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Non-Linear Optics Researcher Earns NSF CAREER Award

A Johns Hopkins engineer who is developing a high-speed imaging system designed to enable researchers to continuously record images at a rate of more than 100 million frames per second – 100 times more rapidly than current technology allows – has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, a five-year, $400,000 grant.

8 Feb 2013

Gamma Scientific Announce New Optical Integrating Tube System for Spectral Measurements of Tube Lamps

Gamma Scientific, pioneers in LED testing for over 40 years, will be demonstrating their new, Optical Integrating Tube and Spectral Sphere Systems in booth 301 at the Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara, CA from February 12-14, 2013.

From Gamma Scientific 7 Feb 2013

Wearable Cameras Help Better Understand Health and Lifestyle Behaviors

Understanding the relationships between lifestyle behaviors and health outcomes can be enhanced by the use of wearable cameras, concludes a collection of studies in a special theme issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

7 Feb 2013

Ultra High-Definition 4K Digital Signage Display from LG Electronics

LG Electronics USA has introduced the industry's first "Ultra High-Definition" 4K digital signage display, the commercial version of the award-winning LG 84-inch class (84.04 inch diagonal) Ultra HD TV.

7 Feb 2013

NIT Demonstrates WiddY Sensor Board Using Lattice Semiconductor's HDR60 Development Kit at Photonics West

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that New Imaging Technologies (NIT) is demonstrating its WiDy Sensor board with the LatticeECP3™-based HDR60 Camera Development Kit at Photonics West in San Francisco.

From Lattice Semiconductor Corporation 7 Feb 2013

FDA Clears BIOLASE’s Diolase 10 Diode Soft Tissue Laser for Broader Medical Procedures

BIOLASE, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of dental lasers, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the 940nm Diolase 10 diode soft tissue laser for use in 19 additional medical markets including: ear, nose and throat, oral surgery, arthroscopy, gastroenterology, general surgery, dermatology, plastic surgery, podiatry, GI/GU, gynecology, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, pulmonary surgery, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, urology, dermatology, aesthetics, and vascular surgery. This FDA clearance includes over 80 different procedures.

7 Feb 2013

Robust Industrial Grade LED Light Fixture from Larson Electronics

Larson Electronics has announced the addition of a powerful industrial grade LED light fixture designed to withstand the damaging effects of wet and corrosive environments.

7 Feb 2013

Fairchild Semiconductor to Demonstrate LED Driver Applications at Light 2013

During Strategies in Light 2013, February 12-14, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif., Fairchild Semiconductor, a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile solutions, will demonstrate LED driver applications, including the highly integrated PFC and PWM controllers, which allow designers to reduce BOM count, enable smaller lamp sizes, eliminate design complexity, and improve overall lighting efficiency.

7 Feb 2013

World Demand for Lighting Set to Grow 12.3% Annually Through 2016

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: World Lighting: Lamps & LEDs Market

7 Feb 2013

Cree LED Luminaires Illuminate Richard Petty's Garage Complex

Nicknamed “The King” of NASCAR®, Richard Petty has endorsed Cree® LED lighting after enthusiastically transforming his 100,000 square-foot garage with state-of-the-art LED fixtures by Cree, Inc.

7 Feb 2013

Researchers Create Light-Emitting Triangular Structures

For the first time, scientists have created single layers of a naturally occurring rare mineral called tungstenite, or WS2.

7 Feb 2013

New Way to Lock Structural Color

Iridescence, or sheen that shifts color depending on your viewing angle, is pretty in peacock feathers. But it's been a nuisance for engineers trying to mimic the birds' unique color mechanism to make high-resolution, reflective, color display screens.

7 Feb 2013

ITT Exelis successfully completed an optical fabrication contract for the University of Rochester’s Lab for Laser Energetics.

7 Feb 2013

AstraNet Launch New Low Volume Spectrophotometers for Life Science

AstraNet Systems Ltd (Cambridge, England), a manufacturer of analyser systems based on fibre optic coupled spectrophotometry, is pleased to announce the availability of another new product for the Life Sciences market.

From AstraNet Systems Ltd. 6 Feb 2013

Ophir Photonics Launch New Pyrocam IV Laser Profiling Camera at Photonics West

Ophir Photonics, global leader in precision laser measurement equipment and a Newport Corporation brand, today announced the Pyrocam IV at Photonics West.

From Ophir Photonics Group 6 Feb 2013