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New Approach Enables Researchers to Fabricate Custom Optics Equipment in House

Just as the power of the open-source design has driven down the cost of software to the point that it is accessible to most people, open-source hardware makes it possible to drive down the cost of doing experimental science and expand access to everyone.

28 Mar 2013

Metascreen Invisibility Cloak Holds Potential to Advance Biomedical and Optical Instrumentation

Up until now, the invisibility cloaks put forward by scientists have been fairly bulky contraptions – an obvious flaw for those interested in Harry Potter-style applications.

26 Mar 2013

ChromaGen Lenses Help Improve Reading Speed in People with Dyslexia

Words that move from left to right or up and down, words that are blurry or come in and out of focus or words that appear to float on the page, seeing double words or double sentences, re-reading the same lines -- these are some of the reading difficulties that students at the Brighton School recently described.

22 Mar 2013

OSINO Specialty Lenses Compatible with Smart Phone Cameras

Smartphones are fast becoming one of the most popular cameras in the world. This is due in part to the image quality of their built-in camera and the wide array of photo software available.

22 Mar 2013

Aurrion’s Breakthrough Lasers to be Demonstrated at Optical Fiber Communications Conference

Aurrion, Inc., a world leader in silicon photonics and pioneer in photonic heterogeneous integration, will present a recent breakthrough demonstration of lasers, for both telecom and datacom applications, monolithically integrated with silicon photonic circuits on March 21, 2013 as part of the post deadline session at the Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference in Anaheim, California.

21 Mar 2013

NASA Practices Placement of Primary Mirror Segments on James Webb Space Telescope

NASA engineers and scientists have been making practice runs to ensure the placement of primary mirror segments on the James Webb Space Telescope go perfectly when the flight equipment is ready. NASA issued a video and photos showing the practice run in the giant clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

21 Mar 2013

US Air Force Successfully Launched Lockheed Martin-Built Infrared Surveillance Satellite

The U.S. Air Force’s second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, was successfully launched today at 5:21 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

20 Mar 2013

Avago Technologies Announces New Additions to Atlas Optical Engine Product Family

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for wireless, wireline, and industrial applications, today introduced four new sets of Atlas Optical Engine 12-channel parallel optics transmitter and receiver modules, the 12.5G and 14G MiniPOD™ modules and the 12.5G and 14G MicroPOD™ modules.

19 Mar 2013

TriQuint Introduces New Transimpedance Amplifier Line for High-Performance Optical Networks

TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc., a leading RF products manufacturer and foundry services provider, has expanded its optical infrastructure portfolio with five new transimpedance amplifiers (TIA), enabling the company to now serve both transmit and receive portions of high performance optical networks.

From Qorvo, Inc 19 Mar 2013

Low-Cost Approach to Improve MEH-PPV Polymer’s Ability to Confine Light

Researchers from North Carolina State University have come up with a low-cost way to enhance a polymer called MEH-PPV's ability to confine light, advancing efforts to use the material to convert electricity into laser light for use in photonic devices.

19 Mar 2013