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Nanomechanical Dual-Core Optical Fibers Enhance Data Processing

Optical fibers –the backbone of the Internet–carry movies, messages, and music at the speed of light. But for all their efficiency, these ultrathin strands of pristine glass must connect to sluggish signal switches, routers, and buffers in order to transmit data. Hoping to do away with these information speed bumps, researchers have developed a new, dual-core optical fiber that can perform the same functions just by applying a miniscule amount of mechanical pressure.

From Optical Society Of America 20 Dec 2012

CyberOptics to Showcase SPI and AOI Inspection Solutions at INTERNEPCON

CyberOptics Corporation announces that it will present its newest range of SPI and AOI inspection solutions in booth 52-9 at the upcoming INTERNEPCON Japan.

From CyberOptics Corporation 20 Dec 2012

Mentor Graphics Upgrades LED Measurement Solutions for Auto-Lighting

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced significant advances in their T3Ster®+TeraLED® measurement and characterization hardware, as well as in FloEFD™ software simulation products, to meet the needs of lighting developers using arrays of LEDs in headlights, taillights and other transportation industry applications. These advances enable developers to efficiently manage the heat and condensation developed by these arrays thus improving product reliability and life.

19 Dec 2012

Bridgelux LED Completes 48,000 Consecutive Hours of Reliability Testing

Bridgelux, a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month and, to commemorate the event, the company announced that one of its LEDs has completed 48,000 consecutive hours of reliability testing.

19 Dec 2012

Global Optical Digitizer and Scanner Market to Grow to $467.1 Million in 2016

The global optical digitizer and scanner market is seeing rapid growth in unit sales based on increased end-user measurement needs, as well as greater innovation and product capabilities. To keep pace with evolving end-user requirements, equipment suppliers are consistently reinvesting in research and development. The resulting advances in probe technology, software, accuracy, and integration methods are creating further opportunities for high-end optical digitizers and scanners.

19 Dec 2012

Planetary Nebula NGC 5198 Resembles a Brightly Colored Ribbon in Space

Planetary nebulae represent a final brief stage in the life of a star like the Sun. While consuming the last of the fuel in its core, the star expels a large portion of its outer regions, which then heats up and glows brightly, showing intricate structures that scientists are still trying to fully understand. The structure visible within NGC 5189 is particularly dramatic, and Hubble's image of the nebula is by far the most detailed yet made of this object [1].

19 Dec 2012

Synchrotron Imaging Reveals Previously Unseen Anatomy Preserved in Fossils

New Focus™, a Newport Corporation Brand, announces the new Model 8742 Open-Loop Picomotor controller/driver module with 4 channels. The compact, single-box design with an integrated controller and driver provides a low-cost solution for driving New Focus open-loop Picomotor products. The new module can be computer controlled with plug-and-play ease via the USB 2.0 and the 10/100 Ethernet interfaces using Newport's Motion Control Language (NMCL) command set.

19 Dec 2012

Newport Launches Open-Loop Picomotor Controller/Driver Module with 4 Channels

From Newport Corporation 19 Dec 2012

Olympus SCALEVIEW Microscope Objectives for Deeper Tissue Imaging Win Multiple Awards in 2012

Olympus SCALEVIEW microscope objectives, which allow researchers to see far deeper into tissue than was ever possible before, have earned recognition by four prestigious awards organizations this year.

18 Dec 2012

Researchers Reverse Circuitry of Optogenetic Switches

A Harvard University chemical biology lab has re-engineered optogenetic switches, photosensitive proteins called rhodopsins inserted into mammalian cells to control electrical firing, so that the switches run backward, firing off bursts of fluorescent light that reveal newly detailed patterns of electrical activity in neural networks, beating cardiac cells and developing embryos, according to a Dec. 17 presentation at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

18 Dec 2012

Mobile Phone Combined with Magnifying Optics Leads to Diagnostic-Quality Microscope

By fitting a "smart" mobile phone with magnifying optics, bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley created a real "cell" phone, a diagnostic-quality microscope that can be used by clinics in developing countries and inside — and outside — American biology classrooms, according to Eva M. Schmid, PhD, who described the development of CellScope at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, Dec. 17, in San Francisco.

18 Dec 2012

Winners of 2012 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition Announced

The judges dove Down Under to select an Australian video of freshwater rotifers as First Prize winner in the 2012 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®, the world's foremost forum for showcasing microscope photos and movies of life science subjects. Ralph Grimm , a teacher from Jimboomba, Australia, captured the fascinating 58-second video showing the super-fast movements of tiny animals whose hair-like cilia beat constantly to sweep food into their mouths.

18 Dec 2012

Nikon Debuts High Content Microscope System for Research Applications

Nikon Instruments Inc. today introduced a new High Content microscope system featuring speed and flexibility for imaging and managing biological assays utilizing a system based on the classic Nikon Ti inverted microscope and NIS-Elements Software.

From Nikon Instruments Inc. 18 Dec 2012

Inventor of Powerful STEM Microscope Technology Wins Forbes Honors

Adrian Cheng, a scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, was named today in Forbes’ second annual “30 Under 30” list of tomorrow’s brightest stars. Cheng invented a powerful microscope technology that can image thousands of neurons in the brain simultaneously. The technique allows scientists to watch the working brain at unprecedented scale and resolution, capturing images nearly ten times faster than a video camera.

18 Dec 2012

ARPA’s 100G Plans Globally Deployable Fiber-Optic-Equivalent Communications Backbone

Fiber optic cables provide the core backbone for military and civilian networks, enabling Internet, phone, video and other data to move at super-high speeds with virtually no degradation over long distances. In deployed environments, where a fiber optic backbone doesn’t exist, other communications modes are used resulting in reduced data-rate capacity for the warfighter.

18 Dec 2012