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Diodes Introduces BCR420U and BCR421U Constant-Current Regulators for Driving Low-Power Linear LED Strips

Diodes Incorporated, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets, today introduced the BCR420U and BCR421U. These constant-current regulators (CCR) provide a simple means of driving low-power linear LED strips.

10 Dec 2015

Synopsys Releases RSoft Photonic System Design Suite Version 2015.12

Synopsys, Inc. today announced the latest releases of the RSoft™ product portfolio, the company's industry-leading family of software tools for photonic component and optical communication system design. Version 2015.12 of the Synopsys RSoft Photonic System Design Suite includes new features to accelerate the design and fabrication of state-of-the-art silicon photonics, photonic integrated circuits and optical transceivers in data center applications.

10 Dec 2015

BIOS 2016: Argolight and Imagine Optic to Unveil New Faster Performance Photonics Products

The Route des Lasers, a competitiveness cluster exclusively for photonics companies, today announces that cluster members Argolight and Imagine Optic will unveil new faster performance photonics products at the Route des Lasers booth #8847 during BIOS, February 13 – 14, 2016 in San Francisco.

10 Dec 2015

New High Energy XUV Spectrometer from McPherson

McPherson's grazing incidence wavelength dispersive optical spectrometer allows rapid analysis of spectral light in the ~1 to 300nm wavelength region (4 to 1200 eV.) Beside high-harmonic laser generation experiments, the Model 248/310 is also useful for measuring ion- or discharge light sources and astrophysics detector calibration. At FLASH, the Free Electron Laser experiment at DESY Germany, the McPherson 248/310 UHV model assisted in analysis of the 2.3 to 4.4-nanometer water window (a region transparent to light).

9 Dec 2015

UCLA Professor Honored with International Commission for Optics Prize

Aydogan Ozcan, Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received the International Commission for Optics (ICO) Prize. Ozcan was recognized for his seminal contributions to biophotonics technologies impacting computational microscopy, and digital holography for telemedicine and global health applications.

9 Dec 2015

EPFL Spin-Off Launches Microscope for Observing Living Cells in 3D

EPFL spin-off Nanolive has launched the 3D Cell Explorer, a microscope for observing living cells in 3D. This new tool could be a real boon for researchers in such areas as infertility.

9 Dec 2015

Study of Curious 'Quasiparticles' Helps Measure Incredibly Small Distortions in Light Waves

Optics researchers have discovered a new way to measure incredibly small distortions in light waves by indirectly studying the behavior of curious 'quasiparticles' - ripples in the electric field that emerge when light and solid surfaces interact. This new technique holds significant promise for applications in metrology and chemical sensing, as well as potential improvements in adaptive optics for microscopy and biomedicine.

From Optical Society Of America 9 Dec 2015

SLAC's X-Ray Laser Helps Study Very Delicate Biological Samples

Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have found a simple new way to study very delicate biological samples – like proteins at work in photosynthesis and components of protein-making machines called ribosomes – at the atomic scale using SLAC's X-ray laser.

9 Dec 2015

Highly Sensitive, Inexpensive, Non-Invasive Biophotonics Method to Identify Unstable Plaques

In aging societies, atherosclerosis (AS) and its major vascular complications, myocardial infarction and stroke, are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Besides that, childhood obesity is an increasing phenomenon all over the globe and will lead to increased occurrence of cardiovascular diseases at younger age. Particularly in these patients all efforts need to be made towards non-invasive methods for disease diagnosis in order to reduce the risk of invasive analysis and X-ray radiation.

9 Dec 2015

High Precision Grisms for Euclid Mission to Map the Dark Universe

Optical Surfaces Ltd. has supplied the Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) with polished substrates to manufacture the high precision grisms that lie at the heart of a Near Infrared Spectrophotometer designed to perform red shift measurements in the forthcoming Euclid space mission by the European Space Agency (ESA).

From Optica Software 8 Dec 2015