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Simple Optical Technique to Extract Audio Information from High-Speed Video Recordings

Those formerly silent walls can "talk" now: Researchers have demonstrated a simple optical technique by which audio information can be extracted from high-speed video recordings.

5 Dec 2014

New Market Research Report on Global and China Automated Optical Inspection Industry

RnRMarketResearch.com adds "Global and China Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) Industry Report, 2014-2018" market research of 163 pages under the electronics collection of its online business intelligence library.

5 Dec 2014

OpSec’s ISIS Optical Security Platform Renamed as Equinox

OpSec Security Group, the global leader in anti-counterfeiting and brand protection, today announced it has renamed its ISIS optical security platform to Equinox. The change is in response to ongoing western media coverage, utilising the name in association with the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.

5 Dec 2014

Analysis & Forecast Report on Silicon Photonics Market

Silicon Photonics Market by Products (Silicon Optical Interconnects & Wavelength Division Multiplexer Filters & Others), Applications (Telecommunication, Datacom, High Performance Computing & Others) & Geography - Analysis & Forecast (2013 - 2020)

4 Dec 2014

Global Photonic Integrated Circuit Market Forecast to Grow at 31.3% CAGR

Transparency Market Research has announced the release of a report titled “Photonic Integrated Circuit (IC) Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 – 2019”.

3 Dec 2014

Applied Optoelectronics Moves to Larger Factory in New Taipei City

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., a leading provider of fiber-optic access network products for the cable broadband, internet data center, and fiber-to-the-home markets, today announced the completion of the move to a new, larger factory in New Taipei City, Taiwan.

From Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. 3 Dec 2014

India Becomes Full Partner in Thirty Meter Telescope Project

Today in New Delhi, officials of the government of India signed documents establishing the country as a full partner in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project. An international collaboration of institutions in the USA, Canada, Japan, India and China, the TMT project is working towards building a powerful, next-generation astronomical observatory at Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

3 Dec 2014

Researchers Explore Ways to Make Very Large Aperture Telescope in Space

Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory are exploring a new type of space telescope with an aperture made of swarms of particles released from a canister and controlled by a laser.

2 Dec 2014

Researchers Discover Retina Can Sense Infrared Light Under Certain Conditions

Any science textbook will tell you we can’t see infrared light. Like X-rays and radio waves, infrared light waves are outside the visual spectrum.

2 Dec 2014

ERC-Funded Research Explores Practicalities of Invisibility

The idea of invisibility sounds like something out of science fiction: but could new research turn it from fiction into science? The ambition behind Professor Leonhardt’s ERC- funded research is to trace the connections between abstract theoretical concepts, drawn from geometry and relativity, and their practical implications in fields from materials to photonics. He will be presenting this research to the public at the TEDx Brussels event on 1 December.

2 Dec 2014