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Pathfinder Integrates InnerOptic’s Ultrasound Tracking Capabilities in Explorer Navigation System

Pathfinder Technologies, the developer of computer-assisted navigation products, and InnerOptic Technology, the developer of ultrasound-guided navigation products, announced a licensing agreement today that will enable Pathfinder to offer InnerOptic’s technology on its Explorer™ navigation system.

7 Mar 2013

Transmission X-ray Microscopy Uncovers Cellular-Level Detail of Bone Damage

From athletes to individuals suffering from osteoporosis, bone fractures are usually the result of tiny cracks accumulating over time -- invisible rivulets of damage that, when coalesced, lead to that painful break.

7 Mar 2013

Digital Lumens’ Intelligent LED Lighting System Earns Top Scores

Digital Lumens announced today that its Intelligent LED Lighting System has earned an impressive 4.5 stars (out of a possible five) in the Environmental Leader Technology Reviews program, underscoring the company's industry-leading position in the development and deployment of networked LED lighting that delivers up to 90 percent lighting energy savings to commercial and industrial customers around the world.

7 Mar 2013

Sandia National Laboratories Builds Largest Fiber Optical Network

Sandia National Laboratories has become a pioneer in large-scale passive optical networks, building the largest fiber optical local area network in the world.

7 Mar 2013

Point Grey Introduces Machine Vision Camera with CCD Technology and USB 3.0 Interface

Point Grey, a world-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative, high-performance digital cameras, today announced its latest innovation in imaging with the Grasshopper3, the world’s first machine vision camera family to combine CCD technology with a USB 3.0 interface.

7 Mar 2013

Digital Lumens Advances LightRules Lighting Control Software

Digital Lumens announced today that LightRules™ lighting control software has been expanded to include new capabilities, including coordinated control.

7 Mar 2013

Larson Electronics Launches LED Light Tower Designed for Large Scale Worksites

Larson Electronics introduced today a new LED light tower built to provide high output in a self contained system that can be easily transported. The WAL-ML-4X150LED-3G LED Light Tower provides enough light output to illuminate up to an acre, can be transported along with five other units in the back of a pickup, and can operate independently of external power sources via its own onboard generator for up to 8 hours on a single tank of fuel.

6 Mar 2013

Ingenious Mechanism Allows Safe, Continuous Use of High Beam in Cars

The new Volvo S60, V60 and XC60 - shown to the public for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show - can be fitted with an innovation that makes driving in the dark safer and more comfortable. The renewed Active High Beam Control makes it possible to use high beam continuously thanks to an ingenious mechanism that prevents dazzling of oncoming drivers.

6 Mar 2013

Philips Lumileds Introduces LUXEON 3535L Family of Mid-Power LEDs,

Today, Philips Lumileds introduced the LUXEON 3535L family of mid-power LEDs, offering 165 lumens per watt (165 lm/W) at cool white and 150 lm/W at warm white, the highest efficacy available for the category on the market.

From Lumileds 6 Mar 2013

PTB Scientists Develop Traceable Laser Hygrometer

Humidity measurements in the atmosphere are of essential importance, since water vapour, as the most important natural greenhouse gas, has a strong influence on the Earth's atmospheric radiation balance and, thus, decisively influences our climate.

6 Mar 2013

ZTE Honors AppliedMicro with Supplier of the Year Award

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, also known as AppliedMicro, a global leader in computing and connectivity solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers, today announced that it has been honored by telecommunications equipment leader ZTE with its 2012 Supplier of the Year Award.

6 Mar 2013

Southern Telecom Completes Installation of Georgia State University's Northern Fiber Optic Ring

Southern Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Company, today announced an expansion of its agreement with Georgia State University, a leading research university in Atlanta, Ga.

From Southern Telecom 5 Mar 2013

Skorpios Delivers Full C-Band Tunable CMOS Photonic Laser

Skorpios Technologies, Inc., an innovator in silicon photonic technology, today announced demonstration of a full C-band tunable CMOS photonic laser manufactured in a commercial foundry utilizing its proprietary STAB process.

5 Mar 2013

Photonics Forum Provides Key Technology Information on New VDMA Website

The Photonics Forum within the German Engineering Federation (VerbandDeutscherMaschinen- und Anlagenbau – VDMA) – the theme-based affiliation of seven VDMA photonics-related professional sectors – appears in its own information platform in the new digital network of the VDMA my.VDMA.org.

5 Mar 2013

DSI Introduces Enhanced Capability to Manufacture Patterned Optical Filters

Deposition Sciences, Inc. (DSI®), manufacturer of highly durable thin film optical coatings, introduces an enhanced capability to manufacture patterned optical filters. DSI has increased its capacity and resolution with the introduction of a new photolithography production line capable of patterning 200 mm diameter wafers.

From Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI) 5 Mar 2013