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New 20-Element Photodiode from Opto Diode - For Electron Detection and Bolometry Applications

Opto Diode, a division of ITW, and a member of the ITW Photonics Group, announces the second in the AXUV series of multi-element photodiodes. The new 20-element AXUV20ELG features a 22-pin, dual in-line package with 100 percent internal quantum efficiency (QE).

From Opto Diode Corp. 11 Jul 2013

New System Pits Light Waves Against Light Waves

There are several ways to “trap” a beam of light — usually with mirrors, other reflective surfaces, or high-tech materials such as photonic crystals. But now researchers at MIT have discovered a new method to trap light that could find a wide variety of applications.

11 Jul 2013

Precision Optics Joins Photonics Online Web Community

Precision Optics Corporation, Inc. (the "Company") announces that it has joined the Photonics Online business-to-business e-commerce platform (www.photonicsonline.com), a web community serving the optics and photonics industry since 1997 by providing technical information about the laser, optics, optoelectronics, fiber optics and imaging industries.

From Precision Optics Corp - Poc 11 Jul 2013

iWatt’s New 8-Channel LED Backlight Driver Improves Screen Performance in LCD TVs

iWatt Inc., a leading provider of digital-centric power management integrated circuits (ICs), today debuted its new 8-channel LED backlight driver designed to deliver better screen performance and lower cost in next-generation 2D and 3D LCD TVs.

10 Jul 2013

Custom Engineered and Fabricated Sapphire Viewport Windows from Meller Optics

Custom engineered and fabricated sapphire viewport windows that can be metalized, brazed and sealed into Kovar® and stainless steel sleeves are available from Meller Optics, Inc. of Providence, Rhode Island.

From Meller Optics, Inc. 10 Jul 2013

GE Ventures Invests in Development of Pentalum Technologies’ Wind LiDAR Systems

Pentalum Technologies, which develops the SpiDAR, a cost effective wind Light Detection and Ranging system (LiDAR) for remote sensing of wind, announced today that it has received a strategic investment from GE Ventures, the investment arm of GE one of the world's leading suppliers of wind turbines.

10 Jul 2013

NXP Semiconductors Announces New Chip-On-Glass LCD Segment Drivers for VA Displays

NXP Semiconductors N.V. today announced two new chip-on-glass (COG) LCD segment drivers – the PCF8538 and PCA8538 – specifically designed for driving vertical alignment (VA) displays. Providing high contrast, true black background, a wide viewing angle, and excellent image quality even at extreme temperatures, VA displays offer many advantages, but typically require a higher LCD supply voltage and higher frame frequency compared to conventional twisted nematic (TN) displays.

From NXP Semiconductors 10 Jul 2013

BiOptix Offers Low Cost Surface Plasmon Resonance Services on 404pi Platform

BiOptix formally announces a unique to the industry research collaboration with the Biophysics Shared Resource Core Facility at the University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus.

9 Jul 2013

Researchers Develop Optical Equivalent of Electrical Transistors

Light can oscillate in different directions, as we can see in the 3D cinema: Each lens of the glasses only allows light of a particular oscillation direction to pass through. However, changing the polarization direction of light without a large part of it being lost is difficult.

9 Jul 2013

Infra-Red Cameras and EEG Enable Simultaneous Monitoring of Eye Movement and Brain Activity

Latest advances in capturing data on brain activity and eye movement are being combined to open up a host of ‘mindreading’ possibilities for the future. These include the potential development of a system that can detect when drivers are in danger of falling asleep at the wheel.

9 Jul 2013

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