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Optics and Photonics Leaders Propose International Year of Light to the UN and UNESCO

Optics and photonics leaders from around the world including President-Elect Philip Stahl of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, last month presented the widely supported "International Year of Light" (IYOL) proposal to representatives from United Nations (UN) Member States and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at the UN Headquarters in New York.

6 Jun 2013

Climate Researchers Investigate Interactions of Laser Light and Ice Clouds

Intense laser light pulses increase the brightness of high cirrus clouds. Together with colleagues from Berlin and Geneva, climate researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have been investigating the interactions of laser light and ice clouds using the unique AIDA aerosol and cloud chamber on KIT’s Campus North.

6 Jun 2013

Fundamentals of Femtosecond Optics - New Book Released by Woodhead Publishing

Femtosecond optics involves the study of ultra-short pulses of light. Understanding the behaviour of these light pulses makes it possible to develop ultra-fast lasers with a wide range of applications in such areas as medical imaging, chemical analysis and micro-machining.

5 Jun 2013

Cheap, Robust Semiconductor Lasers Produce High-Energy Light Pulses Without Drawbacks

Laser researchers in Munich are challenging a basic assumption of engineering: "You can't have it all." They have shown that for certain kinds of laser applications in biomedical imaging, material processing, and communications, a new approach could deliver the desired capabilities with no problematic tradeoffs: in compact, inexpensive, efficient and long-lived devices that produce ultrashort, high-energy light pulses.

5 Jun 2013

Inexpensive Ground-Based Telescopes Aid Discovery of Hot Saturn-Like Planet

A four-university collaboration that includes Lehigh University astrophysicist Joshua Pepper has discovered a hot Saturn-like planet in another solar system 700 light years away.

5 Jun 2013

Low Irradiance LED UV Light Extends Shelf Life of Strawberries

Strawberry lovers rejoice: the days of unpacking your luscious berries from the refrigerator only to find them sprouting wispy goatees of mold may be numbered.

From Optical Society Of America 5 Jun 2013

Innovative Video Mapping System from Projection Advertising

Projection Advertising, the UK’s leading projection specialist, has announced its groundbreaking new MIMO Mapper system. MIMO, an acronym for ‘model in, movie out’, is a new approach to video mapping offering endless possibilities on even the most demanding of surfaces. Using the same principles as UV mapping, it incorporates additional capabilities making it one of the most advanced video-mapping systems in the world.

5 Jun 2013

Ventuz Enters Partnership to Create Interactive Display Solutions on MultiTouch’s MultiTaction Platform

MultiTouch Ltd, the world leader in modular multi-touch LCD screens for large-scale displays, has announced a partnership with Ventuz Technology to create interactive display solutions on MultiTouch’s MultiTaction platform.

5 Jun 2013

NASA's Swift Satellite Used to Create Detailed UV Light Surveys of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds

Astronomers at NASA and Pennsylvania State University have used NASA's Swift satellite to create the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two closest major galaxies.

4 Jun 2013

Northrop Grumman and University of New Mexico Sponsor Adaptive Optics Project

Northrop Grumman recently partnered with the University of New Mexico to sponsor an electrical and computer engineering senior design project. The project, titled Adaptive Optics , had students model and write matrix laboratory code to perform adaptive optics correction, starting with the generation of a distorted wavefront and culminating with a corrected, undistorted image.

4 Jun 2013

Two New DFB Laser Modules for Analog Wireless and DAS Applications from EMCORE

EMCORE Corporation, a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber optics and solar power markets, announced today that it has introduced two new Distributed Feedback (DFB) laser modules designed for analog wireless and Distributed Antenna System (DAS) applications.

From Emcore Corporation 4 Jun 2013

Canon Opens State-of-the-Art Healthcare Optics Research Laboratory in Cambridge

Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, is proud to announce a new location for the Healthcare Optics Research Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

From Canon U.S.A., Inc. 4 Jun 2013

Novel 1.73" Flexible Electronic Paper Display Technology for Smartwatch Applications

E Ink® Holdings, "E Ink" (8069.TW), a digital signage and display visionary, announces the addition of a 1.73" flexible display to its Mobius product line of flexible electronic paper display (EPD) technology. The 1.73" display has been specifically engineered for smartwatch and watch applications.

4 Jun 2013

Fairchild Integrates MOSFET and Diode into 100 V BoostPak Device for LED Applications

Fairchild Semiconductor, a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile semiconductor solutions, optimizes the MOSFET and diode selection process by introducing a family of 100 V BoostPak devices that combines a MOSFET and diode in one package to replace discrete solutions currently used in LED TV / monitor backlight, LED lighting and DC-DC converter applications.

From Onsemi 4 Jun 2013

Proxima Centauri's Trajectory Offers Hubble Interesting Opportunity to Hunt for Planets

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.

4 Jun 2013