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InfoComm 2014: -Samsung Received Three Awards for Leadership in Commercial Display Technology

Samsung Electronics America today announced that it received three awards at InfoComm 2014, an annual event for the professional audiovisual and information communication industries, held June 18-20 in Las Vegas.

23 Jun 2014

Musco to Deliver Cutting-Edge LED Lighting Solution for LakePoint’s Multi-Field Sports Complex

LakePoint Sporting Community, the world’s largest sports vacation destination, has partnered with the leading innovator of sports lighting solutions, Musco Lighting, to provide a LED lighting system for enhanced playability and energy efficiency. LakePoint is the first multi-field sports complex to use Musco’s cutting-edge lighting solution harnessing LED technology to direct more light onto the playing surface.

23 Jun 2014

Fiberguide Industries will Exhibit its New Square Core for Fiber Arrays for Star Mapping at SPIE

Fiberguide Industries will exhibit its new Square Core for fiber arrays for star mapping applications, along with specialty optical fibers and high power assemblies at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2014, booth 201. The show takes place June 25-26, 2014 at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal (Montreal, Quebec, Canada).

23 Jun 2014

American Laser Skincare Offers Advanced Skin Rejuvenation Technologies at Clinics in Miami and West Palm Beach Areas

American Laser Skincare announced today that it is introducing a full assortment of Envy Medical products and treatments to its Miami and West Palm Beach, Fla., area clinics. The additions to the portfolio include the SilkPeel® Dermalinfusion® System, Lumixyl® Brightening System, and ClarityMD™ Acne Solution. These products and treatments are being rolled out immediately in Miami and West Palm Beach, and are anticipated to be available in every American Laser Skincare clinic by September 2014.

23 Jun 2014

New Research Report on Optic Cables Market in Russia and the CIS

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Fiber-optic Cable in the CIS: Production, Market and Forecast (2nd edition)" report to their offering.

23 Jun 2014

CABLExpress Reduces Diameter, Weight of Skinny-Trunk Fiber Optic Trunk Cables

CABLExpress announced today at NY Tech Summit that it has reduced the diameter and weight of its Skinny-Trunk® fiber optic trunk cables to allow for increased capacity and ease of cable management in data center infrastructure systems.

23 Jun 2014

Dual-Mode Imager Combines Near-Infrared Fluorescent and Visible Light Reflectance Imaging for Better Tumor Identification

Before they excise a tumor, surgeons need to determine exactly where the cancerous cells lie. Now, research published today in The Optical Society's (OSA) journal Optics Letters details a new technique that could give surgeons cheaper and more lightweight tools, such as goggles or hand-held devices, to identify tumors in real time in the operating room.

From Optical Society Of America 20 Jun 2014

Hubbell Lighting Offers High Output Versions of LUNABAY LED High Bay

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced today that Hubbell Industrial Lighting’s modernly styled LUNABAY™ LED High Bay is now available in high output versions. While still providing excellent efficacy of up to 95 lumens per watt, the LUNABAY™ can now deliver up to 23,650 lumens.

20 Jun 2014

Spitzer Space Telescope Measures Candidate Size for NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have measured the size of an asteroid candidate for NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a proposed spacecraft concept to capture either a small asteroid, or a boulder from an asteroid. The near-Earth asteroid, called 2011 MD, was found to be roughly 20 feet (6 meters) in size, and its structure appears to contain a lot of empty space, perhaps resembling a pile of rubble. Spitzer's infrared vision was key to sizing up the asteroid.

20 Jun 2014

LLNL Selects Ball Aerospace to Build L1-L2 Lens Assembly for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Camera

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to build the optics and support structure, designated as the L1-L2 Lens Assembly, for the camera on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will sit atop the 8,800 ft. tall Cerro Pachon mountaintop in Chile.

From BAE Systems 20 Jun 2014

New Report on Global Market Growth Potential of Adaptive Optics Systems

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Adaptive Optics: Technologies and Global Markets

20 Jun 2014

InfoComm 2014: Panasonic Showcases New LED Professional Displays

Panasonic System Communications Company of North America, a leader in delivering professional display and digital signage solutions, today announced several new additions to its industry-leading line of professional displays, including the TH-55LFV70 LED Video Wall Display, the TH-47LFX6N Outdoor LED display and an expanded LFE7 LED backlit Display Series.

20 Jun 2014

Light-Guiding Systems Laser-Written onto Smartphone’s Display Glass

Your smartphone’s display glass could soon be more than just a pretty face, thanks to new technology developed by researchers from Montreal and the New York-based company Corning Incorporated. The team has created the first laser-written light-guiding systems that are efficient enough to be developed for commercial use. They describe their work in a paper published today in The Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal, Optics Express.

From Optical Society Of America 20 Jun 2014

LumaStream Wins 2014 Product of the Year Award for Lighting

"Commercial Integrator" today announced that LumaStream has won the 2014 Product of the Year award for lighting. The award recognizes the most noteworthy and innovative solutions for the commercial integration business and is selected by a panel of industry experts, integrators, and subject editors.

20 Jun 2014

VITA Technologies Recognizes Zephyr's ZMACS 20 Active Optical Cable for Primetime Choices' Product Award

Zephyr Photonics, Inc.'s ZMACS 20 ruggedized, active optical cable (AOC) was chosen for Primetime Choices' Product Award for VITA Technologies Magazine. Optical connections are gaining ground in critical embedded applications.

20 Jun 2014