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Ball Aerospace Completes Thermal Vacuum Tests on Critical Components for DARPA MOIRE Telescope

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has completed thermal vacuum environmental tests on critical components for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Membrane Optic Imager Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) telescope. Two sections of the primary mirror composite back structure and the structure deployment hinges successfully underwent environmental tests to simulate the temperature range and vacuum of a space environment.

21 May 2014

Larson Electronics Launches the WAL-DL-WP60E-72-1227 Extendible Work Area Dock Light

Leading manufacturer and distributor of industrial lighting Larson Electronics announces the release of a 60 watt LED work area dock light with a 3.5’-6’ adjustable pivoting arm. This work area LED dock light provides 5,400 lumens of high quality light while drawing only 0.5 amps at 60 watts on a 120 volt AC power source.

21 May 2014

NEC Display Solutions Unveils Low-Cost Ultra-Narrow Bezel Display and Two Video Wall Bundles

NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, announced today the addition of a lower cost, ultra-narrow bezel display and two video wall bundles for all-in-one, easy-to-configure digital signage solutions.

21 May 2014

Larson Electronics Launches 6W Explosion Proof LED Light Fixture on Adjustable Scaffold Bracket

Leading manufacturer and distributor of industrial lighting Larson Electronics announces the release of a 6 watt explosion proof LED infrared light fixture mounted on an adjustable scaffold bracket.

21 May 2014

New Pulsed STED Laser from Leica to Debut at ELMI Meeting 2014

Leica Microsystems is introducing a new pulsed 775 nm STED laser with the super-resolution system Leica TCS SP8 STED 3X, which achieves sub 30 nm resolution through pulsed stimulated emission depletion technology.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 20 May 2014

Power Integrations Introduces LYTSwitch-2 Family of Isolated LED Drivers

Power Integrations, the leader in high-efficiency, high-reliability LED-driver ICs, today announced its LYTSwitch™-2 family of isolated LED drivers. The new IC family, which delivers up to 12 watts of accurately controlled output power, substantially reduces component count, resulting in simpler, smaller, more reliable LED lighting designs.

20 May 2014

Global Medical Fiber Optics Market to Grow at 7.6% CAGR During 2013-2019

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Medical Fiber Optics Market - Forecast to 2019: Major players are LEONI, TRUMPF, SCHOTT, ROFIN, Coherent, Vitalcor and Timbercon" report to their offering.

20 May 2014

China-based Telecom OEM Places Follow-on 100G Orders with Advanced Photonix

Picometrix®, LLC, an Advanced Photonix® company, announced today that it has received follow on orders from a leading China provider of telecommunications equipment and networks solutions to supply the CR-100D for their 100G optical transport network equipment. These orders total approximately $700K to be delivered over the next three months.

20 May 2014

New Quadpod Mounted Work Area Flood Light from Larson Electronics

Larson Electronics has added to its extensive range of industrial grade lighting equipment with the release of a 2000 watt quadpod mounted work light.

20 May 2014

ViewSonic Announces Availability of 84-inch, Six-point Simultaneous Touch, Interactive Large-format Display

ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solution products, announces the availability of the CDE8451-TL, an 84-inch, six-point simultaneous touch, interactive large-format display with 4K Ultra-HD resolution.

20 May 2014

Avago Technologies Announces New Line of 14.2mm Optocoupler Devices

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for wireless, wireline, and industrial applications, today announced a new family of 14.2mm optocoupler devices, the ACNT-Hxxx, designed for high voltage applications.

20 May 2014

Ball Aerospace to Build High-Spectral-Resolution-Lidar for Aerosols Winds and Clouds

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has received a contract from NASA to build a High-spectral-Resolution-Lidar for Aerosols Winds and Clouds - Using the Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar (HAWC-OAWL) to help scientists better understand how the wind transport of aerosols and water vapor affect air quality and cloud formation.

From BAE Systems 20 May 2014

New Optical Approach to Brain Scanning

Scientists have advanced a brain-scanning technology that tracks what the brain is doing by shining dozens of tiny LED lights on the head.

20 May 2014

Forecast Report on Global Market for Industrial and Commercial LED Lighting

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Industrial And Commercial LED Lighting Market - Forecast to 2019: Dominated by few organized players namely Philips, Osram, Cree, Cooper and GE" report to their offering.

20 May 2014

Imaging Tests Conducted by STEMMER IMAGING for First Phase of Bloodhound Rocket Plume

Monitoring the output of the rocket plume is expected to play an important role in the optimisation of the rocket and jet engine-powered Bloodhound vehicle as it is developed for its world land speed record attempt. Initial expectations that UV imaging would prove more useful than IR imaging were confirmed during the tests.

From STEMMER IMAGING AG 19 May 2014