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AMO and IER to Develop Contact Lens Disinfectant and Cleaning Solutions Products

Advanced Medical Optics, Inc., a global leader in ophthalmic surgical devices and eye care products, has announced a collaboration with the Institute for Eye Research (IER) to develop contact lens disinfectant and cleaning solutions and related products.

16 Jun 2008

Company Invited to Present on Advanced Laser Technology for Pocket Projectors

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer electronics, industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced that it will exhibit at Projection Summit 2008 and demonstrate its miniature BrightLase® Red-Green-Blue "RGB" laser.

16 Jun 2008

Compact Device Supports Up to 60 White LEDs for Medium-Sized LCD Applications

Helping display manufacturers meet demands for more efficient power technologies in displays, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) introduced today an innovative, six-channel, 40-V white light emitting diode (LED) driver with a built-in, high-efficiency boost regulator and 1.5-A FET.

12 Jun 2008

Keeping Track of Visitors at Major Sporting Events

The silky skills of Europe's top footballers will not be the only eye catcher this summer as the movement of the fans themselves fall under the watchful gaze of state-of-the-art video surveillance.

12 Jun 2008

NIH Conduct Tests on Green Fiber Laser in Flow Cytometry Applications

Zecotek Photonics Inc. is pleased to announce that the National Cancer Institute, a division of the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH), recently conducted tests on its proprietary Green Fiber Laser (GFL-550) in flow cytometry applications.

5 Jun 2008

AMS Technologies Announces Availability of Solid State UV Lasers

Diode-pumped frequency-multiplied solid state UV lasers of the US manufacturer DPSS Lasers Inc. are available from AMS Technologies.

5 Jun 2008

Using Light to Destroy Cancer

When Sammie Bush mentioned to his doctor that he sometimes felt something in the back of his throat, he didn't expect to learn that he had cancer or that he would be the first patient at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago to undergo photodynamic therapy -- a new procedure that uses light to destroy cancer.

4 Jun 2008

Solid-State Lighting to Replace Incandescent and Fluorescent Lighting

Professor Shuji Nakamura, Director UC Santa Barbara's Solid-State Lighting and Energy Center, has been named a recipient of the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.

4 Jun 2008

Advanced Technology Drives Ongoing Live-Cell Research

Nikon Instruments Inc. and Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine announced the opening of a collaborative core microscopy imaging center, establishing a partnership that brings improved research capabilities to Northwestern, while providing critical feedback for Nikon product development.

4 Jun 2008

Physicians Say Sedationless Transnasal Endoscopy is Now Practical

Vision-Sciences, Inc. announced today that it has launched to the global gastroenterology market its new video-based flexible esophagoscope at the Digestive Disease Week Annual Conference in San Diego, California.

4 Jun 2008

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