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Accurate Color Measurement and Fast Flexible Spectral Light for Industrial Applications

Due to the sheer numbers involved, sorting and binning LEDs based on photometric and colorimetric specifications creates challenges in terms of accuracy and speed of measurement. Accurate results must be obtained and data transferred in the shortest time possible.

24 Oct 2014

Principles Behind Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter Technology

Narrowband or hyperspectral imaging is a valuable technique used in planetary science for characterizing surfaces and surrounding environments. For example, it can be used to spatially map molecular species of interest on the surface of a solid or icy body, or to sound to different depths in a giant planet atmosphere.

24 Oct 2014

Kyocera to Showcase New Automotive TFT Display Products at 2014 Vehicle Display Symposium

Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corporation, Display Division will introduce new TFT technology products at the 2014 Vehicle Display Symposium being held at the University of Michigan Dearborn, October 23-24.

24 Oct 2014

Heart of James Webb Space Telescope Emerges Unscathed from Extremely Frigid Temperature Test

After 116 days of being subjected to extremely frigid temperatures like that in space, the heart of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) and its sensitive instruments, emerged unscathed from the thermal vacuum chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

24 Oct 2014

Researchers Film Passage of Ultrashort Laser Pulse through the Air

Action-packed science-fiction movies often feature colourful laser bolts. But what would a real laser missile look like during flight, if we could only make it out? How would it illuminate its surroundings? The answers lie in a film made at the Laser Centre of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw.

24 Oct 2014

Ultra-Thin LCD Screen Can Hold 3D Images Without a Power Source

At first glance, the static, greyscale display created by a group of researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China might not catch the eye of a thoughtful consumer in a market saturated with flashy, colorful electronics.

24 Oct 2014

Intertek Commits Support for Innovations in LED Lighting Technology

Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety services to a wide range of industries around the world, is helping to put illumination into the spotlight.

24 Oct 2014

Olympus Introduces its next generation of digital cameras for microscopy

Introducing the 5 megapixel DP27 and 3 megapixel DP22, Olympus presents its next generation of digital cameras for microscopy. Individual needs are met with multi-mode functionality, delivering Full-HD live images of unprecedented quality directly to the monitor.

21 Oct 2014

Invest in Photonics sees Greater Funding Opportunities for Photonics Start-Ups with Corporate Ventures

Invest in Photonics® 2014, a two-day international business partnering convention focused exclusively on photonics VC investment, today announces that participation at the October 9 – 10 event for business ange...

21 Oct 2014

Researchers Succeed in Transferring Paradoxical Effect to Laser System

What started out as a mathematical oddity, has now become a new kind of laser technology. Two years ago, physicists at TU Wien predicted a paradoxical laser effect: Under certain conditions, a laser can be switched on not by supplying it with more energy, but by taking energy away from the laser. First experimental signatures of this effect were recently reported at TU Wien.

21 Oct 2014

New High-Speed Transatlantic Links for Faster Data Exchange Between US and Europe

The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Energy Sciences Network, or ESnet, is deploying four new high-speed transatlantic links, giving researchers at America's national laboratories and universities ultra-fast access to scientific data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and other research sites in Europe.

21 Oct 2014

Larson Electronics Introduces 84W Vapor Proof LED Luminaire for Outdoor Applications

Industrial lighting specialist Larson Electronics continues its commitment to providing high-grade lighting equipment to specialty markets with the release of a four foot vapor proof LED light fixture ideal for outdoor applications. This LED light fixture provides an alternative to fluorescent fixtures that provides longer lamp life and better performance.

21 Oct 2014

Forecast Report on Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing for the Oil and Gas Industry

Distributed fibre optic sensing (DFOS) represents an opportunity for the oil and gas industry to manage and optimise its resources more effectively going forward. Visiongain has forecast that expenditure on DFOS by the oil and gas industry worldwide will be $341.2m in 2014.

21 Oct 2014

Natcore Technology Creates All-Low-Temperature, Laser-Processed Solar Cell

Incorporating its proprietary advances in laser-processing technology, scientists at Natcore Technology have created an all-low-temperature, laser-processed solar cell. Their latest device does not require temperatures above 350 degrees C for any process step.

21 Oct 2014

Laser Physicists Demonstrate First Long-Distance Optical Tractor Beam

Laser physicists have built a tractor beam that can repel and attract objects, using a hollow laser beam that is bright around the edges and dark in its centre.

21 Oct 2014