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Leaders in Advanced Imaging to Present Cell Research at AAAS Annual Meeting

New microscope technologies provide images of unparalleled detail, allowing scientists to view individual cells – and even single molecules within the cells – moving in real time. These advances pave the way for better understanding of and treatment for diseases in humans, including cancer.

6 Feb 2013

Ophir Introduces NIST-Calibrated Laser Beam Profiler at Photonics West

Ophir Photonics, global leader in precision laser measurement equipment and a Newport Corporation brand, today announced NanoScan 2 at Photonics West, the new version of their scanning slit beam profiler.

From Ophir Photonics Group 6 Feb 2013

NKT Photonics to Supply Fiber Amplifier Module for Coherent Sub-Nanosecond Pulsed Laser

NKT Photonics, the pioneer of photonic crystal fibers, and Coherent, Inc., a world leader in lasers and laser systems for commercial and scientific markets, today announced that NKT Photonics will supply a high-power fiber amplifier module for use in Coherent’s newly released Daytona sub-nanosecond pulsed laser, targeted at various micro-electronics applications.

From NKT Photonics A/S 6 Feb 2013

New Reports on Global Lighting Industry and OLED Displays Market

The global OLED displays market is expected to reach $25.9 billion by 2018 from $4.9 billion in 2012 growing at a CAGR of 31.7 percent from 2012 to 2018. Mobile phones are the largest end use application and accounted for 71 percent of the total OLED displays market in 2012. Asia Pacific region is the biggest producer as well as consumer of OLED displays and contributed almost 90 percent to the OLED displays market in 2012.

5 Feb 2013

BMC Debuts Reflective Optical Chopper at Photonics West

Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC), a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products and adaptive optics systems, today introduced here at Photonics West the Reflective Optical Chopper (ROC). Designed to out-perform the traditional optical chopper, the ROC offers greater frequency range and a faster chopping speed without the need to alter the beam size.

From Boston Micromachines Corporation 5 Feb 2013

Advantest Develops Two New Spectroscopy Systems

Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857, NYSE: ATE), a global leader in test and measurement sciences, has developed two new spectroscopy systems and a new transmittance polarization analysis module for its TAS7500 product series of systems, which employ terahertz waves to perform non-destructive imaging and analysis of samples.

5 Feb 2013

Neuroimaging Biomarker May Help Personalize Treatment for Depression

A telltale boost of activity at the back of the brain while processing emotional information predicted whether depressed patients would respond to an experimental rapid-acting antidepressant, a National Institutes of Health study has found.

5 Feb 2013

Researchers Utilize X-ray Computed Tomography to Create 3-D Images of Tiny Animals

Taxonomy – the discipline that defines and names groups of organisms – is a field of science that still employs many of the methods used during the beginnings of the discipline in the 18th century. Despite the increasing use of molecular information to delineate new species, the study of the morphology of specimens remains one of the major tasks of taxonomists.

5 Feb 2013

NCSU Testing Validates HexaTech's AlN Substrate Platform for UV-C Laser Opto-Electronic Applications

In a parallel effort to its development of UV-C light emitting diodes (LEDs), HexaTech recently demonstrated optically pumped, AlGaN-based lasers grown on highest-quality, single crystalline AlN substrates.

5 Feb 2013

Point Grey Launch New Ladybug5 30MP Spherical Imaging System

Point Grey, a world-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative, high-performance digital cameras, today announced the release of the all-new Ladybug®5 camera.

4 Feb 2013

Infinera Reports Test Completion of Ericsson OSMINE Services Process for DTN-X and DTN Platforms

Infinera, a leading provider of Digital Optical Networks, announced today the test completion of Ericsson (formerly Telcordia Technologies) Operations Systems Modification for the Integration of Network Elements (OSMINE) Services process for the Infinera DTN-X platform and the latest release of the DTN platform. This was fulfilled for various products within the OSMINE process including inventory management via TIRKS®, fault management via NMA® System, and service provisioning via Transport Element Activation Manager.

From Infinera 4 Feb 2013

CIPA Commences CP+2013 Camera & Photo Imaging Show in Yokohama, Japan

The Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) commenced its CP+2013 Camera & Photo Imaging Show, a comprehensive camera and photo imaging show, on January 31st in Yokohama, Japan. The event will be held for four days until February 3rd, 2013. More new products are introduced at CP+ than at any other imaging trade show in the world, and imaging technology is considered one of Japan's last manufacturing strongholds.

4 Feb 2013

Hamamatsu Photonics Releases Faster Back-Thinned Electron Multiplying CCD Sensor Camera

Hamamatsu Photonics has released the ImagEM X2, a new electron multiplying (EM) CCD camera with even faster speed than previous ImagEM cameras. The ImagEM X2, a completely redesigned camera featuring a back-thinned EM-CCD sensor, offers maximum speed and precision performance for low-light imaging.

From Hamamatsu Corporation 4 Feb 2013

Researchers Harness Optical Fibers to Transport Quantum Information

Not only do optical fibers transmit information every day around the world at the speed of light, but they can also be harnessed for the transport of quantum information. In the current issue of Nature Photonics, a research team of Innsbruck physicists led by Rainer Blatt and Tracy Northup report how they have directly transferred the quantum information stored in an atom onto a particle of light. Such information could then be sent over optical fiber to a distant atom.

4 Feb 2013

Teledyne DALSA to Showcase Advanced Imaging Components and IR Detectors at Photonics Conference

Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and a global leader in digital image sensing technology, will highlight its multispectral, extreme environment, IR and custom CCD and CMOS sensors and cameras at the SPIE Photonics West conference in booth 2523. The conference runs February 2-7 at the Moscone Center, in San Francisco, CA and focuses on biophotonics and biomedical optics, high-power laser manufacturing, optoelectronics, microfabrication, and green photonics technologies.

From Teledyne DALSA 2 Feb 2013