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Mitsubishi Electric Creates Prototype Car Display System with Innovative Optical Engine

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today that it has developed a prototype car display system with an optical engine that can project images on curved, oval or triangular screens to suit a wide range of car interiors.

8 Feb 2013

Non-Linear Optics Researcher Earns NSF CAREER Award

A Johns Hopkins engineer who is developing a high-speed imaging system designed to enable researchers to continuously record images at a rate of more than 100 million frames per second – 100 times more rapidly than current technology allows – has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, a five-year, $400,000 grant.

8 Feb 2013

Researchers Create Light-Emitting Triangular Structures

For the first time, scientists have created single layers of a naturally occurring rare mineral called tungstenite, or WS2.

7 Feb 2013

New Way to Lock Structural Color

Iridescence, or sheen that shifts color depending on your viewing angle, is pretty in peacock feathers. But it's been a nuisance for engineers trying to mimic the birds' unique color mechanism to make high-resolution, reflective, color display screens.

7 Feb 2013

ITT Exelis successfully completed an optical fabrication contract for the University of Rochester’s Lab for Laser Energetics.

7 Feb 2013

James Webb Space Telescope Marks Another Year of Significant Progress

The James Webb Space Telescope marked another year of significant progress in 2012 as flight instrumentation was completed and delivered to NASA.

6 Feb 2013

NKT Photonics to Supply Fiber Amplifier Module for Coherent Sub-Nanosecond Pulsed Laser

NKT Photonics, the pioneer of photonic crystal fibers, and Coherent, Inc., a world leader in lasers and laser systems for commercial and scientific markets, today announced that NKT Photonics will supply a high-power fiber amplifier module for use in Coherent’s newly released Daytona sub-nanosecond pulsed laser, targeted at various micro-electronics applications.

From NKT Photonics A/S 6 Feb 2013

BMC Debuts Reflective Optical Chopper at Photonics West

Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC), a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products and adaptive optics systems, today introduced here at Photonics West the Reflective Optical Chopper (ROC). Designed to out-perform the traditional optical chopper, the ROC offers greater frequency range and a faster chopping speed without the need to alter the beam size.

From Boston Micromachines Corporation 5 Feb 2013

CIPA Commences CP+2013 Camera & Photo Imaging Show in Yokohama, Japan

The Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) commenced its CP+2013 Camera & Photo Imaging Show, a comprehensive camera and photo imaging show, on January 31st in Yokohama, Japan. The event will be held for four days until February 3rd, 2013. More new products are introduced at CP+ than at any other imaging trade show in the world, and imaging technology is considered one of Japan's last manufacturing strongholds.

4 Feb 2013

Hamamatsu Photonics Releases Faster Back-Thinned Electron Multiplying CCD Sensor Camera

Hamamatsu Photonics has released the ImagEM X2, a new electron multiplying (EM) CCD camera with even faster speed than previous ImagEM cameras. The ImagEM X2, a completely redesigned camera featuring a back-thinned EM-CCD sensor, offers maximum speed and precision performance for low-light imaging.

From Hamamatsu Corporation 4 Feb 2013