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Orion Awarded LED Troffer Retrofit Lighting Contract Award from Virginia Veterans Affairs Hospital

Orion Energy Systems, Inc., April 30, 2015 - a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance, energy-efficient lighting platforms, today announced that it recently received a contract award of approximately $700,000 from a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital in Virginia. Orion is upgrading the location’s fluorescent fixtures with its patented LED Troffer Retrofit (LDR) product, in addition to installing the Company’s flagship exterior product, the ISON LED area light.

4 May 2015

University of Southampton Joins Two-Year Photonics4All Outreach Project

The University of Southampton is marking the 2015 International Year of Light, by taking part in a new project to help people and businesses throughout Europe understand the importance of photonics, the science of light.

4 May 2015

Intertek and Samsung Launch Joint Certification Support Program at LIGHTFAIR International Trade Show

Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety services to industries worldwide, has partnered with globally specialized LED company Samsung Electronics to launch the joint Certification Support Program at the LIGHTFAIR International trade show and conference May 2015 in New York City.

30 Apr 2015

CommScope to Release Ruggedized Optical Line Terminal Solution for EPON

Cable operators continue to evolve their networks to converged optical platforms that can deliver high bandwidth to subscribers, meeting their demands for fast speeds and content-rich media. To help operators deploy a more reliable optical network, CommScope is releasing a ruggedized optical line terminal (OLT) solution for an Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON), which it will showcase at next week’s Internet and Television Expo (INTX) in Chicago.

30 Apr 2015

Trimble and Microsoft Partner to Provide HoloLens Wearable Holographic Technology for AEC Professionals

Trimble announced today that it is working with Microsoft to develop a new generation of tools, integrated with the HoloLens holographic platform on Windows 10, which are intended to improve quality, collaboration and efficiency in the design, construction and operation of buildings and structures. A proof of concept was demonstrated at Microsoft's Build Developer Conference held this week in San Francisco.

30 Apr 2015

Soraa to Display New Wireless LED Lamp at LIGHTFAIR International

Soraa, the world leader in GaN on GaNTM LED technology, announced it will be incorporating the option of wireless control into its award-winning product line, starting with the company’s PAR30L (long neck) LED lamp. The new wireless lamp will be displayed in Soraa’s booth (#757) at LIGHTFAIR International, May 5-7 at the Javits Center in New York City.

30 Apr 2015

High-Speed STAMP Camera Can Record Events at 1 Trillion Frames per Second

When a crystal lattice is excited by a laser pulse, waves of jostling atoms can travel through the material at close to one sixth the speed of light, or approximately 28,000 miles/second. Scientists now have a new tool to take movies of such superfast movement in a single shot.

30 Apr 2015

RS Components Offers Fuel3D’s SCANIFY Handheld Scanner

RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE: ECM), the global distributor for engineers, has added the CES award-winning SCANIFY® handheld scanner from Fuel3D to its range of affordable desktop systems for 3D digitisation and printing.

30 Apr 2015

Vertical Designs to Build LED Lighting System for Vertical Farming

Vertical Designs Ltd. a privately owned company that designs, builds and patents innovative, fully sustainable and complete vertical growing solutions, announced today plans to build an exclusive LED lighting system for global use in vertical farming and other indoor agricultural growing systems.

29 Apr 2015

Novel Ultrafast Camera Captures Images in 2D

An NIBIB grantee has developed an ultrafast camera that can acquire two-dimensional images at 100 billion frames per second, a speed capable of revealing light pulses and other phenomena previously too fast to be observed.

29 Apr 2015

Fiber Mountain Introduces AP-4240 Optical Path Exchange

Fiber Mountain, Inc., the Glass Core Company and provider of transformative software defined networking (SDN) solutions for enterprise and hyperscale data centers, today announced its AP-4240 Optical Path Exchange (OPX).

29 Apr 2015

Optical Method Uses Laser Beams to Remotely Measure Free-Field Sound Pressure

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - the UK's National Measurement Institute - have developed an optical method for remotely measuring sound pressure inside a fully anechoic chamber which is the first to provide direct traceability to the SI base units.

29 Apr 2015

NJIT Telescope Captures High-Resolution Images of Flaring Solar Flux Ropes

Scientists at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) have captured the first high-resolution images of the flaring magnetic structures known as solar flux ropes at their point of origin in the Sun's chromosphere. Their research, published today in Nature Communications, provides new insights into the massive eruptions on the Sun's surface responsible for space weather.

29 Apr 2015

Simple Method Improves Resolution of Conventional Wide-Field Optical Microscopes

Researchers at the UT-research institute MESA+ have developed a method to improve the resolution of a conventional wide-field optical microscope. Scattered light usually reduces the resolution of conventional optical microscopes.

29 Apr 2015

Hubbell Lighting Launches Kim Lighting's Customizable Light Distribution Outdoor LED Luminaires

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, launched today the first fully customizable light distribution outdoor LED luminaires—Kim Lighting’s breakthrough ArcheType X™ series. Available in a flood, wall or site/area luminaires, the ArcheType X™ has independently adjustable LED emitters—providing limitless lighting distributions and possibilities from one product family.

28 Apr 2015