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Catalogue Details Wide Choice of Lighting for Machine Vision Applications

Moritex has announced a new 116-page general catalogue of Machine Vision light sources, fibre light guides and LED illumination products.

25 Jun 2008

World's First 16 Channel Camera Capturing Images at 200,000,000 Frames/s

Specialised Imaging Ltd. has recently delivered the World's first 16 channel camera capable of capturing images at 200,000,000 frames per second with gating down to 5ns to the UK's EPSRC Engineering Instrument Pool, which is run for the EPSRC by the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at Didcot in Oxfordshire.

12 Jun 2008

Single Laser Pulse Creates Complex, Ordered Nanostructure Systems

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden have reported that a single laser pulse can create complex, ordered nanostructure systems. This previously unobserved phenomenon has just beeen described in an article in the scientific journal Nature Photonics.

28 May 2008

Demand for Bandwidth Driving Global Deployment of Fiber Optic Networks

Broadband access networks are undergoing a change in terms of architecture and the applications and services being run on them. This change will have fundamental implications on the way access networks and associated business models are viewed. Service providers must consider network architectures that can address the challenges posed by the changing trends in end-user broadband usage.

20 May 2008

Optimizing Glass in Order to Increase the Lifetime of Fiber Lasers

Researchers have found new methods for optimizing glass in order to increase the lifetime of fiber lasers. The trend is to produce fiber lasers with higher output powers, which places great demands on the optical fiber. This has been shown at Mid Sweden University in Sweden.

19 May 2008