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Easy to Set Up LED Pneumatic Light Tower from Larson Electronics

Larson Electronics has released a powerful and easy to deploy light tower designed to provide high output illumination that can be easily set up and operated anywhere powerful area lighting is needed. The PLM-18-3X150W-LED Pneumatic Light Tower is built to demanding industrial grade standards and provides operators with the ability to produce over 44,000 lumens of intense light output without the labor intensive setup often associated with manually operated light towers.

16 Mar 2013

PSAV Unveils Innovative Interactive Video Wall

PSAV® Presentation Services is now offering a new communication platform for meeting professionals that uses next-generation interactive digital signage to deliver information and entertainment to event attendees.

16 Mar 2013

New Report on Uses and Current Technology of Mobile LIDAR

Imagine driving down a road a few times and obtaining in an hour more data about the surrounding landscape than a crew of surveyors could obtain in months.

16 Mar 2013

SOHO Captures Images of Sun’s Earth-Directed Coronal Mass Ejection

On March 15, 2013, at 2:54 a.m. EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space and can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground.

16 Mar 2013

Engineers at Stanford Design High-Resolution, Micro-Endoscope

Engineers at Stanford have demonstrated a high-resolution endoscope that is as thin as a human hair with a resolution four times better than previous devices of similar design.

15 Mar 2013

Imec’s New Silicon Photonics Platform Provides Cost-Efficient Solutions to Integrated Photonics Products

Imec announced today the launch of its fully integrated silicon photonics platform through a cost-sharing Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) service via ePIXfab. The platform enables cost-effective R&D of silicon photonic ICs for high-performance optical transceivers (25Gb/s and beyond) and optical sensing and life science applications.

From imec Inc. 15 Mar 2013

UB Engineers Create Rainbow-Colored Polymer Using Holographic Lithography Method

An easy-to-make rainbow filter that could help users identify the true color of everything from paint to medicine has been named to the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ (SME) list of 2013 Innovations that Could Change the Way You Manufacture.

15 Mar 2013

Intensive Workshop on LED and OLED Lighting Applications

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will hold a four-day, hands-on seminar May 14-17, 2013, to teach industry professionals how to incorporate light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) into lighting applications.

15 Mar 2013

Scientists Use X-ray Laser to Observe Actions of Catalysts at Molecular Level

An international team under the leadership of Hamburg scientists has observed a catalyst in action on the molecular level with the world's strongest X-ray laser. The study shows surprising details of a chemical reaction and opens up the possibility to see live pictures of these ultrafast processes.

15 Mar 2013

PG&O to Highlight Thin Film Optical Solutions at SPIE DSS

Precision Glass & Optics (PG&O), global experts in optical manufacturing and precision thin film coatings, offers complete turnkey optical solutions for military and defense applications.

15 Mar 2013

Innovative Software Improves Quality and Field of View of Ultrasound Images

Innovative software has been developed that greatly enhances the detail quality and field of view of conventional ultrasound images. It could improve the diagnosis of heart disease and deliver big savings for the NHS.

14 Mar 2013

Oclaro Highlights 100G Networking Leadership at OFC/NFOEC Show

Oclaro, Inc., a tier-one provider and innovator of optical communications and laser solutions, today announced that it will be highlighting its 100G networking leadership at the upcoming OFC/NFOEC show with a live demonstration of its LR4 CFP2 at Oclaro booth #2701, several new product introductions, and participation in six panel discussions and various technical paper presentations.

14 Mar 2013

Aleddra Announces Availability of Star Highbay LED Luminaire for North American Market

Aleddra LED Lighting, a business unit of Lightel Technologies, Inc., today announces its high-performance Star Highbay LED luminaire is available in the North American market as an energy-efficient solution for high bay lighting application.

14 Mar 2013

Avago Technologies Unveils New 100G CFP2 Optical Transceiver

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for wireless, wireline, and industrial applications, today announced a new 100G CFP2 optical transceiver, the AFBR-8420Z. The device is a 10-channel pluggable, multi-mode parallel optic transceiver module designed for high-density 100G Ethernet and Optical Transport Network (OTN).

14 Mar 2013

P&P Optica to Participate in Canadian Technology Accelerator Program

P&P Optica Inc., a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of high-performance optical spectrometers, has been selected as one of eight Canadian companies to participate in the Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) program in Boston.

14 Mar 2013