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Northrop Grumman Awards Optical Filter Contract to PPGI

Photonic Products Group, Inc., announced today that its INRAD business unit received a follow-on production contract for proprietary ultra-violet (UV) waveband optical filter elements from Northrop Grumman's Defensive Systems Division based in Rolling Meadows, IL. This award is the largest PPGI has received to date from this customer, covering monthly deliveries from February 2008 through July 2009 at double last year's production rate.

23 Jan 2008

New Solution Speeds Electromagnetic Simulation of Image Sensors by Up to 20 Times

Acceleware Corp., a leading developer of high performance computing (HPC) applications, and Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, today announced a new hardware solution that enables up to 20-times faster electromagnetic simulation of optoelectronic devices such as CMOS image sensors.

22 Jan 2008

New Pump Laser Provides More than 1 kW of Pump Power

Avensys Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Avensys Corporation today announced that its R&D partner, ITF Laboratories Inc. (ITF Labs) has successfully passed all the Telecordia GR-1221-CORE qualification requirements and therefore added another key product to its high power end-coupled fiber combiner family.

22 Jan 2008

DMD Discovery Developer Platform Drives High Performance and Resolution

DLP(R) Technology from Texas Instruments (TI), is highlighting the latest Discovery(TM) 4000 development platform at the Photonics West Show this week -- Booth #5036. The Discovery 4000 enables extremely fast, high contrast and high resolution display applications with an optical semiconductor module that allows developers to manipulate light digitally.

22 Jan 2008

World's First Digital Camera to Hit the One-Million Pictures-Per-Second Mark

Vision Research, a leading manufacturer of high speed digital imaging systems, today marked another world's first with the launch of the Phantom® V12, a revolutionary new high-speed digital camera that can record an amazing 1,000,000 pictures-per-second (pps).

22 Jan 2008

Deep-UV Optical Coating for Highly Accurate and Reliable Beam Delivery

Agilent Technologies Inc., a leader in precision optics, today announced the availability of deep-UV optical coating.

22 Jan 2008

Fiber Optic Temperature Sensors for High Temperature Applications

Photon Control Inc. is announcing that its R&D division has completed development of a new series of fiber optic temperature sensors which are capable of accurate temperature measurement up to 450°C.

22 Jan 2008

New Adaptive Optics Toolkit Provides Easy and Affordable Option for Researchers

Thorlabs, Inc. and Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC) today announced the Adaptive Optics (AO) Toolkit, a new kit that makes adaptive optics easy, affordable, and widely available for researchers.

21 Jan 2008

New Lasers for High-Precision Applications

JDSU will be highlighting new commercial lasers at this week's Photonics West conference in the San Jose Convention Center. JDSU's booth will feature multiple commercial laser and optical communications solutions that support a wide range of applications, including microelectronic, biophotonics and inspection, among others.

21 Jan 2008

Enablence Technologies Acquires Supplier of PLC Based Photonic Devices in California

Enablence Technologies Inc., a developer of Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) transceivers for optical modems, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of ANDevices Inc., subject to certain approvals, consents and conditions. ANDevices is a supplier of Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) based photonic devices for the Access, Metro and Long-Haul communication markets and is based in Fremont, California.

20 Jan 2008

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