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Cooper Lighting Products Added to City Furniture Superstore

Cooper Lighting, a provider of lighting fixtures and controls, has declared that its products have been included in a City Furniture superstore.

By Andy Choi 12 Dec 2011

Siemens Healthcare to Deliver Imaging Systems and Software to Brazilian Alliar

Siemens Healthcare obtained orders from a particular supplier in Latin America regarding equipments for medical imaging.

By Andy Choi 12 Dec 2011

LED Waves Starts Launching LED Lights in USA

LED Waves, based in Brooklyn, apart from being an OEM, supplies customized and retrofit lighting products. Formerly, domestic production was restricted to projects for private OEM customers. However, this year marks the beginning of a new phase for the company.

By Andy Choi 12 Dec 2011

Rich Brilliant Willing’s Lighting Collection Available at Lumens.com

Rich Brilliant Willing’s lighting series has been launched by Lumens Light + Living. An innovative product design approach has resulted in its rising global success. Established in 2007, Rich Brilliant Willing has engineered products for its very own array of contemporary lighting and for other companies including Innermost and Roll & Hill.

By Andy Choi 12 Dec 2011

New Imaging Technique for Detecting Atherosclerotic Plaque

Pu Wang and his colleagues from Purdue University, West Lafayette, and Indiana University School of Medicine (USA) have now developed a promising new one method for characterization of atherosclerotic plaque.

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 11 Dec 2011

Researchers Develop Ultrasensitive Method by Coupling Atoms to Light in Glass Fiber

A research team led by Professor Arno Rauschenbeutel Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, in partnership with the researchers at the Johannes Gutenberg University has developed an ultrasensitive method by controllably coupling single atoms to light within ultra-thin fiber glass having a thickness of 500 nm, paving the way to develop detectors that are capable of sensing ultra-trace amounts of materials.

By Andy Choi 9 Dec 2011

METaL Lab of Iowa State Facilitates Virtual Imaging for Industrial Research

Ryan Pavlik and Leif Berg, the doctoral students of Iowa State University were provided with a pair of 3-D glasses and a Wii remote. Iowa State’s Multimodal Experience Testbed and Laboratory (METaL), a new virtual reality lab has been operating since February and is intended to be an everyday research tool.

By Andy Choi 9 Dec 2011

Implementation Agreement for OTN Switching Accomplished by OIF

Members of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) validated an implementation agreement (IA) for OTN-over-Packet-Fabric Protocol. The OIF initiative presents the market demand for architectural challenges, packet and optical convergence, along with transporting Packet and OTN traffic on a general cell switching or packet fabric.

By Andy Choi 9 Dec 2011

Developing Swift Lasers to Analyze Combustion in Jet Engines

The Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton have created lasers that will enable a better knowledge about the process of combustion in jet engines, thereby minimizing emissions.

By Andy Choi 9 Dec 2011

Sunrise Telecom Introduces Fiber Optics Toolkit

Sunrise Telecom has complemented its RxT Smart Productivity Test Platform with the addition of FiberScope inspection option and RxT-4000 Fiber Optics Toolkit (FOT).

By Andy Choi 9 Dec 2011

Advanced Laser Rangefinder by Lockheed Martin for US Army

Lockheed Martin provided the U.S. Army with the modernized day sensor assembly (M-DSA) upgrade models for exercising on the Apache attack helicopter.

By Andy Choi 9 Dec 2011

Crystallisation of Optoelectonic Films Studied Using a Linkam Temperature Stage

Linkam Scientific Instruments, report on the work of Professor Yves Henri Geerts from the Université Libre de Bruxelles where he uses a specially designed temperature stage to study crystallisation processes in opto-electronic thin films.

8 Dec 2011

New Study Enables Prediction of Fractures Using Dental X-Rays

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg have conducted a new study, which has demonstrated that there is a possibility to utilize the dental X-rays for examining the structure of bone in the lower jaw.

By Andy Choi 8 Dec 2011

Carmanah Declares its Outdoor Illumination Order Worth $1M in Mexico

Mexican executives have chosen the EG-series solar LED lighting system for its outdoor area project worth $1M USD. This novel, independent EG-series of Carmanah solutions’ solar outdoor lights caters to the entire performance requirements by providing reduced capital cost with significant products, cost-efficiency, and energy cost conservation without any electrical cabling during the operation.

By Andy Choi 8 Dec 2011

Bridgelux Introduces Advanced LED Arrays in the Market

Bridgelux, a producer and designer of LED lighting solutions declared the market availability of its improved series that includes LS, ES, and RS product families, having up to 30% increased efficiency and minimizing cost per lumen by 30% compared to the earlier range of products.

By Andy Choi 8 Dec 2011