International researches, headed by the University of Colorado Boulder, have used a tabletop device to successfully produce the first laser-like beams of X-rays. The discovery could promote major advances in several fields such as nanotechnology, medicine, and biology.
By Will Soutter
11 Jun 2012
Hi Score has decided to reestablish its efforts to focus on sales in the rapidly developing energy-saving LED streetlight market.
By Will Soutter
11 Jun 2012
On June 11, NASA will conduct a news teleconference, wherein it will confer about the impending launch of its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft. This soon-to-launch NuSTAR will take off on June 13, around 11:30 a.m. EDT.
By Will Soutter
8 Jun 2012
Vishay Intertechnology, a manufacturer of passive electronic components and discrete semiconductors, has launched a new reflective optical sensor, the TCNT2000. It is designed for computer, industrial and consumer applications.
By G.P. Thomas
8 Jun 2012
Sumitomo Electric Lightwave has introduced the FC-6RM-C fiber cleaver and the FC-6RS automatic blade rotation cleaver. The FC-6RM-C cleaver is the first automatic blade clever in the industry that is used for 1 to 12 fibers with high precision cleaves.
By Will Soutter
8 Jun 2012
Larson Electronics’ Magnalight.com has launched a portable lighting system, LED12W-1x4LT-IR light tower that includes four LED lights of 3 W power capacity, which are mounted on an adjustable aluminum shaft, whose height can be adjusted from 24 in.to 8 ft for in order to enable optical illumination of the area focused.
By Will Soutter
8 Jun 2012
BaySpec, Inc., a leader in advanced spectroscopic instruments, today announced the SuperGamut Wavelength Measurement System enabling low light spectral measurements of high speed light sources from the UV to near-infrared region.
Veeco Instruments has recently unveiled three new models of its innovative TurboDisc metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems. The latest models are TurboDisc MaxBright M, TurboDisc K465i HP and TurboDisc MaxBright MHP that will support the manufacture of high brightness light emitting diodes (LEDs).
EMBL Heidelberg researchers used a new microscope for capturing a 3D film of a fruit fly embryo. It was two-and-a-half hours old when it emerged out of the microscope as a larva.
By G.P. Thomas
6 Jun 2012
Directed by researchers from the Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (CNRS / Inserm / UPMC), an international team successfully used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to achieve better visual capabilities of a consortium of healthy subjects.
By Will Soutter
6 Jun 2012
The 3M Company’s Optical Systems Division integrate technologies with Nanosys that will result in wide color gamut technology that supports consumer electronic displays, through which Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) can display 50 % more color.
By Will Soutter
6 Jun 2012
Cablenet Communication Systems with an aim to increase its optical network capacity has bought equipment from Ekinops, a provider of advanced optical equipment. The equipment will enable transport over an individual optical fiber in a bidirectional manner and this indeed optimizes the fiber infrastructure of Cablenet.
By Will Soutter
6 Jun 2012
GreenGro Technologies, a company involved in green energy-efficient and environmental technologies has launched its first FLUX Paper product, which is part of its all-new FLUX LIGHTING product line. The product is being sold through the company’s e-commerce website.
By Will Soutter
6 Jun 2012
Fiber Connections Inc., a manufacturer of custom active and passive optical connectivity solutions, announced today that it is entering Beta testing on a new Industrial GatorPatch™, fiber optic patch panel.
At the 2012 Society for Information Display (SID) International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition, Universal Display, a provider of energy-efficient displays and lighting, will launch its new green, red, and yellow UniversalPHOLED products.
By Will Soutter
6 Jun 2012