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Tiny Blue-Violet Laser Offers Strength and Power

Photonic Products is pleased to announce that Sanyo’s tiny blue-violet laser diodes are now available in industrial strength and power.

19 Jan 2008

New Chips Call on Light Speed

The tiny copper wires that connect different areas of an integrated circuit may soon limit microchip-processing speeds. So European researchers have developed technologies to produce and combine semiconductor microlasers with silicon wave guides for novel, power-efficient optical connections.

18 Jan 2008

Nextreme Thermal Releases Latest Ultra-High Packing Fraction OptoCooler Module

Nextreme Thermal Solutions, announces the availability of a new thermoelectric module - the Ultra-High Packing Fraction (UPF) OptoCooler module - that addresses the latest cooling and temperature control requirements for optoelectronics, electronics, medical, military and aerospace applications.

17 Jan 2008

Pixelplus to Supply SoC Image Sensors for Mobile Camera Phones

Pixelplus Co., Ltd., a fabless semiconductor company in Korea that designs, develops, and markets CMOS image sensors for various consumer electronics applications, today announced that the Company has secured a strategic design win to supply its PO4010 CIF 'System-on-a-Chip' ("SoC") image sensors ("PO4010") for use in upcoming mobile camera phones of Pantech.

16 Jan 2008

QPC Lasers Showcases Next Generation Products at SPIE Photonics West Conference

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer, industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced that it will showcase its next generation products and technologies at the SPIE Photonics West Conference and at the Biomedical Optics (BIOS) Exhibition on January 19-24th in San Jose, CA.

16 Jan 2008

Turnkey Solution Dramatically Increases Efficiencies of Solar Cells

Braggone, the optoelectronics materials company, has signed a joint development agreement with equipment supplier Beneq that offers a turnkey solution to provide a custom matched material and toolset for the maximum manufacturing efficiency and product performance of solar cells.

16 Jan 2008

Licensing Agreement Enables Nemotek to Offer Full Range of Cost-Efficient Camera Solutions

Tessera Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry, today announced that it has licensed its OptiML™ Wafer-Level Camera (WLC) technology and SHELLCASE® Wafer-Level Chip Scale Packaging (WLCSP) solutions to Nemotek S.A. The combination of these consumer optics technologies enables Nemotek to offer a full range of cost-efficient camera solutions from wafer-level packaging of image sensors and wafer-level lenses to fully-integrated camera modules.

16 Jan 2008

RIO Expanding Fiber Optic Sensor Market Portfolio

RIO today announced product availability of a narrow spectral linewidth, low phase noise laser, housed in an industry-standard 14-pin butterfly package, specifically designed for fiber optic sensing applications.

16 Jan 2008

Boston College Selects JEOL Microscopes for Nanofabrication Clean Room Facility

JEOL USA announced today that Boston College has selected the new JEOL MultiBeam Focused Ion Beam system and a Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope for its nanofabrication clean room facility in Newton, Massachusetts.

15 Jan 2008

New VBG Technology Improves Laser Diode Performance

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently granted PD-LD, Inc, the worldwide leader in Volume Bragg Grating® (VBG®) technology, an additional patent bolstering the firm’s diverse portfolio of exclusive VBG® products and services.

11 Jan 2008

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