According to GBI Research, the global mania for smartphones will steer the future growth of the pico projector market, as growing consumer demands for the ability to make presentations, watch videos, and capture and see photos will promote new technological breakthroughs.
By Will Soutter
12 Jun 2012
Entries are being invited for the "Oscars of Photonics" – the 2013 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation. The global awards honor novel product inventions and celebrate innovation.
By G.P. Thomas
11 Jun 2012
Cree, a LED lighting innovator, has declared the establishment of new technology centers in China. This move further expands Cree Thermal, Electrical, Mechanical, Photometric, and Optical (TEMPO) Services in these major markets.
By Will Soutter
11 Jun 2012
LED Waves, a LED lighting company, has recently launched the dimmable Chicago 2.0 XB-D PAR-30 LED light bulb as an alternative for a 75 W halogen flood light.
By Will Soutter
11 Jun 2012
A novel method of generating bright laser pulses at x-ray energies was devised in the Photonics Institute labs at the Vienna University of Technology.
By G.P. Thomas
11 Jun 2012
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