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Curtiss-Wright Introduces New Range of Dual LED Backlit Skyquest Displays

Curtiss-Wright Control Group’s, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC) has introduced the new range of Dual LED Backlit Skyquest Displays for airborne operations.

By Andy Choi 30 Sep 2011

Calix Adds Three More ONTs to its Current Portfolio

An US-based broadband service provider, has announced at the 2011 FTTH Conference and Expo that it has added three more Optical Network Terminals (ONT) to its existing Calix Unified Access Portfolio, which is aimed at small and medium businesses and markets of the mobile backhaul.

By Andy Choi 30 Sep 2011

ADTRAN Increases FTTH Capacity of Total Access 5000

ADTRAN, which specialises in providing next-generation networking solutions, has announced that it will increase the (FTTH) capacity for GPON and Active Ethernet applications of its Total Access 5000 Multi-Service Access and Aggregation platform by double.

From ADTRAN, Inc. 30 Sep 2011

Dow Corning to Showcase Silicon-Based LED Lighting at Strategies in Light Europe

Dow Corning, a global silicones and silicon-based technology company, is to showcase its high-performance, innovative silicon-based solutions for LED Lighting at the Strategies in Light Europe exhibition.

By Andy Choi 30 Sep 2011

MaxLite Introduces HighBay Lighting Fixtures with Pre-Installed Occupancy Sensors

MaxLite, a global producer and marketer of luminaires and lamps, has introduced the T5 HighBay Lighting Fixtures with occupancy sensors.

By Andy Choi 30 Sep 2011

Leica Microsystems to Incorporate Intelligent Digital Visualization Components into Surgical Products from TrueVision

Leica Microsystems and TrueVision 3D Surgical announced today that Leica will incorporate key components of TrueVision’s 3D intelligent digital visualization and guidance platform into selected Leica Microsystems surgical products.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 29 Sep 2011

SiMPore Win Grant to Develop TEM Imaging for Biomedical Applications

SiMPore Inc., an early-stage nanotechnology company in Rochester, NY, has received a Phase I SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve phase contrast transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

29 Sep 2011

Norburn Lighting to Introduce WAC Lighting’s SOL OLED Chandelier

WAC Lighting will display its high-end decorative Organic LED (OLED) chandelier Sōl at Norburn Lighting’s counter at the IDS West Show that will be held in Vancouver from September 29th to October 2nd.

By Andy Choi 29 Sep 2011

Researchers Use LED Lighting to Study Photosynthesis in Bacteria

Research teams at the High Flux Isotope Reactor of the BioSans instrument have devised a new LED lighting tool to study how cyanobacteria react to light.

By Andy Choi 29 Sep 2011

Exar Launches 8-Channel LED Driver

Exar has announced that it has launched the XRP7618, 8-channel continuous current LED driver. This driver can be used to drive eight strings of multiple LEDs and can be used for backlighting applications in large and medium sized panels.

By Andy Choi 29 Sep 2011

Wavelength Electronics Releases USBKIT Interface for Laser Diode and Temperature Control

Wavelength Electronics has launched a new precision USB laser diode and temperature control for its laser control system. The new control is a cost-effective package comprising an USBKIT interface board along with the software.

By Andy Choi 29 Sep 2011

High-Field Open MRI Oasis Installed in King’s Open Imaging Facility

King’s Open Imaging has declared that deployment of the first true open, high-field MRI, Oasis in Salt Lake City located in Utah has been completed. Crane delivery of the magnet of the Oasis was done into King’s Open Imaging Premises at South Redwood Road.

By Andy Choi 28 Sep 2011

Novel Nano-Optical Device Breaks Barrier to Handling Nanoparticles

Harvard engineers have developed a novel device called plasmonic nanotweezers that utilize laser light to capture nanoparticles. The new device could facilitate the study and isolation of minute particles such as viruses.

By Andy Choi 28 Sep 2011

Researchers Discover Algorithm to Determine Image Focus Error

Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin have found an algorithm that can retrieve and utilize information from a single image to measure the distance of objects from the focus distance. Until now, only visual systems of animals and human beings could accomplish this.

By Andy Choi 28 Sep 2011

GT Crystal Systems Obtains Order for Sapphire Blank for Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Telescope

GT Crystal Systems, a subsidiary of GT Advanced Technologies has obtained an order for a low absorption, huge, optical sapphire blank for the Japan-based Large-Scale Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Telescope (LCGT) program.

By Andy Choi 28 Sep 2011