical Series Enable the Fastest Possible Switching Rates Available Today!

From Qioptiq Photonics GmbH & Co. KG 19 Feb 2016

Precision Optics Manufactured by ZYGO Enable Scientists to Confirm Detection of Gravitational Waves

Zygo Corporation congratulates the LIGO Scientific Collaboration for its successful detection of gravitational waves and thereby confirming one of the major predictions of Albert Einstein's 1915 General Theory of Relativity.

From Zygo Corporation 19 Feb 2016

ZTE Researchers Set New Capacity Record for Optical Fiber Link

The amount of data traffic on the internet and between servers in datacenters has exploded in the past few decades and shows no signs of slowing down.

19 Feb 2016

Musco’s LED Lighting System to be Installed in Houston Astros

When Major League Baseball’s Houston Astros take the field on April 11 against the Kansas City Royals at Minute Maid Park, it will be under Musco’s cutting-edge SportsCluster Green™ LED system. As part of continued upgrades to Minute Maid Park, the new lighting system will provide unprecedented levels of energy efficiency and enhance the spectator experience at the ballpark.

19 Feb 2016

OIF Approves Implementation Agreement on Pluggable Coherent Optics Modules for Industry Applications

The membership of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has approved an Implementation Agreement (IA) on pluggable coherent optics modules for industry use.

19 Feb 2016

Avid’s Newest US Office Installs Cree LED Lighting with SmartCast Technology

Avid Solutions, an international automation, industrial IT and smart manufacturing engineering firm, selected Cree (Nasdaq: CREE) LED lighting with SmartCast® Technology to deliver intelligent light for its newest U.S. office in Winston-Salem, N.C.

19 Feb 2016