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Amerlux Receives Product Innovation Award for LINEA and GRUV LED Linear Lighting Family

Honored as a complete family of architectural slim-line recessed and pendant mounted luminaires common in quality, efficiency and aperture size, the LINEA 1.5" pendant and the GRUV 1.5" recessed LED linear luminaire family from Amerlux® has received a Product Innovation Award from Architectural Products magazine, according to Amerlux President/CEO Chuck Campagna.

19 Nov 2014

Access Fixtures Introduces Wildlife Friendly LED Amber Garage Lighters

Access Fixtures is expanding its extensive product line to include LED amber garage lighters as part of its line-up of wildlife-friendly luminaires. Wildlife-friendly lighting minimizes light pollution in areas where excessive artificial lighting can harm ecosystems, especially coastal areas where sea turtles need a dark sky to migrate towards the ocean.

19 Nov 2014

Kateeva Debuts High-Performance Mass-Production Solution for Flexible OLEDs

Flexible consumer electronics products are closer to Main Street thanks to a new manufacturing tool from Kateeva. This week at the Printed Electronics USA conference in Santa Clara, Calif., the provider of technology-driven deposition equipment will introduce the YIELDjet™ FLEX, a high-performance mass-production solution for flexible Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs).

19 Nov 2014

Opto Diode’s New Quadrant Photodiode 5 mm² - SXUVPS4

Opto Diode, a division of ITW, introduces the SXUVPS4, a new multi-element detector with a 5 mm² active area in a quadrant configuration. Designed to resist radiation damage from high intensity UV lasers, the SXUVPS4 photodiodes are ideal for laser alignment applications. Offering unmatched stability, the SXUV series of photodiodes are the only commercially available detectors that can withstand 4 days of exposure to 10 eV 1016 photons/cm2 without degradation in responsivity.

From Opto Diode Corp. 18 Nov 2014

Non-Contact Industrial Beam Monitoring System from Ophir Photonics Enhances Camera and Optics for BeamWatch®

Ophir Photonics, global leader in precision laser measurement equipment and a Newport Corporation brand, today announced BeamWatch® 1.2, the next version of the industry's first non-contact, focus spot size and position monitor for very high power YAG and fiber lasers.

From Ophir Photonics Group 18 Nov 2014

New 5 Megapixel SC50 Microscope Camera from Olympus

Designed for the convenience of everyday use and ideal under low light conditions, the new 5 megapixel SC50 microscope camera from Olympus is built on the latest CMOS chip technology to deliver improved speed, sensitivity and resolution at a truly affordable price.

18 Nov 2014

Laser Spine Institute Opens New Facility in Cleveland

Laser Spine Institute, the leader in minimally invasive spine surgery, opened the doors today to its new facility in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. The Cleveland region contains more than one million people with neck and back pain, according to the National Institutes of Health, The Burden of Musculoskeletal Diseases in the United States. The new center will address this need by providing greater access to minimally invasive spine care procedures throughout the surrounding region.

18 Nov 2014

Mellanox to Demonstrate100Gb/s DAC and Active Optical Cables at Supercomputing 2014 Conference

Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced sample availability for 100Gb/s Direct Attach Copper (DAC) and Active Optical Cables (AOCs) for both EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand and 100 Gigabit Ethernet data center networks. Mellanox will demonstrate 100Gb/s DAC cables of 2, 4, 6 and 8 meter lengths and 100 and 200 meter Active Optical Cables at the Supercomputing 2014 Conference.

18 Nov 2014

Fluke Introduces Infrared Camera with HD Resolution

Fluke Corporation launches its highest resolution infrared camera ever: the Fluke® TiX Series Infrared Cameras. The TiX1000 (with 1024 x 768 resolution), TiX660, and TiX640 (both 640 x 480) feature up to ten times the on-camera pixels as are available on standard 320 x 240 cameras and a large 5.6-inch articulating display to help quickly identify issues while still in the field.

18 Nov 2014

Lighting Science Ranked Once Again on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500

Lighting Science Group Corporation today announced that it has ranked once again on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Award winners for 2014 are selected based on revenue growth from 2009 to 2013. Lighting Science grew 165% during this period.

18 Nov 2014

Key Technological Trends in the Global Military Electro Optical Infrared Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Global Military Electro Optical Infrared (EO/IR) Market 2014-2024 - Country Analysis: Market Profile" report to their offering.

18 Nov 2014

RetroSense Licenses Worldwide Rights to Massachusetts General Hospital’s Optogenetics Intellectual Property

RetroSense Therapeutics, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company, today announced the signing of a license agreement for exclusive, worldwide rights to Massachusetts General Hospital’s patent application entitled "Method for Augmenting Vision in Persons Suffering from Photoreceptor Cell Degeneration".

18 Nov 2014

Optex Systems Announce Acquisition of Applied Optics Center

Applied Optics Center (AOC), formerly a division of L-3 Communications’ Warrior Systems Sector, (Dallas, Texas) has been acquired by Optex Systems Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:OPXS).

17 Nov 2014

New Fluorescence Imaging Technique Accurately Identifies Receptors for Targeted Cancer Therapies

Dartmouth researchers have developed a fluorescence imaging technique that can more accurately identify receptors for targeted cancer therapies without a tissue biopsy. They report on their findings in "Quantitative in vivo immunohistochemistry of epidermal growth factor receptor using a receptor concentration imaging approach," which was recently published in Cancer Research.

17 Nov 2014

Smartphone Scans QR Codes to Display 3-D Images

Quick Response (QR) codes -- the box-shaped symbols that appear on signs, posters, and even business cards -- are a convenient and efficient way of accessing specific web pages with a smartphone or other mobile device. However, new research published today in The Optical Society's (OSA) new high-impact journal Optica, explains how QR codes can do much more.

17 Nov 2014