The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team members have obtained the initial photos from the remote micro imager on the ChemCam instrument. The first 10 photos were successfully captured by ChemCam and this will allow the scientists to arrange the first test bursts of the system’s rock-zapping laser in the future.
By Will Soutter
20 Aug 2012
ATG Electronics has announced that its iBright G5 EPS HO LED Tube and eLucent R30T and R38T LED PAR lamps have received Lighting Design Lab and Energy Star certifications, respectively. These certifications will help customers to avail rebates from numerous energy firms upon installation of these products.
Vishay Intertechnology has introduced a series of colorful LEDs in white, blue, green, yellow, yellow green, orange and red mounted on a 0402 ChipLED package. The latest and advanced InGaN and AllnGaP technology is used in the white and blue LEDs of the VLMx1500-GS08 series to increase the light output by three times.
By Will Soutter
18 Aug 2012
Minerals Technologies has introduced a new Lacam laser measurement system for the global steel industry. This new, fourth generation technology is 17 times faster compared to the earlier version and it provides the most accurate and faster laser scanning for hot spots.
By G.P. Thomas
18 Aug 2012
Yokogawa Electric has announced the successful completion of a sales and distribution agreement with the US affiliate of Olympus. As per the agreement, Olympus America will exclusively distribute CellVoyager CV1000, an all-in-one confocal microscopy system from Yokogawa, in the Canadian and US markets.
By Will Soutter
18 Aug 2012
Positron has announced the utilization of its Attrius PET system at Caring Heart and Brain Imaging, the first cardiac as well as brain PET imaging facility in Manasquan, New Jersey. Now, Caring Heart and Brain Imaging performs Amyvid PET scans to detect the presence of brain plaques related to Alzheimer's disease.
By Will Soutter
18 Aug 2012
The Los Angeles 2.0 MR16 LED light bulb from LED Waves is less than 5 W and can be used to replace a 35 W halogen MR16. This bulb features a heat sink design, which could be accomplished by Computer Numeric Control machining.
By G.P. Thomas
18 Aug 2012
Measuring proteins in real-time down to fM solution concentration
levels, corresponding to only a few thousand of protein molecules, has
been demonstrated for the first time using a hybrid photonic-plasmonic
Whispering Gallery Mode biosensor. Its unprecedented sensitivity is due
to optical trapping of proteins at highly sensitive plasmonic hotspots.
Concentrator photovoltaics technology utilizes optics like curved mirrors or lenses to focus a high amount of sunlight onto a tiny area of solar photovoltaic cells to produce electricity.
By Will Soutter
17 Aug 2012
Ocean Optics’ three customized HR2000 spectrometers have concluded its eight month exploration journey to Mars to analyze the composition of soil as part of the ChemCam mission. NASA’s Mars Science Lab rover, Curiosity, was launched with the Ocean Optics instruments onboard in November 2011.
By G.P. Thomas
17 Aug 2012
Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have for the first time directly observed distinctly quantum optical phenomena, namely amplification and squeezing, in an optomechanical system.
By Will Soutter
17 Aug 2012
An extraordinary galaxy cluster was discovered by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) located at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. This telescope was funded by the National Science Foundation. The cluster, which was officially known as SPT-CLJ2344-4243, is called the Phoenix cluster since it is found in the Phoenix constellation.
By Will Soutter
17 Aug 2012
To reinforce its long and successful history, the GSI Group Laser Division has rebranded as JK Lasers. The company, which marked its 40th anniversary earlier this year, remains committed to developing and manufacturing class leading Nd:YAG and fiber lasers for industrial applications.
Zecotek Photonics declared that it has received U.S. Patent Allowance for data acquisition for positron emission tomography (PET) scanning devices. The patent portfolio of Zecotek will become powerful, and the company anticipates being positioned as a well-established patent holder within the photonics technology environment.
A new chemical sensor has been developed by U.S. Army researchers. This sensor is capable of simultaneous real time detection of a large number of agents. This system was reported in a paper released by Optics Letters, the Optical Society's (OSA) journal.