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Point Grey Introduces Machine Vision Camera with CCD Technology and USB 3.0 Interface

Point Grey, a world-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative, high-performance digital cameras, today announced its latest innovation in imaging with the Grasshopper3, the world’s first machine vision camera family to combine CCD technology with a USB 3.0 interface.

7 Mar 2013

Photonics Forum Provides Key Technology Information on New VDMA Website

The Photonics Forum within the German Engineering Federation (VerbandDeutscherMaschinen- und Anlagenbau – VDMA) – the theme-based affiliation of seven VDMA photonics-related professional sectors – appears in its own information platform in the new digital network of the VDMA my.VDMA.org.

5 Mar 2013

DSI Introduces Enhanced Capability to Manufacture Patterned Optical Filters

Deposition Sciences, Inc. (DSI®), manufacturer of highly durable thin film optical coatings, introduces an enhanced capability to manufacture patterned optical filters. DSI has increased its capacity and resolution with the introduction of a new photolithography production line capable of patterning 200 mm diameter wafers.

From Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI) 5 Mar 2013

Graphene Holds Potential for Light Harvesting Technologies

Bottles, packaging, furniture, car parts... all made of plastic. Today we find it difficult to imagine our lives without this key material that revolutionized technology over the last century. There is wide-spread optimism in the scientific community that graphene will provide similar paradigm shifting advances in the decades to come.

27 Feb 2013

New Ultraviolet Beam Viewer from Newport

Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in laser and photonic solutions that Make, Manage, and Measure Light®, introduces an ultraviolet (UV) beam viewer, the UVU-2A.

From Newport Corporation 27 Feb 2013

Kickstarter Campaign for Mobile IMAGOphotour

The camera IMAGO1:1 is the largest walk-in camera in the world. Invented and built in the 1970s, in Munich, the IMAGO1:1 is unique. After many journeys and shows it found its final home in 2011 at the Aufbau Haus at Moritzplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg (Germany). The venerable camera would not survive the rigors of yet more journeys.

25 Feb 2013

Vuzix to Showcase M100 Smart Glasses at 2013 ShowStoppers Event

Vuzix Corporation's M100 Smart Glasses will be making their European debut during the showstoppers media event on Sunday, February 24th. Mobile industry participants and gadgeteers can test out the world's first smart 'hands free' display and communications system for on the go data access, paired to their smartphone and connected to the Internet.

22 Feb 2013

CEA-Leti to Coordinate Photonic Libraries and Technology for Manufacturing Project

CEA-Leti today announced that it will coordinate a four-year project aimed at building a European-based supply chain in silicon photonics and speeding industrialization of the technology.

21 Feb 2013

Researchers Explore Atomic-Scale Transformations in Photosynthesis Using Ultrabright X-Ray Laser

Opening a new window on the way plants generate the oxygen we breathe, researchers used an X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to simultaneously look at the structure and chemical behavior of a natural catalyst involved in photosynthesis for the first time.

16 Feb 2013

TAG Optics Receives Prism Award for Ultra High-Speed Variable Focus Device

TAG Optics Inc. is pleased to announce that its ultra high-speed variable focus device, the TAG Lens 2.0, has been selected as this year's Prism Award winner in the category of Optics and Optical Components. This prestigious international industry award is presented each year by SPIE (the International Society for Optics and Photonics) and Photonics Media to the best new innovations marketed in the preceding year as judged by a large panel of industry experts and key opinion leaders.

14 Feb 2013

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