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FARO's All-New Laser ScanArm V3 with Enhanced Accuracy and Lighter in Weight

FARO Technologies, Inc., the world market leader in portable computer-aided measurement arms and laser tracker sales, announced it has released an all-new Laser ScanArm V3. Among the enhancements, the new technology is 30-percent more accurate, 33-percent lighter in weight, and offers better performance in scanning dark or reflective surfaces than the Company's V2 models.

5 Dec 2007

German Research Foundation Establishes Ten New Collaborative Research Centres

On 1 January 2008 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will establish ten new Collaborative Research Centres, which will receive a total of 74.4 million euros in funding over the next four years, as well as a lump sum of 20 percent to cover indirect costs incurred by the projects.

4 Dec 2007

Laser Energetics to Form Joint Venture to Market Laser for Dental Applications

Laser Energetics, Inc. announced today that the Company has signed a Memo Of Understanding ("MOU") with Lantis Laser, Inc. of Denville, NJ to form a Joint Venture, on a 50:50 basis, to market and distribute its BrightStar(TM) Alexandrite laser for dental applications.

4 Dec 2007

Northrop Grumman LITENING AT Demonstrates Reliability with Over 765,000 Operational Hours

Northrop Grumman Corporation today announced that the LITENING Advanced Targeting (AT) has achieved more than two years of operational availability consistently above 95 percent among all U.S. customers. LITENING AT systems are currently deployed with the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command, Air National Guard, Marine Corps, Air Combat Command and coalition forces.

4 Dec 2007

Custom-Made Security Products Using Laser Technology

CGM-AST has always brought the future of security products to its clientele. Now this subsidiary of Allied Security Innovations, Inc., brings future technology to its own production facilities with the use of laser equipment.

4 Dec 2007

AMS Technologies Introduces High Performance Fiber Coupled Laser Diode

AMS Technologies introduces Princeton Lightwave¡¯s high performance fiber coupled laser diode with an exceptional high power of 400mW @ 1550nm.

4 Dec 2007

Researchers Receives Grant for the Development of Laser Interference Coatings

The Office of Naval Research has awarded a Colorado State University professor and her academic partners at the University of New Mexico, Stanford University and Jefferson Lab a five-year, $2.5 million Multidisciplinary Research Initiative grant to advance the fundamental understanding and development of interference coatings for high energy lasers.

From Veeco 4 Dec 2007

QPC Wins Major Contract to Deliver Lasers Used in Rear Projection Televisions

"QPC," a world leader in the development and commercialization of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer, industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced that it has won a major contract to develop and deliver lasers to be used in rear projection televisions based on DLP and LCOS technologies.

3 Dec 2007

Window Films Provides Simple and Effective Protection from Damaging Radiation

With summertime days away in the southern hemisphere, the threat from an unseen intruder significantly increases. Overexposure to UV radiation, highest during summer months, causes about 60,000 deaths a year worldwide, according to World Health Organization (WHO).

3 Dec 2007

Metrologic Releases World's Best-Selling Series of Hand-Held Single-Line Laser Scanners

Metrologic Instruments, Inc. today announced the release of the newest addition to the world's best-selling series of hand-held, single-line laser scanners. The MS9590 VoyagerGS, featuring a trigger design, provides aggressive bar code scanning for general-purpose linear bar code applications like those commonly found in retail, healthcare, government, and office environments.

3 Dec 2007